Maurice Riordan was born in Lisgoold, County Cork, in 1953, and is a poet, translator, editor and tutor. He has published three collections of poetry: A Word from the Loki (1995), a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; Floods (2000) which took a more millennial tone, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award and The Holy Land (2007) which returns to Riordan's Irish roots more directly than his earlier work. The T S Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land a deluge The Holy Land ( Arabic: الأرض المقدسة al-Arḍ ul-Muqaddasah;Ancient Aramaic: ארעא קדישא Ar'a Qaddisha; Hebrew: ארץ_הקודש
He is a prolific editor and his anthologies include A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science (2000), a collaboration with Jon Turney, an anthology of ecological poems Wild Reckoning (2004) and edited with John Burnside.
He has translated the work of Maltese poet Immanuel Mifsud as His Confidential Reports (2005). Immanuel Mifsud (born September 12, 1967) is a writer of poetry and prose born in Paola Malta. In the same year he released a collection for children entitled, The Moon Has Written You a Poem, adapted from the Portuguese of José Letria.
In 2004 he was selected as one of the Poetry Society's 'Next Generation' poets and in 2005, he became Poetry Editor of Poetry London. Poetry London is a London-based literary periodical As Poetry London A Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism it was founded by Tambimuttu in
Maurice Riordan has taught creative writing at Goldsmiths College and currently teaches this discipline at Imperial College and Sheffield Hallam University as well as working with amateur poets through the Arvon Foundation and The Poetry School. For the Memphis department store see Goldsmith's. For other uses of the term "Goldsmiths" see Goldsmith (disambiguation. Imperial College London (officially The Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine as given in its Royal Charter It is one of only three universities to have reached Sheffield Hallam University ( SHU) is a Higher Education institution based in the South Yorkshire city of Sheffield, England The Arvon Foundation is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which promotes Creative writing. He lives in South London.
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