Selected Poems by Maurice Riordan Stephen Watts While Walker tries to piece

While Walker tries to piece his life together

the in-between worlds that this poet claims as her territory

      Eternally

we are surrounded by delectable mysteries

argumentative and lyrical

Selected Poems by Maurice Riordan Stephen Watts While Walker tries to pieceJack Underwood's selection from Maurice Riordan's work over the last forty years allows us to rediscover a poet whose musicality, wit and emotional acuity rank him as a leading poet of this and any generation. Responding to the imaginative range of Riordan's preoccupations, Underwood creates a dynamic arrangement for poems rooted in particularities of time and place, yet enduring in their audacious inventions and pungent ironies. They are compelling