Howdie-Skelp
Published on 2. November 2021
144 pages
978-0-571-36575-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-36575-3 (9780571365753)
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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
- Cowmoose, 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
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
