Selected Poems by Maurice Riordan #foliosociety ‘Sexual infidelity is unavoidable

‘Sexual infidelity is unavoidable

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Selected Poems by Maurice Riordan #foliosociety ‘Sexual infidelity is unavoidableJack 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 his 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 in