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The Pulitzer Prizewinning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection.

A howdie-skelp is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action.

The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon's new collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a heroic crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an affront to good taste. Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture but to command our attention.

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    A Hardback by Paul Muldoon

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 16 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9780374602956
      978-0374602956
      ISBN-10 0374602956

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Pulitzer Prizewinning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection.

      A howdie-skelp is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action.

      The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon's new collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a heroic crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an affront to good taste. Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture but to command our attention.

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