Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the

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. At

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he is currently both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He held the post of

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from 1999 to 2004 and has also served as president of the Poetry Society (UK) and Poetry Editor at ''

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Life and work

Muldoon was born, the eldest of three children, on a farm in

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outside

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, near the boundary with

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, Northern Ireland. His father worked as a farmer (among other jobs) and his mother was a school-mistress. In 2001, Muldoon said of the Moy:

It's a beautiful part of the world. It's still the place that's 'burned into the retina', and although I haven't been back there since I left for university 30 years ago, it's the place I consider to be my home. We were a fairly non-political household; my parents were nationalists, of course, but it was not something, as I recall, that was a major area of discussion. But there were patrols; an army presence; movements of troops; a sectarian divide. And that particular area was a nationalist enclave, while next door was the parish where the
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was founded; we'd hear the drums on summer evenings. But I think my mother, in particular, may have tried to shelter us from it all. Besides, we didn't really socialise a great deal. We were 'blow-ins' – arrivistes – new to the area, and didn't have a lot of connections.''The Guardian'' Profile ''The poet at play''
12 May 2001. Retrieved 27 February 2010.

Talking of his home life, he continues: "I'm astonished to think that, apart from some Catholic Truth Society pamphlets, some books on saints, there were, essentially, no books in the house, except one set, the Junior World Encyclopaedia, which I certainly read again and again. People would say, I suppose, that it might account for my interest in a wide range of arcane bits of information. At some level, I was self-educated." He was a '"Troubles poet" from the beginning. In 1969, Muldoon read English at

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, where he met

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and became close to the Belfast Group of poets which included

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, Medbh McGuckian and Frank Ormsby. Muldoon said of the experience, "I think it was fairly significant, certainly to me. It was exciting. But then I was 19, 20 years old, and at university, so everything was exciting, really." Muldoon was not a strong student at Queen's. He recalls: "I had stopped. Really, I should have dropped out. I'd basically lost interest halfway through. Not because there weren't great people teaching me, but I'd stopped going to lectures, and rather than doing the decent thing, I just hung around". During his time at Queens, his first collection ''New Weather'' was published by

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. He met his first wife, fellow student Anne-Marie Conway, and they were married after their graduation in 1973. Their marriage broke up in 1977. For thirteen years (1973–86), Muldoon worked as an arts producer for the BBC in

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. In this time, which saw the most bitter period of

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, he published the collections ''Why Brownlee Left'' (1980) and ''Quoof'' (1983). After leaving the BBC, he taught English and Creative Writing at the

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and at Caius College and Fitzwilliam College,

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,Cambridge in America: Poetry, Conversation & Irish Whiskey
8 October 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013. where his students included Lee Hall ('' Billy Elliot'') and

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('' Last King of Scotland''). In 1987, Muldoon emigrated to the United States, where he has taught on the creative writing program at

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. He was

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for the five-year term 1999–2004, and is an Honorary Fellow of

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. Muldoon is married to novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz, whom he met at an Arvon writing course. He has two children, Dorothy and Asher, and lives primarily in

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Poetry and other works

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

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. As Peter Davidson says in ''

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'' review of books "Muldoon takes some honest-to-God reading. He's a riddler, enigmatic, distrustful of appearances, generous in allusion, doubtless a dab hand at crossword puzzles"."Darkness at Muldoon"
''The New York Times'' review, 13 October 2002. Accessed 27 February 2010. ''

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'' cites him as being "among the few significant poets of our half-century"; "the most significant English-language poet born since the second world war" – a talent off the map. (Notably,

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was born in 1939.) Muldoon's work is often compared with Heaney, a fellow Northern Irish poet, friend and mentor to Muldoon. Heaney, who won the 1995

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, is slightly better known, sells widely and has enjoyed more popular success. In 2003, Muldoon won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He has been awarded fellowships in the

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and the

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; the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize; the 1997

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Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry. He was also shortlisted for the 2007 Poetry Now Award. Muldoon's poems have been collected into four books: ''Selected Poems 1968–1986'' (1986), ''New Selected Poems: 1968–1994'' (1996), ''Poems 1968–1998'' (2001) and ''Selected Poems 1968–2014'' (2016). In September 2007, he was hired as poetry editor of ''

''. Most of Muldoon's collections contain shorter poems with an inclusion of a long concluding poem. As Muldoon produced more collections, the long poems gradually took up more space in the volume, until in 1990 the poem ''Madoc: A Mystery'' took over the volume of that name, leaving only seven short poems to appear before it. Muldoon has not since published a poem of comparable length, but a new trend is emerging whereby more than one long poem appears in a volume. ''Madoc: A Mystery'', exploring themes of colonisation, is among Muldoon's most difficult works. It includes, as "poetry", such non-literary constructions as maps and geometric diagrams. In the book ''Irish Poetry since 1950'', John Goodby states it is "by common consent, the most complex poem in modern Irish literature .. – a massively ambitious, a historiographical

