List of Northern Irish writers Oxford Professor of Poetry Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Postmodernism Read full biography of Paul Muldoon →
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day... →
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the... →
Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously... →
List of Northern Irish writers Oxford Professor of Poetry Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Postmodernism