{"id":8334,"date":"2025-03-14T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8334"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:09:47","slug":"maurice-riordan","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/maurice-riordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Riordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maurie Riordan was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Co. Cork. His first collection, <em>A Word from the Loki\u00a0<\/em>(Faber &amp; Faber, 1995), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Subsequent collections, all published by Faber &amp; Faber, include: <em>Floods\u00a0<\/em>(2000), a Book of the Year in both the <em>Sunday Times <\/em>and <em>Irish Times; The Holy Land <\/em>(2007), which won the Michael Hartnett Award; and <em>The Water Stealer<\/em>, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2013. His latest collection, <em>The Shoulder Tap<\/em> (2021), was shortlisted for the Poetry Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers\u2019 Week; his <em>Selected Poems<\/em>, chosen by Jack Underwood, was published in 2025. He lives in London, where he has taught at Imperial College and Goldsmiths College. Riordan was Editor of <em>The Poetry Review<\/em> from 2013 to 2017 and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurie Riordan was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Co. Cork. His first collection, A Word from the Loki\u00a0(Faber &amp; Faber, 1995), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Subsequent collections, all published by Faber &amp; Faber, include: Floods\u00a0(2000), a Book of the Year in both the Sunday Times and Irish Times; The Holy Land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8643,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8334","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}