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". The post-modern poem narrates, in 233 sections (the same number as the number of Native American tribes), an alternative history in which

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and Robert Southey come to America to found a

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community. The two poets had, in reality, discussed but never undertaken this journey. Muldoon's poem is inspired by Southey's work '' Madoc'', about a legendary Welsh prince of that name. Critics are divided over the poem's success. Some are stunned by its scope and many others, such as

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, have professed themselves utterly baffled by it – feeling it to be wilfully obscure. Muldoon says of it: "I quite enjoy having fun. It's part of how it is, and who we are." Muldoon has contributed the librettos for four operas by Daron Hagen: '' Shining Brow'' (1992), ''

Vera of Las Vegas ''Vera of Las Vegas'' is an opera by Daron Hagen with a libretto by Paul Muldoon based on a treatment co-written with the composer. It is Hagen's second opera, after Shining Brow. The Center for Contemporary Opera gave the staged premiere on 25 J ...

'' (1996), '' Bandanna'' (1998), and '' The Antient Concert'' (2005). His interests have not only included libretto, but the rock lyric as well, penning lines for the band

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as well as

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whose title track "My Ride's Here" belongs to a Muldoon collaboration. Muldoon also writes lyrics for (and plays "rudimentary" rhythm guitar in) his own Princeton-based rock bands. Rackett (2004–2010) was disbanded in 2010. Another of Muldoon's bands, Wayside Shrines, has recorded and released thirteen of the lyrics included in Muldoon's collection of rock lyrics, ''Word on the Street''. His current group is known as Rogue Oliphant. Muldoon has also edited a number of anthologies, including ''The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present'' by Paul McCartney, published in 2021, written two children's books, translated the work of other authors, performed live at the

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. and published critical prose.

Awards

Muldoon has won the following major poetry awards: * 1990:

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* 1992: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for ''Madoc: A Mystery'' * 1994:

for ''The Annals of Chile'' * 1997: Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry for ''New Selected Poems 1968–1994'' * 2002:

(shortlist) for ''Moy Sand and Gravel'' * 2003:

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(Canada) for ''Moy Sand and Gravel'' * 2003: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for ''Moy Sand and Gravel'' * 2004: American Ireland Fund Literary Award * 2004: Aspen Prize for Poetry * 2004: Shakespeare Prize * 2009:

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Award for Literary Excellence * 2017: Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Selected honours

* Honorary Professor in the School of English at the

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(Scotland) * Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1999–2004 (England) * Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford University (England) * Fellowship with the

(England) * Fellowship with the

(US) *Awarded an honorary doctorate by

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in 2014 (Ireland)

Bibliography

Poetry

;Collections * ''New Weather'' (1973) Faber & Faber, London * ''Mules'' (1977) Faber & Faber, London / Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, N.C. * ''Why Brownlee Left'' (1980) Faber & Faber, London / Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, N.C. * ''Quoof'' (1983) Faber & Faber, London / Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, N.C. * ''Mules and Early Poems'' (1985) Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, N.C. * ''Selected Poems 1968–1983'' (1986) Faber & Faber, London * ''Selected Poems 1968-1986'' (1987) Ecco Press, New York * ''Meeting the British'' (1987) Faber & Faber, London / Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, N.C. * ''Madoc: A Mystery'' (1990) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York * ''The Annals of Chile'' (1994) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York * ''New Selected Poems: 1968–1994'' (1996) Faber & Faber, London * ''Hay'' (1998) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York * ''Poems 1968–1998'' (2001) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York * ''Moy Sand and Gravel'' (2002) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the

) * ''Horse Latitudes'' (2006) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York (shortlisted for

