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This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures - especially the gesture of apology - becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do they carry for the way power is exercised?

In this new collection Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' -a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument.

When it appeared in 1973, Seamus Heaney described its author as 'unusually gifted, endowed with an individual sense of rhythm, a natural and copious vocabulary, a technical accomplishment and an intellectual boldness that mark him as the most promising poet to appear in Ireland for years'.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection. A "howdie-skelp" is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action.The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon's new collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a tra...

The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph).

The stirring, mindful and deeply humane new collection of poems from Paul Muldoon - now in paperback.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collectionA "howdie-skelp" is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon's new collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a tran...

A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetThough Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. K. Williams, the Irish Rising, the Great War, and how "a streak of ragwort / may yet shine / as an off-the-record ...

A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetThough Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. K. Williams, the Irish Rising, the Great War, and how "a streak of ragwort / may yet shine / as an off-the-record ...

In this volume, poet John Kinsella presents a selection of Paul Muldoon's most linguistically innovative and overtly 'experimental' poems. Kinsella's introduction explores the complex politics of language and the dissection of 'New World'-'Old World' (false) verbal dynamics that inform Muldoon's writing.

An extraordinarily successful collaboration between the Irish poet, Paul Muldoon and the acclaimed Scottish photographer, Norman McBeath, in which there's an uncanny relationship between word and black-and-white image. Although a McBeath photograph (of a statue of Apollo wrapped in polythene) is directly invoked in one poem, much of the success of this beautifully produced book has to do with indirection and evocation. It's as if this book pre...

Poetry. Music. This particular pamphlet is beautifully designed, printed on high-stock paper, with a proper spine and an ultra-cool cover. It features over 16 punk-rock-style song lyrics--zany, witty, brilliant, sometimes startling --by the master poet of songs played by his band, Rogue Oliphant. An album/LP is to follow (not from Eyewear). At a time when the Nobel is recognising the beauty and value of lyrics as a form of literature, here com...

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This cahier presents new work by the celebrated Irish poet Paul Muldoon: four original works and the title series of poems. Interspersed with these are the poet's translations: from Latin, from Old English, from medieval Welsh, from Greek and from Irish. The cahier is completed by drawings and an etching by the Sicilian artist Lanfranco Quadrio.

Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann).

The most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war." -The Times Literary SupplementSelected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-six years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who "began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso" (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as "one of the era's true originals, " Paul Muldoon seems determined to escape definition, yet this volume, compiled by the poet...

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A collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries. A beautifully packaged book suitable for all ages.