Keiran Goddard

Keiran Goddard
Alma materExeter College, Oxford[1]
Occupations
Writing career
LanguageEnglish
Notable works
Websitewww.keirangoddard.com

Keiran Goddard is a novelist, poet and critic from Shard End, Birmingham. He is the author of the novels Hourglass, longlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize, and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, longlisted for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize. He has also published the poetry collections For the Chorus and Votive.[2][3][4][5]

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning was adapted for film by director Clio Barnard from a screenplay by Enda Walsh.[6] Goddard also writes as a critic for The Guardian and The Observer.[7]

Novels

His debut novel, Hourglass, was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize.[8] The novel was praised by Nina Renata Aron in The Los Angeles Times and received a more critical review from Alyssa Songsiridej in the Toronto Star.[9][10]

Goddard's second novel is I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.[11][12] In a review for The Guardian, Barney Norris called it "a multivocal narrative focusing on a working-class community in Birmingham."[13] Kirkus Reviews praised the book's "extraordinary writing", but noted "[the five narrators] seem uncommonly reflective and articulate, even when drunk or stoned or suicidal."[14] The novel was published internationally and nominated for the Gordon Burn Prize.[15]

It is also being adapted for film[16] by Enda Walsh and Clio Barnard for BBC Film. It will star Daryl McCormack, Joe Cole, Lola Petticrew, Anthony Boyle, Jay Lycurgo, Millie Brady and Lucie Shorthouse.[17]

Other writing

Goddard writes regularly for The Guardian and The Observer.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "'Evocative, ecstatic, and saturated with off-killed wit'. Keiran Goddard (2002, English) publishes Hourglass". Exeter College, Oxford. 15 February 2022. Retrieved 21 April 2026.
  2. ↑ "Keiran Goddard". Hachette UK. 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2026-04-21.
  3. ↑ "Bio | Keiran Goddard Writer". Keiran Goddard. Retrieved 2026-04-21.
  4. ↑ "Introducing the Desmond Elliott Prize longlist 2022". National Centre for Writing | NCW. Retrieved 2026-04-21.
  5. ↑ Vickers, Carys (2024-12-10). "Longlist announced for Gordon Burn Prize 2025". New Writing North. Retrieved 2026-04-21.
  6. ↑ Ritman, Alex (2025-04-04). "Clio Barnard Sets Next Feature 'I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning,' Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew to Star (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2026-04-21.
  7. ↑ Ritman, Alex (2025-04-04). "Clio Barnard Sets Next Feature 'I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning,' Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew to Star (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  8. ↑ "Introducing the Desmond Elliott Prize longlist 2022". National Centre for Writing | NCW. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  9. ↑ Aron, Nina Renata (2023-02-14). "A debut novel's funny Valentine to love in all its icky absurdity". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  10. ↑ Songsiridej, Alyssa (2023-04-02). "The Shortlist: Novels about love". The Toronto Star. pp. T10. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  11. ↑ Norris, Barney (2024-02-22). "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning by Keiran Goddard review – growing up and apart". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  12. ↑ "An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2025-06-09. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
  13. ↑ Norris, Barney (2024-02-24). "Growing up and apart: A tragedy severs five friends from their past". The Guardian. p. 52. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  14. ↑ I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING | Kirkus Reviews.
  15. ↑ Vickers, Carys (2024-12-10). "Longlist announced for Gordon Burn Prize 2025". New Writing North. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  16. ↑ "Screen Daily".
  17. ↑ Ritman, Alex (2025-04-04). "Clio Barnard Sets Next Feature 'I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning,' Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew to Star (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  18. ↑ Goddard, Keiran (2025-03-06). "Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
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