Maurie Riordan was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Co. Cork. His first collection, A Word from the Loki (Faber & Faber, 1995), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Subsequent collections, all published by Faber & Faber, include: Floods (2000), a Book of the Year in both the Sunday Times and Irish Times; The Holy Land (2007), which won the Michael...
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