Paul Muldoon

In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the 'durability' of the sonnet is its 'very specific duration'. It is the perfect length for what Dante Gabriel Rossetti described as 'a moment's monument' or William Wordsworth as a 'scanty plot of ground' offering 'brief...

A volume collecting Paul Muldoon's three Ireland Professor of Poetry lectures. Though the three lectures given by Paul Muldoon as Ireland Professor of Poetry focus on three former holders of the chair—John Montague, Michael Longley, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill—they also touch on a dizzying range of topics including David Byrne, Claddagh Records, decapitation, The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, factory...