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Tag Archives: Paul Muldoon
“I like variety in poetry. I love how it comes in so many guises. As rock lyric, as rap, as note on a fridge.” — Paul Muldoon
“I’m very much against expressing a categorical view of the world. I hope I can continue to discover something, and not to underline or bolster up what I already know.” – Paul Muldoon It’s his birthday today. Like Seamus Heaney … Continue reading
Posted in Books, On This Day, writers
Tagged Belfast, Ireland, Irish poetry, Michael Schmidt, Paul Muldoon, poetry, Seamus Heaney
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Happy Birthday, Paul Muldoon
“This work [Paul Muldoon’s book ‘The Annals of Chile’] gives the impression of coming clean and being clandestine at one and the same time. It is Joycean in its combination of the everyday and the erudite, but it is also … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, Ireland, Irish poetry, Paul Muldoon, poetry
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Paul Muldoon: “Curse the Pope of Rome”
Extended post on Oxblog by Patrick Belton about Paul Muldoon, specifically, and Irish poets in general. I heard Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill read her work at the Ireland House, here in New York. She only writes in Irish. “I can’t hear … Continue reading