An Evening with Paul Muldoon

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An Evening with Paul Muldoon

Thursday December 18, 730-930pm
The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX

We are delighted to present Paul Muldoon: "The most significant English language poet born since the Second World War" (Times Literary Supplement)

For 40 years Paul Muldoon has been an innovative and leading voice in English language poetry. He was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973-1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the BBC. Since 1987 he has lived in the US, where he is now Howard GB Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts.

From 1999-2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Since 2007 he has served as poetry editor of The New Yorker. Paul's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Horse Latitudes (2006), Maggot (2010) and One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015).
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Paul Muldoon was elected a Member of the American Academy in Arts and Letters in 2008. Among his recent awards are the 1994 TS Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the 2003 International Griffin Prize, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, and the 2004 Shakespeare Prize given ‘for contributions from English-speaking Europe to the European cultural heritage.’

With music from Dominic Williams

Tickets £5/£3

The Bluecoat
School Lane
Liverpool
L1 3BX

0151 702 5324

Price: £5.00 / £3.00

Time: 7:30pm