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Learn more about Adam O’Riordan, one of the most exciting young British poets, and his collection In the Flesh published by Chatto in 2010. Explore his biography, poems, events, and contact details on his official website.
Explore the works of Adam O’Riordan, a poet and novelist who has been praised for his elegant, witty and haunting prose. Find out more about his books, including The Falling Thread, The Burning Ground, In the Flesh and A Herring Famine.
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).
Adam O’Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982. He read English at Oxford and in 2008 became Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection of poems In the Flesh won a Somerset Maugham Award, his second A Herring Famine was followed by a critically acclaimed collection of short stories The ...
Adam O’Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982. He read English at Oxford and in 2008 became Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism.
About the Author. After receiving his degree from Oxford University, Adam O’Riordan became the youngest poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust. His poetry collection In the Flesh won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2011, awarded to the best writer under the age of thirty-five.
11 lis 2021 · Adam O’Riordan’s debut novel, The Falling Thread, is a delicious portrait of three siblings of the Wright family from 1890 to 1913 as they negotiate a world of privilege and power in Manchester. Born into a world rich in cash, culture and patriotism, the eldest sibling Charles is on holiday from his studies at Cambridge.
