Picnics and poetry with Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor at Princeton university Paul Muldoon also performs with a rock band and is about to tour Ireland with a live sketch show, writes Sara Keating
‘I am a man of great influence, and educated to a high degree . . . I’ll sit you down and I will fill your can. And along the street all the friends I meet, Say “There goes Muldoon, he’s a solid man.” It is the rousing chorus from this popular music hall number of the 19th century that first caught the poet Paul Muldoon’s ear.
It led him down a path which ...