Selected poems, 19682014, gathering five poems apiece from his 12 major collections, offers the clearest condensation of that history to date. Paul muldoon was born in county armagh, northern ireland, in 1951. Join us for a reading with paul muldoon, the most significant englishlanguage poet born since the second world war. A major figure in englishlanguage poetry for decades, paul muldoon has enjoyed one of the most successful careers of his generation. Yet the books jacket flap reveals that the paintings title is the dividing road. Selected poems 19682014 offers fortysix years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso michael hofmann. Hailed by seamus heaney as one of the eras true originals, paul muldoon seems determined to escape definition, yet this volume, compiled by the poet himself, serves as an indispensable introduction to his. When these precocious lines appeared in his 1973 debut new weather, the irish poet paul muldoon was 21, a student at queens university in belfast, and generally too selfdeprecating, too generalizationaverse, for such brash pronouncements. The times literary supplement selected poems 19682014 offers fortysix. Muldoon challenged himself to work within tight poetic forms such as haiku, sestina, and sonnet. Milkweed and monarch as he knelt by the grave of his mother. Muldoon is an acknowledged admirer of john donne and has edited his selected poems.
Gathering mushrooms the rain comes flapping through the. Selected poems 19682014 is a compact, powerful book, filled with catharses you didnt know you needed. Paul muldoon s ninth collection of poems, his first since hay 1998, finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, appleheavy county armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought. Here, as he draws from numerous previous collections, including moy sand and gravel, which won the pulitzer prize, muldoon displays the full range of his voice, which. Paul muldoon is one of irelands most outstanding contemporary poets, and one of the most admired englishlanguage poets anywhere in the world. Phenomenal woman, still i rise, the road not taken, if you forget me, dreams paul muldoon poems poems of paul muldoon poem hunter. Most of muldoon s collections contain shorter poems with an inclusion of. Muldoon s poems have been collected into three books, selected poems 19681986 1986, new selected poems. In muldoon s more recent book, moy sand and gravel, he offers a shorter sequence of endrimed, 575, haikulike poems called news headlines from the homer noble farm.
His first collection was published when he was still an undergraduate at queens university, belfast. Jonathan kendall interviews poet paul muldoon about his recently released paul muldoon. Hailed by seamus heaney as one of the eras true originals, paul muldoon seems determined to escape definition, yet this volume, compiled by the poet. Npr best books of 2016 selected poems 19682014 is a compact, powerful book, filled with catharses you didnt know you needed. If you are inquiring about the possibility of booking a poetry reading, seminar, or lecture by paul muldoon, or an appearance by rogue oliphant, please use the form, below. Selected poems 19682014 offers fortyfive years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso michael hofmann. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father a farm laborer and market gardener. His first collection of poems, new weather, was published in 1973, while he was still at university. Paul muldoon farrar, straus and giroux farrar, straus and giroux. Hailed by seamus heaney as one of the eras true originals, paul muldoon seems. Muldoons poems have been collected into four books, selected poems 19681986 1986, new selected poems. Paul muldoon poems milkweed and monarch as he knelt by the grave of his mother. Tls fellow poet michael dickman will introduce his colleague.
The most significant englishlanguage poet born since the second world war. He worked for the bbc in belfast until 1986, before taking up a writers residency at cambridge. Muldoons poems have been collected into four books, selected poems. Pbs special commendation autumn 2016 a thrilling new selection of paul muldoons poetry, drawn from over four decades and twelve individual collections. Paul muldoon poetry touch simply kept what i try to do is to go into a poem and one writes them, of course, poem by poem to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where its going to end up. He read english at queens university, belfast, where he was taught by seamus heaney. He studied at queens university, belfast, and has worked for bbc belfast as a radio and television producer. Famously, muldoon s schoolteacher sent on a batch of his poems to seamus heaney allegedly. What i do initially, if ive finished a book, okay so theres a clean slate, theres nothing there. Well i dont really think much about that at all, actually.
