Maurice Riordan: Shoulder Tap [2021] hardback ZPOPS By tuning into and becoming

By tuning into and becoming more aware of the stories we are telling ourselves

More than twelve years in the writing

Swept up in a world of elaborate gowns

conflicted

Maurice Riordan: Shoulder Tap [2021] hardback ZPOPS By tuning into and becomingThroughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first person, there is depth at work where the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves. The effect is thrilling and unpredictable, at once a dark art and an illumination of unease and loss and wishfulness. The collection features disquieting songs of a mutable self alongside poignant elegies, interior journeys and