Maurice Riordan Books

The Water Stealer is the fourth collection by Maurice Riordan, a writer of precise searching originality.

In a series of timeless and modern-day renditions, Maurice Riordan brilliantly introduces us to the poems that founded Ireland's rich literature.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEKThroughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves.

Presents a sequence of eighteen dramatic idylls set in rural Cork in the 1950s, in which the subdued microcosm of farm and smallholding - of boundary, townland and parish - is defined through the individual voices of the poet's father and assorted friends, farmhands and neighbours.

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.