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Rope

by Maurice Riordan
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780571401482
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publisher Imprint: Faber & Faber
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 64
  • Original Price: INR 1299.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 130 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Rope presents an alluring and provocative array of insights as it follows a mind on the move, ever curious and restlessly making connections.

Nuggets of wisdom, snippets of anecdote and choice quotations are collected here, signposted by suggestive shoulder notes. Together they form a kind of contemporary commonplace book, accumulating with associative loops and echoes.

Across three prose sections, Maurice Riordan knots together strands including scientific lore, colour theory and AI, philosophy, ethics and psychoanalysis. There are instructive revelations on the art of poetry and literature - whether the 'folly of literary ambition' or the 'sinuous garland of plagiarism' - gleaned from a lifetime of reading and writing. The middle section delves into the author's personal history, evoking a childhood in rural Cork - 'I was born into a horse-drawn candlelit world' - and a 'new self' forged in fatherhood.

Riordan is an intimate and jocular narrator throughout, calling upon everyone from Shakespeare to Schr�dinger, Sappho to Siri to share this series of piquant and unforgettable discoveries.

Riordan, Maurice: - Maurice Riordan was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Co. Cork. His Selected Poems, chosen by Jack Underwood, appeared in 2025 drawing on work published across forty years. A former editor of the Poetry Review, he taught at Imperial College and at Goldsmiths, University of London. He teaches currently for the Faber Academy.

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