Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon
</gallery> Paul Muldoonis an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He has also served as president of the Poetry Society and Poetry Editor at The New...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 June 1951
engagement poet edges
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
interesting chance destination
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.
political trying levels
Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level
want chimes
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect
reading
I do a lot of readings.
clarity immediacy accessibility
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
tree way frost
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
born northern-ireland ireland
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987
believe language repetition
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language
people courses
Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry
confusion able make-sense
Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.
hands issues levels
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place
rap jersey here-and-there
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too