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

Posted on June 20, 2026 by sheila

“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 →

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Happy Birthday, Paul Muldoon

Posted on June 20, 2015 by sheila

“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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Paul Muldoon: “Curse the Pope of Rome”

Posted on October 29, 2003 by sheila

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 →

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