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In writing at once intense and wistful, Adam O’Riordan deploys precise imagery and memorable music to poignant effect. His poems, concerned with erasure and the revivifying limits of verse’s charms, span from imaginative encounters with the past – the fear “that a soot fall or change in weather / might sever this link with their past ...
I’m a novelist, short story writer and poet. I’ve published two collections of poetry In the Flesh and A Herring Famine (Chatto & Windus), a collection of stories The Burning Ground and a novel The Falling Thread (Bloomsbury).
20 lis 2021 · In his debut novel, Adam O’Riordan brinngs this world to life through masterful period detail and dexterous description that quickly immerse the reader in the past. Looming over The Falling...
Adam O'Riordan: The tragedians find their modern equivalents in the dark energy and verbal dexterity of the rappers whose work I was drawn to as a teenager, the Wu Tang Clan
1 gru 2021 · O’Riordan’s prose is exquisite, and his tone cool and ironic, while subtly drawing attention to the barriers of class, gender and sexuality. His chiming of nature with period detail is exact:...
19 sty 2017 · Adam O’Riordan. Adam O’Riordan’s first collection of poems, In the Flesh, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. He teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
31 sty 2017 · A poetic of strength renders even the most at-risk body parts viable: I saw the small heart beating like wings unfolding in the body. Here, with this man, ideas of flight return. (“Next to Him”) Like O’Riordan, McCray courts sentiment in his embrace of family crises and almost obsessive focus on his father.
