PAUL MULDOON was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Paul Muldoon is the 1996 recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature. Other awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Literature Price for Poetry, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2004 Aspen Prize for Poetry and the 2004 Shakespeare Prize.
He is the author of numerous books, most recently
Horse Latitudes (poems) and a collection of his Oxford lectures,
The End of the Poem, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC in 2006. Paul Muldoon's other 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), and
Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Paul Muldoon is the Poetry Editor for The New Yorker.
It has been written about Paul Muldoon's poems that they, "remind us of the Elizabethan's definition of wit, a deadly serious from of play that encompassed far more than mere humor, but included originality and ingenuity, particularly in the forging of concise and startingly appropriate phrased to capture the paradoxes of human experience. These paradoxes are at play in many of Muldoon's poems, which will often share classical forms out of the most common street slang, or tackle metaphysical questions with the language of advertising slogan and pop records."
Paul Muldoon writes lyrics for, and plays the guitar with, the musical rock group RACKETT.
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