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Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon was born in Co Armagh in 1951.
His main works are
New Weather (London: Faber & Faber, 1973); Mules (Faber & Faber and Winston-Salem,
North Carolina, Wake Forest University Press, 1977); Immram (Dublin, Gallery Press, 1980); Why Brownlee Left
(London: Faber/Wake Forest, 1980) ;
Out of Siberia
(Gallery Press, 1982); Quoof (Faber/Wake Forest, 1983); Mules & Early Poems ( Wake Forest, 1985); The Wishbone (Gallery Books, 1984); Selected Poems 1968-1983
(Faber, 1986/New York: Ecco Press, 1987); Meeting The British (Faber/Wake Forest, 1987); Madoc: A Mystery
(Faber, 1990); The Prince of The Quotidian (Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 1994); The Annals of Chile
(Faber/New York, Farrar Strauss, 1994); New Selected Poems 1968-1994 (Faber, 1996);
Kerry Slides (Gallery Press, 1996) with photographs by Bill Doyle; Hay (Faber, 1998);
Bandanna (Faber, 1999); Moy Sand and Gravel (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Faber and Faber, 2002), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (2003); and Horse Latitudes (Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).
He has translated The Astrakhan Cloak by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Gallery Press, 1992) from Irish, and has edited
The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (Faber & Faber, 1986); and The Faber Book of Beasts
(Faber, 1997).
His books for children include The Last Thesaurus
(Faber, 1995) with illustrations by Rodney Rigby; and he has composed an opera libretto, Shining Brow
(Faber, 1993), music composed by Daron Hagen.
He lives and teaches in Princeton.
