Paul Muldoon

Howdie-Skelp (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEK

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 Paul Muldoon's striking 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 translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an 'affront' to good taste. Paul Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture, but to hold our attention.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571365753
• Artikelnr.: 61762466

Autorenporträt

Paul Muldoon is the author of thirteen previous collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 2003 Griffin Prize, the 2015 Pigott Prize, and the 2017 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in County Armagh in 1951, he has lived since 1987 in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Wagtail
American Standard
A Ruin
Shoot 'Em Up
Damsons
Bramleys, Not Grenadiers
23 Banned Poems
The Dirty Protest
A Postcard from Saint Bart's
Mayday
Anonymous: The Vikings
Clegs and Midges
The Fly
The Pangolin, Or Vasty
The Ice Fishers
Binge
Cow Moose, Route 125, Ripton, Vermont
Chipmunk
The Triumph
Salonica
The Banisters
The Sheet
Le Jongleur
An Item
Oscar Wilde at the Pavilion Hotel
Viral
A Bull
Plaguey Hill
Acknowledgments

Rezensionen

Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel envious, out of breath, punch-drunk. Kit Fan Guardian