List of Northern Irish writers Oxford Professor of Poetry Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Postmodernism Read full biography of Paul Muldoon →
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being... →
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as... →
The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes... →
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense... →
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
I do a lot of readings.
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.
I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
List of Northern Irish writers Oxford Professor of Poetry Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Postmodernism