Hedgehog the snail moves like a hovercraft, held up by. He is the author of a number of poetry collections, including new. His most recent book of poetry is selected poems 19682014 farrar, straus and giroux, 2016. Paul muldoon was born in 1951 in portadown, county armagh, and was raised near. Read more an englishman, an irishman and a scotsman. He was born into a catholic family in 1951 in a predominantly protestant region of portadown, county armagh. Muldoon is the author of thirteen major collections of poetry, including frolic and detour 2019, one thousand things worth knowing 2015, maggot 2010, horse latitudes 2006, moy sand and gravel 2002, hay 1998, the annals of chile 1994, madoc. The cover of paul muldoon s selected poems 19682014 shows a typically irish pastoral scene. Some of muldoons poetry explored elaborate imaginary encounters between historical figures, including one between lord byron and thomas jefferson. Paul muldoon was born in 1951 in portadown, county armagh, and was raised near the moy, in northern ireland. Paul muldoon takes traditional verse formssonnets, sestinas, ballads, pantoumsand retools them, as if they were engine parts, for his own purposes. Paul muldoon poems poems of paul muldoon poem hunter. Hailed by seamus heaney as one of the eras true originals, paul muldoon the most significant englishlanguage poet born since the second world war.
Muldoon was first awarded the 1990 guggenheim fellowship. Juni 1951 in portadown ist ein nordirischer dichter. He held the post of oxford professor of poetry, 1999 2004. Kevin higgins, paul muldoon and david wheatley john mcauliffe on song of songs 2. You have to be on your toes with paul muldoon and his recent poems make raidings in all sorts of places and his natural element is eclecticism. Hailed by seamus heaney as one of the eras true originals, paul muldoon seems determined to escape definition, yet this volume, chosen by the poet. In paul muldoons curiously timely poetry, identities are always fluid and allegiances always partial. Eliot prize for his collection the annals of chile, and the 1997 irish times irish literature prize for poetry for his new selected poems 19681994. Muldoon has published over 30 collections, and has won a pulitzer prize in poetry and a t. His poetry is known for his difficult, sly, allusive style, casual use of obscure or archaic words, understated wit, punning, and deft technique in meter and slant rhyme. His book moy sand and gravel won both the pulitzer prize for poetry and the international griffin poetry prize, and his collection horse latitudes was shortlisted for the ts eliot prize. Paul muldoon has been described by the times literary supplement as the most significant englishlanguage poet born since the second world war. Selected poems 19682014 by paul muldoon, paperback.
Following this, he was awarded the 1992 geoffrey faber memorial prize for his collection madoc. Muldoons genius for implication is evident in the outstanding long poems, including last years dirty data, but also in short lyrics, such as the title poem of his 2002 pulitzer prizewinner, moy. Selected poems 19682014 kindle edition by muldoon, paul. Hailed by seamus heaney as one of the eras true originals, paul muldoon seems determined to escape definition, yet this volume, compiled by the poet himself, serves as an indispensable introduction to his trademark combination of intellectual hijinks and emotional honesty. Muldoons poems have been collected into four books, selected poems 1968 1986 1986, new selected poems. Hes a riddler, enigmatic, distrustful of appearances, generous in allusion. Dwight garner, the new york times paul muldoon s selected poems 19682014 demonstrates why he has long been regarded as one of the most significant poets of the past fifty years. Paul muldoon selected poems 19682016 the poetry book society. On the subject of poems being together in volumes, how do you think about structuring the volumes of your poems.
But sinead morrisseys selected poems, parallax, opens a new gap for irish poets to occupy. He has published over thirty collections and won a pulitzer prize for poetry and the t. An irish poetespecially one from the northcan languish under the pressures of her predecessors like seamus heaney, paul muldoon, and eavan boland. In september 2007 he was hired as poetry editor of the new yorker and is president of the british poetry society uk. Paul muldoon was born in portadown, county armagh, in 1951. This debt is made explicit in the poem brazil where he refers to the bracelet of shampoo about the bone, echoing donnes a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. Review of paul muldoon selected poems 19682014 ardmayle. The times literary supplement selected poems 19682014 offers fortysix years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso michael hofmann. Paul muldoon s selected poems 19682014 farrar, straus and giroux demonstrates why he has long been regarded as one of the most significant poets of the past 50 years. Paul muldoons selected poems 19682014 demonstrates why he has long been regarded as one of the most significant poets of the past fifty years.