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 his most recent, The Water Stealer (2013)
Maurice Riordan was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Co. Eliot Prize, as was his most recent, The Water Stealer (2013). Floods (2000) was a Book of the Year in both the Sunday Times and Irish Times, and The Holy Land (2007) won the Michael Hartnett Award. He lives in London and has taught at Imperial College and Goldsmiths College, and is currently Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University. Series: Faber Poetry.
He is also the translator of Maltese poet Immanuel Mifsud’s Confidential Reports (2005) and Portuguese poet José Letria’s The Moon Has Written You a Poem (2005), a collection for children
A Quark for Mister Mark includes poems, old and new, whose subject is science - its discoveries, its . I guess I failed the test. This collection of "101 poems about science" is dull. I have a collection of poetry and I have a live long interest in science.
A Quark for Mister Mark includes poems, old and new, whose subject is science - its discoveries, its processes - but also poems which look at the world with an inherently scientific gaze, whether before Copernicus or after Einstein. I cannot believe this is the best that this gets. We should be inspired, intrigued, entranced, enlightened. Maybe the names Riordan and Turney are just creations of the . ver. that selected these poems.
Wonderfully poetic responses to science, some direct, some more oblique. The variety is almost as impressive as the universe itself, while some of the poems explain theories which in science books are impossible to grasp, whether you're a science boffin or not. This collection leaves you with a great sense of wonder and astonishment. Find similar books Profile. Science promises great things in the new century, and no doubt poets will continue to engage with new as well as old science. from the Introduction.
His anthologies include A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science (2000), a collaboration with Jon Turney, an anthology of ecological poems Wild Reckoning . A Quark for Mister Mark (with Jon Turney), Faber 2000.
He has translated the work of Maltese poet Immanuel Mifsud. Wild Reckoning (with John Burnside), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2004. The Best of Irish Poetry (with Colm Breathnach), Southword 2006.
A Quark for Mister Mark (Faber Poetry). In a wonderfully eclectic and lively selection of poems, this anthology counters the notion that science and poetry are magnetically opposed.
Bibliographic Details. Title: A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems About. Publisher: Faber & Faber. Publication Date: 2000. Book Condition: Good. Synopsis: This title includes poems both old and new, focusing on science, its discoveries and processes, and also of poems which look at the world with an inherently scientific gaze, whether before Copernicus or after Einstein. About the Author: Maurice Riordan was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Co. Cork
He is the author of A Word from the Loki (1995) and Floods (2000). A third book of poems, The Holy Land, was published in 2007 and won the 2007 Michael Hartnett Award for Poetry, while The Water Stealer appeared in 2013 and was shortlisted for the . Critical perspective.
His most recent collection, The Water Stealer (Faber, 2015), was shortlisted for the . Eliot Prize; he was previously shortlisted for A Word from the Loki (1995). Floods (2000) was a Book of the Year in both the Sunday Times and Irish Times. His selection of poems by Hart Crane was published in Faber’s ‘Poet to Poet’ series in 2008.
Jon Turney, Maurice Riordan. One of three hypothetical components of elementary particles - The Concise Oxford Dictionary. The model of the two cultures has collapsed
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