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The Water Stealer
Maurice Riordan
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Description for The Water Stealer
Paperback. Includes poems that report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. This title concludes with 'The Pilgrim' - that hovers eerily 'in patrol of the edges', wherever they may be located. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 90.
These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether situated in the quiet lanes of his native Co Cork or amid the bustle of his adopted London, Riordan's poems exist between many states, poised at once in the grip of both activity and stillness, concerned with speaking and listening to what he hauntingly describes as 'the unwonted quiet'. There are tributes to the departed and the living, the befriended and the estranged; there are also conversations with poets, in ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571303137
SKU
9780571303137
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Ref
99-1
About Maurice Riordan
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. Floods (2000) was a Book of the Year in both the Sunday Times and Irish Times. The Holy Land (2007) won the Michael Hartnett Award. He lives in London and has taught at ... Read more
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