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Floods - Softcover

Maurice Riordan

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9780571204625: Floods
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0571204627 ISBN 13: 9780571204625
Publisher: Faber Faber Inc, 2000

Synopsis

The poems in Maurice Riordan's second collection are unusual in their recourse to the humanist belief in poetry as one of the forms of knowledge, imparting information about the observable world; but they also mix ancient wisdom (signs and wonders) with the open-ended science of the quantum age. Riordan's vision is syncretist. The old and new coexist - interrogating the book's epigraph that 'time is what keeps everything from happening at once' - and this informs his more personal childhood memories of rural Ireland and poems of irretrievable loss nuanced with the restorative intimation that time's arrow is not, perhaps, relentlessly linear.

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About the Author

Maurice Riordan was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Co. Cork. His first collection, A Word from the Loki (1995) was nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize, as was his most recent, The Water Stealer (2013). Floods (2000) was a Book of the Year in both the Sunday Times and Irish Times, and The Holy Land (2007) won the Michael Hartnett Award. He lives in London and has taught at Imperial College and Goldsmiths College, and is currently Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2013 Riordan was appointed Editor of Poetry Review.

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Publisher
Faber Faber Inc
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0571204627
ISBN 13 
9780571204625
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
53
Rating
  • 4.33 out of 5 stars
    9 ratings by Goodreads