Howdie-Skelp

Name: Howdie-Skelp
ISBN: 9780571365746

2/5

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

'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 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.

First published: 2021
Publishers: Faber & Faber· Limited
Language: English

About Paul Muldoon

Born in Northern Ireland, Muldoon currently resides in the US and teaches at Princeton University. He held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1999 through 2004. In September 2007, Muldoon became the poetry editor of The New Yorker.Awards: 1992: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Madoc: A Mystery1994: T. S. Eliot Prize for The Annals of Chile1997: Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry for New Selected Poems 1968–19942002: T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist) for Moy Sand and Gravel2003: Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada) for Moy Sand and Gravel2003: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Moy Sand and Gravel2004: American Ireland Fund Literary Award2004: Aspen Prize 2004: Shakespeare Prize...

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