Floods

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 poems: childhood memories of rural Ireland and poems of irretrievable loss nuanced with the restorative intimation that time's arrow is not, perhaps, relentlessly linear. Zusammenfassung 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 poems: childhood memories of rural Ireland and poems of irretrievable loss nuanced with the restorative intimation that time's arrow is not, perhaps, relentlessly linear.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Maurice Riordan, Riordan Maurice
• Edition: Faber & Faber
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 18.09.2000
• EAN: 9780571204625
• ISBN: 978-0-571-20462-5
• Pages: 64
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 199 mm x 7 mm
• Thème: Faber Plays
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre > Poésie; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; POETRY / General, Childhood; Landscape; Rural