Paul Muldoon
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Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish writer.
He has published more than thirty collections and won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
From 1999 to 2004, he served as Oxford Professor of Poetry.
He is both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities and the Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Performing Arts at Princeton University.
He has worked as president of the Poetry Society (UK) and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker as well.
Life and work
Muldoon was born in County Armagh, one of three children, just north of The Moyne, near the border with County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. His father worked as a farmer (among other occupations), and his mother was a school mistress.In 2001, Muldoon said of the Moy:
"I'm amazed to learn that, outside of some Catholic Truth Society pamphlets and some books on saints, there are, in effect, no books in the house, except for one set, the Junior World Encyclopaedia, which I'm sure read again and again." It could be, I presume, that it would be in my interest in a variety of arcane aspects of information. "I was self-educated" at some point. From the beginning, he was a "trues poet."
Muldoon studied English at Queen's University Belfast, where he met Seamus Heaney and became close to the Belfast Group of poets, which included Michael Longley, Ciarán Carson, Medbh McGuckian, and Frank Ormsby. "I think it was really important, especially to me," Muldoon said of the experience. It was exciting. "I was 19, 20 years old, and at university, so everything was exciting, really." Muldoon was not a good student at Queen's. "I had stopped." He recalls. I should have been able to leave early, but I should have figured it out. About halfway through, I'd basically lost interest. Not because there weren't many people teaching me, but because I'd stopped going to lectures, I'd rather do the right thing than doing the right thing, rather than hanging around." Faber and Faber introduced New Weather, his first collection during his time at Queens. He married Anne-Marie Conway, a fellow student, in 1973, and they were married. In 1977, the couple's marriage broke down.
Muldoon worked as an arts producer for Belfast's BBC from 1973 to 1986. He produced the collections Why Brownlee Left (1980) and Quoof (1983), marking the most difficult period of the Troubles. After leaving the BBC, he taught English and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and at Caius College and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where his students included Lee Hall (Billy Elliot) and Giles Foden (Last King of Scotland). Muldoon emigrated to the United States in 1987, where he has lectured on Princeton's creative writing program. He served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1999 to 2004, and is Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
Muldoon is married to novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz, who attended an Arvon writing course. Dorothy and Asher, two children, are married and live mainly in New York City.