Thursday 27 February, 6 for 6.30pm
Room 9130, Cantor Building, City Campus
Born in Lisgoold, Co Cork, Maurice Riordan has published four collections of poems. He has been nominated twice for the T S Eliot Prize, most recently for The Water Stealer (Faber, 2013). His previous book, The Holy Land, received the Michael Hartnett Award in 2007. He has also edited several anthologies with a scientific interest, including Dark Matter: Poems of Space (2008) with the astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell. An anthology of early Irish lyrics in translation, The Finest Music, will be published by Faber later this year. He is the editor of Poetry Review and has been Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University since 2009.
Places are free and include light refreshments, but must be booked in advance.