Career
lieutenant received the Michael Hartnett Award. He is a prolific editor and 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 (2004) edited with John Burnside, and Dark Matter (2008) edited with astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell. He has also edited a selection of poems by Hart Crane (2008) in Faber"s "Poet to Poet" series.
He has translated the work of Maltese poet Immanuel Mifsud as Confidential Reports (2005).
In the same year he released a collection for children entitled The Moon Has Written You a Poem, adapted from the Portuguese of José Letria. In 2004 he was selected as one of the Poetry Society"s "Next Generation" poets.
He was Poetry Editor of Poetry London from 2005 to 2009. In February 2013, Riordan was appointed Editor of Poetry Review, the United Kingdom"s most widely read poetry magazine.
Maurice Riordan has taught creative writing at Goldsmiths College and at Imperial College and is currently Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University.
He also works with amateur poets through the Arvon Foundation and The Poetry School. He lives in South London.
