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Moy Sand and Gravel is a poetry collection published in 2002 by the Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon. The collection's title references a quarry located near his childhood home in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The poems within the volume frequently explore themes of geographic displacement, histo...
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Pulitzer and Griffin winner praised for virtuosity, elegy, humor, and formal invention, despite characteristic obscurity and wordplay.
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"The Annals of Chile" is a 1994 poetry collection by Irish poet Paul Muldoon. The volume won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry. The poems within weave together deeply personal elegies, including the long sequence "Yarrow," with broader political and historica...
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T.S. Eliot Prize winner containing major elegies, acclaimed for emotional depth, formal daring, and linguistic inventiveness.
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"Quoof" is a poetry collection published in 1983 by the Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon. The title refers to a private family word for a hot water bottle, reflecting Muldoon's ongoing interest in linguistic inventiveness and personal history. The collection features notable poems such as "Why Brown...
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Signature Muldoon volume celebrated for linguistic play, strangeness, memory, and technical command, though intentionally elusive.
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Why Brownlee Left is a poetry collection published in 1980 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon. The collection showcases Muldoon's signature style, blending playful complexity, formal mastery, and narrative ambiguity. Many of the poems draw heavily on his rural upbringing...
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Highly regarded early Muldoon collection showing elliptical narrative skill, tonal agility, and an already distinctive poetic intelligence.
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'Horse Latitudes' is a poetry collection published in 2006 by Paul Muldoon, a Northern Irish poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2003. The book is structured around a central sequence of sonnets, each named after a battle site associated with the American Civil War, with the poems arranged...
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Well-reviewed collection connecting personal loss and war through intricate forms; some critics found its cleverness constricting.
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Madoc: A Mystery is a book-length poetry collection by Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon, published in 1990. The work constructs an alternate history in which Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey carry out their actual historical plan to establish a utopian community called Panti...
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Vast, ingenious alternate-history experiment admired for ambition and erudition, but frequently criticized as forbiddingly obscure and exhausting.
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