Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon (born 20 July 1951 in Portadown ) is a Northern Irish poet. He was from 1999 to 2004 Oxford Professor of Poetry and won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Life and work
He studied at Queen's University of Belfast, including Seamus Heaney, and then there was also a lecturer. Then he worked until 1986 when the British Broadcasting Corporation in Belfast.
In 1987 he moved to the United States and taught at Columbia University and Princeton University, where he is Professor of Humanities and Creative Writing today. Since 2007 he is also director of the Lyric departments of New York. Muldoon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also wrote and wrote lyrics for Warren Zevon, The Handsome Family and the rock band Rackett, where he is also a guitarist.
Since the seventies, he regularly publishes books of poetry, for which he was awarded several prizes. Besides Heaney he considered the most important contemporary Northern Irish poets. He writes both short and long narrative poems, and used in addition to traditional forms such as ballad or sonnet and experimental. His poetry can be both playful and serious and embraces a diversity of subjects, from personal about political to historical. It is known for its wealth of puns, allusions and conceits.
Muldoon is married to the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz and has two children.