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Paul Muldoon: poet, rock guitarist (56)

Paul Muldoon: poet, rock guitarist (56)

I prefer to describe myself as someone who has made a career of trying to write poems. One runs in fear from people who announce themselves to be poets.

We can’t think of it in terms of a conventional career. Someone starts as a train spotter and ends up as a train driver. There’s not any money in poetry.

I work on the principle that if I ...