) * ''Maggot'' (2010) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York (shortlisted for 2011 Poetry Now Award) * ''One Thousand Things Worth Knowing'' (2015) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York * ''Selected Poems 1968–2014'' (2016) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York * ''Frolic and Detour'' (2019) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York * ''Dislocations: The Selected Innovative Poems of Paul Muldoon'' (2020) Liverpool University Press, Liverpool * ''Howdie-Skelp'' (2021) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York ;Limited editions and booklets (poetry, prose and translations) * ''Knowing My Place'' (1971) Ulsterman Publications, Belfast * ''Spirit of Dawn'' (1975) Ulsterman Publications, Belfast * ''Names and Addresses'' (1978) Ulsterman Publications, Belfast * ''Immram'' (1980) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''The O-O's Party, New Year's Eve '' (1980) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''Out of Siberia'' (1982) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''The Wishbone'' (1984) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''The Astrakhan Cloak'' (By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in Irish. Trans Muldoon.) (1992) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''Shining Brow'' (1993) Faber & Faber, London * ''The Prince of the Quotidian'' (1994) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''Incantata'' (1994) Graphic Studio, Dublin * ''Six Honest Serving Men'' (1995) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''Kerry Slides'' (1996) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''The Last Thesaurus'' (1996) Faber & Faber, London * ''The Noctuary of Narcissus Batt'' (1997) Faber & Faber, London * ''The Birds'' (Adaptation after Aristophanes) (1999) Gallery Press, Dublin
''Hopewell Haiku''
(1997) Warwick Press, Easthampton, Massachusetts * ''The Bangle (Slight Return)'' (1998) Typography Press, Princeton, N.J. * ''Bandanna'' (1999) Faber & Faber, London * ''The End of the Poem: 'All Souls Night' by WB Yeats (lecture)'' (2000) Oxford University Press, Oxford * ''Vera of Las Vegas'' (2001) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''Unapproved Road'' (2002) Pied Oxen Press, Hopewell, N.J. * ''Medley for Morin Khur'' (2005) Enitharmon Press, London * ''Sixty Instant Messages to Tom Moore'' (2005) Modern Haiku Press, Lincoln, Illinois * ''General Admission'' (2006) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''I Might Make Out With You'' (2006) Lori Bookstein, New York * ''The Fifty Minute Mermaid " (By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in Irish. Trans Muldoon.) (2007) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''When the Pie was Opened'' (2008) Sylph Editions, Lewes, East Sussex * ''Plan B'' (2009) Enitharmon Press, London * ''Wayside Shrines'' (2009) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''Feet of Clay'' (2011) Four Candles Press, Oxford * ''Epithalamium'' (2011) Emanon Press, Princeton, NJ * ''Songs and Sonnets'' (2012) Enitharmon Press, London * ''The Word on the Street'' (2013) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York * ''At Sixes and Sevens'' (2013) Stoney Road Press, Dublin * ''Encheiresin Naturae'' (2015) Nawakun Press, Santa Rosa, CA * ''Rising to the Rising'' (2016) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''I Gave The Pope A Rhino'' (2017) Fine Poetry Press, Manchester (Illustrated b
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2017) * ''Superior Aloeswood'' (2017) Enitharmon Press, London * ''Lamentations'' (2017) Gallery Press, Dublin * ''Sadie and the Sadists'' (2017) Eyewear Publishing, London * ''The Dead, 1904'' (2018) Gallery Press, Dublin ;Anthologies (edited) * ''The Scrake of Dawn: Poems by Young People from Northern Ireland''. Ed.(1979) * ''Contemporary Irish Poetry : An Anthology''. Ed. by Anthony Bradley (1980) * ''The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry''. Ed. (1986) * ''The Faber Book of Beasts''. Ed. (1997) * ''The Oxford and Cambridge May Anthologies 2000: Poetry''. Ed. (2000) * '' The Best American Poetry 2005''. (Ed. with David Lehman) (2005)

Criticism, book reviews and other contributions

* * ''To Ireland, I'' (Clarendon Lectures of 1998) (2000) Oxford University Press, London * ''The End of the Poem (Oxford Lectures)'' (2006) Faber & Faber, London / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York

Interviews, critical studies and reviews of Muldoon's work

* Alonso, Alex, ''Paul Muldoon in America: Transatlantic Formations''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. * Holdridge, Jeff. ''The Poetry of Paul Muldoon.'' Dublin: Liffey Press, 2009. * * Kendall, Tim. ''Paul Muldoon.'' Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1996. * Randolph, Jody Allen. "Paul Muldoon, December 2009." ''Close to the Next Moment.'' Manchester: Carcanet, 2010. * Redmond, John. "Interview with Paul Muldoon." ''Thumbscrew'' 4 Spring 1996. * Sherman, Susan. "Yusef Komunyakaa and Paul Muldoon nterview" ''Bomb'' 65 Fall 1998. * Wills, Clair. ''Reading Paul Muldoon.'' Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1997.

References

External links

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Paul Muldoon discusses poetry with Wunderkammer Magazine
17 January 2011 (Video, 20 mins)
Paul Muldoon reads "Wulf and Eadwacer"
from ''The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation'' (audio)
Paul Muldoon at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2010: "The Borderline"
(Audio)

Accessed 2010-02-27
Profile at Poets.orgPoetry Archive biography (U.K.)
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''The Guardian'' article – Extended interview with Muldoon and analysis ''The poet at play'' 12 May 2001
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Poetry Society essays on Muldoon
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with

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, March 2008. Accessed 2010-02-27
Griffin Poetry Prize biography
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Paul Muldoon papers, 1939-2016
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