Keynote Address: Paul Muldoon
Go Fish: Six Irish Poets
Thursday 25th March at 8.30pm (€18/14/12)
Enigmatic, innovative and always
exhilarating, Paul Muldoon has
performed on a poetic high wire for
over thirty years. The variety and
ingenuity of his work - through poetry,
essays, song lyrics and more - attest to
a restless imagination and to a rigorous
intellect; Muldoon never conforms
and constantly transforms, so that, as
The New York Times Book Review has
observed, he commits “serial crimes
against the conventions of poetry”.
He is the author of ten collections of poetry, one of which Moy Sand and Gravel, (Faber, 2002), won him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. He is also Founding Chair of Princeton’s acclaimed Lewis Center for the Arts. From 1999 to 2004, Muldoon was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, and the fifteen lectures delivered by him during that tenure were published in 2006 as The End of the Poem (Faber), hailed upon its publication as one of the most thrilling and enjoyable books of literary criticism to appear in many years.
Since 2007, Muldoon has been poetry editor of The New Yorker. With Rackett, meanwhile, a self-described “three-car garage rock band”, he has performed and written lyrics since 2004 - also getting the hang of a 1952 Telecaster along the way.
Tonight, Paul Muldoon will present what promises to be a characteristically playful and idiosyncratic consideration of poems by six Irish poets, looking at “The Guttural Muse” and “Limbo,” by Seamus Heaney, “Sunday Morning” by Louis MacNeice, W.R. Rodgers’s “The Net,” John Montague’s “The Trout”, Medbh McGuckian’s “The Flower Master” and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill’s “The Shannon Estuary Welcomes the Fish”. Paul Muldoon will read from his poetry on Saturday, March 27th, at 8.30pm. Paul Muldoon THE IRISH TIMES Poetry Now Award 2010
Paul Muldoon will read from his
poetry on Saturday, March 27th,
at 8.30pm.