Subtitled "A Mystery, this verse narrative collects several poems concerning the so-called "Pantisocracy" (meaning a state ruled equally by all), a utopian scheme devised and later abandoned by the 18th-century poet-philosophers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. What if they had indeed set[...]

From food punnets to credit cards, plastic facilitates every part of our daily lives. It has become central to processes of contemporary socio-material living. Universalised and abstracted, it is often treated as the passive object of political deliberations, or a problematic material demanding huma[...]

A collection of peom that opens with a sonnet sequence, "Horse Latitudes", written as the United States embarked on its foray into Iraq.[...]

In his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W. B. Yeats' remark that the only f[...]

Paul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, head-turning, heartfelt, these poems attempt to bring scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself. One Thousand Things Worth[...]

Nordirländaren Paul Muldoon, född 1951, har i Times Literary Supplement kallats ”den mest karismatiske poeten i Storbrittanien och Irland”. Föreliggande breda urval, hämtat ur alla hans hittills sex diktsamlingar, ger en god uppfattning om spännvidden i hans intellektuellt mångfacetterade,[...]