Maurice Riordan

Maurice Riordan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, translator, and editor.

Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, his poetry collections include: 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 was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award;^[1] The Holy Land (2007) which contains a sequence of Idylls or prose poems. It received the Michael Hartnett Award.^[2]

Riordan was educated in St. Colman's College, Fermoy, University College Cork and McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.^{[citation needed]} In 2004 he was selected as one of the Poetry Society's 'Next Generation' poets.^[3] He was Poetry Editor of Poetry London from 2005 to 2009 ^[4] and Editor of The Poetry Review from 2013 to 2017.^[5]

Riordan has worked as an anthology editor and literary translator in addition to writing. His collection for children The Moon Has Written You a Poem is adapted from the Portuguese of José Jorge Letria.^[6] He has taught at Goldsmiths College and at Imperial College and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University. He lives in London.^{[citation needed]}