Selected Poems by Maurice Riordan #foliosociety

Selected Poems by Maurice Riordan #foliosocietyJack 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 his 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

PaperbackPublication: 1 Feb 2024

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Meat is Murder

But at least

and horror legend

What are the limits of space travel

taken us to the brink of destruction

‘Sexual infidelity is unavoidable

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