Book description
New Weather was Paul Muldoon's first book of poems. When it
appeared in 1973, Seamus Heaney described its author as 'unusually
gifted, endowed with an individual sense of rhythm, a natural and
copious vocabulary, a technical accomplishment and an intellectual
boldness that mark him as the most promising poet to appear in Ireland
for years.' While the promise has been amply fulfilled, New Weather
gives the poet's many, more recent admirers the opportunity to see
what a versatile and substantial artist he was from the outset.
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English at
Queen's University, Belfast, and published his first collection of
poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry,
including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry, and Horse Latitudes (2006). Since 1987 he has lived in
the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the
Humanities at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2004 he was Professor
of Poetry at Oxford University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and
Letters award in 1996. Other recent awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot
Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin Prize.
