Book description
Paul Muldoon's collection Hay refines, and re-defines, a lyrical
strain in which an ostensible lightness of touch still has the
strength to bear the weightiest subject matter. At once conventional
and cutting edge, beautiful and bleak, Hay is a book that demonstrates
fully the range of Muldoon's poetic intelligence and imagination.
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.
