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Maurice Riordan

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In the electronic age, every nutcase
With a notebook is writing a masterpiece.
They spend their nights locked up in chat rooms
And emerge with red eyes and love poems.

Maurice Riordan

(Ireland, 1953)

Maurice Riordan (born in Lisgoold, Co. Cork in 1953) was educated at University College Cork under the tutelage of Sean Lucey and John Montague. He later emigrated, and continues to live in the United Kingdom, where he is Professor of poetry at Sheffield Hallam University. In addition to writing poetry and teaching creative writing, he is well known for his translations and his work as an edito...

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In the electronic age, every nutcase
With a notebook is writing a masterpiece.
They spend their nights locked up in chat rooms
And emerge with red eyes and love poems.