Maurice Riordan has published two collections of poetry, A Word from the Loki (1995) and Floods (2000) - and is co-editor of two anthologies, A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science (2001) and Wild Reckoning: an anthology provoked by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (2004). He teaches creative writing at Imperial College London.
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