Selected Poems

Jack Underwood''s selection from Maurice Riordan''s work over the last forty years allows us to rediscover a poet whose musicality, wit and emotional acuity rank him as a leading poet of this and any generation. Responding to the imaginative range of Riordan''s preoccupations, Underwood creates a dynamic arrangement for poems rooted in particularities of time and place, yet enduring in their audacious inventions and pungent ironies. They are compelling in their immediacy, whether they evoke a childhood in rural Co. Cork, describe a remote community that has taken to the treetops to sing, or itemise the novelties and effronteries of aging. Riordan''s work appears here as it demands to be read: as at once contemporary and timeless, vibrant with the anxieties and pleasures of being alive in the here and now.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Riordan, Riordan Maurice
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9780571384990
• ISBN: 978-0-571-38499-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry / poems by individual poets