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Adam O’Riordan is one of our most exciting young British poets; his collection In the Flesh was published by Chatto in July 2010.
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Adam O’Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982. He read...
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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). I edited the anthology When Love Speaks (Vintage) and co-edited The Shape of the Dance: the Selected Prose of ...
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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.
Jul 3, 2010 · In Adam O'Riordan's assured debut, a host of subjects – from private moments to everyday objects – are invested with sensuous beauty, writes Kate Kellaway
