Howdie-Skelp

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Howdie-Skelp

By: Paul Muldoon

Narrated by: Paul Muldoon

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A 'howdie-skelp' is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Paul Muldoon's striking new collection include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, a translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an 'affront' to good taste. Paul Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture, but to hold, compellingly, our attention.©2021 Paul Muldoon (P)2021 Faber & Faber

Paul MuldoonPaul MuldoonFaber & Faber

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This is something for people with a deep sense of desire to satisfy their brain cells. Stimulating, invigorating and pure pleasure to read but need to warn: it's for intelligent readers.

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