Maurice Riordan

The Water Stealer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 128mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 90g
• ISBN-13: 9780571303137
• ISBN-10: 0571303137
• Artikelnr.: 41596761

Autorenporträt

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 The Water Stealer (2013). Floods (2000) was a Book of the Year in both the Sunday Times and the Irish Times, and The Holy Land (2007) won the Michael Hartnett Award. He lives in London, where he has taught at Imperial College and Goldsmiths College. Riordan was Editor of The Poetry Review from 2013 to 2017 and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University.

Rezensionen

This is a strong, wise and enduring work: The Water Stealer shows Riordan coming fully into his own. Aingeal Clare Guardian