Maurice Riordan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, translator, and editor.
Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, his poetry collections include: A Word from the Loki (1995), a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; Floods (2000) which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award;[1] The Holy Land (2007) which contains a sequence of Idylls or prose poems.
[citation needed] In 2004 he was selected as one of the Poetry Society's 'Next Generation' poets.
[5] Riordan has worked as an anthology editor and literary translator in addition to writing.
His collection for children The Moon Has Written You a Poem is adapted from the Portuguese of José Jorge Letria.