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
england judge last prize published year
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.
best inspire quite teachers
The teachers I had myself, the best of them were quite extraordinary, and really did inspire one into reading, or indeed, writing.
despite key people poetry side
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
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It's an opportunity to do something we've never quite managed before: to get our programs going in the same direction, under the same aegis, under one form of leadership. I think, in many ways, that the focus this will give us is going to allow us all to give the students a much better service.
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I think it's too simple to say that violence equals energy; people have said that along the way. Violence is debilitating as much as anything else.
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The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with
reading people reason
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry
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I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme
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Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time
people frost brilliant
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was
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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 it's going to end up
book writing trying
It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.
years judging lasts
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.
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The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.