Maurice Riordan

{{short description|Irish poet, translator, and editor (born 1953)}}

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Maurice Riordan

| birth_date = 1953

| birth_place = Lisgoold, County Cork, Ireland

| occupation = Poet

| nationality = Irish

| alma_mater = University College Cork

| notableworks = T. S. Eliot Prize; Floods (2000)

}}

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;{{cite web|url=http://www.costabookawards.com/downloads/Past_Shortlists_complete_list.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=17 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020205736/http://www.costabookawards.com/downloads/Past_Shortlists_complete_list.pdf |archive-date=20 October 2007 }} The Holy Land (2007) which contains a sequence of Idylls or prose poems. It received the Michael Hartnett Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.lcc.ie/Arts_Culture/Programmes_Activities/MICHAEL_HARTNETT_POETRY_AWARD_2009.htm |title=Limerick.ie | The Official Guide to Limerick, Ireland |website=Lcc.ie |access-date=2016-04-09}}

Riordan was educated in St. Colman's College, Fermoy, University College Cork and McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} In 2004 he was selected as one of the Poetry Society's 'Next Generation' poets.{{cite web |date=2004-06-04 |title=Next generation poets 2004 | Books | The Guardian |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/nextgenerationpoets/0,,1231558,00.html |access-date=2016-04-09 |website=Books.guardian.co.uk}} He was Poetry Editor of Poetry London from 2005 to 2009 {{cite web |title=Maurice Riordan |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p%3Dauth5689224102ee616122tVlP1BFD08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216053433/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth5689224102ee616122tVlP1BFD08 |archive-date=16 December 2010 |access-date=22 October 2009}} and Editor of The Poetry Review from 2013 to 2017.{{cite web |title=The Poetry Society |url=http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/lib/tmp/cmsfiles/File/13%20press%20release%20riordan%20review.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524073042/http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/lib/tmp/cmsfiles/File/13%20press%20release%20riordan%20review.pdf |archive-date=2013-05-24 |access-date=2016-04-09 |publisher=The Poetry Society}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/r/Riordan_M/life.htm |title=Maurice Riordan |website=Ricorso.net |access-date=2016-04-09}} 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|date=June 2021}}