
The Ancestor
Paul Muldoon(Author)
The Chinese University Press
Published on 17. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
45 pages
978-962-996-517-4 (ISBN)
Description
Drawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The Ancestor is a chapbook of poetry by Paul Muldoon presented in both English and Chinese. The Ancestor is also available along with the works of other internationally renowned poets in Words and the World (Twenty-volume Set). Selected poems from this volume are featured in the anthology Words and the World: International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-962-996-517-4 (9789629965174)
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Paul Muldoon
Ancestor
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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Paul Muldoon (Ireland) was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, Paul Muldoon was educated in Armagh and at Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. In 2007 he was appointed poetry editor of The New Yorker. Paul Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Horse Latitudes (2006) and Maggot (2010).A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Paul Muldoon was elected a Member of the American Academy in Arts and Letters in 2008. Among his recent awards are the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the 2003 International Griffin Prize, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, and the 2004 Shakespeare Prize given 'for contributions from English-speaking Europe to the European cultural heritage.'