Book description
'To say that [Fivemiletown] was one of the best books of the
Eighties isn't enough: it is one of the best books I know, or for that
matter, am capable of imagining: a corrosive and uproarious litany of
bad sex, bad politics and bad religion.' Michael Hofmann
Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was
educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published eight
collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major
anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works,
including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style and,
most recently, Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent. His most
recent collection of poems is The Road to Inver (2004). Well known for
his appearances on the BBC's Newsnight Review, he is also the G. M.
Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.
