
Howdie-Skelp
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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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- 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
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