by Paul Muldoon
New Weather
Mules
Why Brownlee Left
Quoof
Meeting the British
Selected Poems 1968–1983
Madoc: A Mystery
The Annals of Chile
New Selected Poems 1968–1994
Hay
Bandanna
Poems 1968–1998
Moy Sand and Gravel
Horse Latitudes
Maggot
The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
PROSE
To Ireland I: An Abecedary of Irish Literature
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry
EDITOR
Contemporary Irish Poetry
The Faber Book of Beasts
Lord Byron: Selected Poems
John Donne: Selected Poems
FOR CHILDREN
The Last Thesaurus
The Noctuary of Narcissus Batt
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Muldoon is the author of eleven books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Moy Sand and Gravel (FSG, 2002) and, most recently, Maggot (FSG, 2010). He is the Howard G. B. Clark University Professor at Princeton. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
from NEW WEATHER (1973)
Wind and Tree
Dancers at the Moy
Good Friday, 1971. Driving Westward
Hedgehog
The Year of the Sloes, for Ishi
from MULES (1977)
Ned Skinner
Ma
The Mixed Marriage
Duffy’s Circus
Mules
from WHY BROWNLEE LEFT (1980)
The Weepies
Cuba
Anseo
Why Brownlee Left
Truce
from QUOOF (1983)
Gathering Mushrooms
The Sightseers
Quoof
The Frog
The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants
from MEETING THE BRITISH (1987)
The Coney
Meeting the British
Christo’s
The Fox
The Soap-Pig
from MADOC: A MYSTERY (1990)
The Key
Tea
The Panther
Cauliflowers
The Briefcase
from THE ANNALS OF CHILE (1994)
Brazil
The Sonogram
Footling
The Birth
Incantata
from HAY (1998)
Lag
Symposium
Hay
Long Finish
Errata
from MOY SAND AND GRAVEL (2002)
Moy Sand and Gravel
A Collegelands Catechism
The Loaf
Redknots
At the Sign of the Black Horse, September 1999
from HORSE LATITUDES (2006)
At Least They Weren’t Speaking French
The Old Country
It Is What It Is
Turkey Buzzards
Medley for Morin Khur
from MAGGOT (2010)
A Hare at Aldergrove
Lateral
Quail
The Humours of Hakone
Loss of Separation: A Companion
from ONE THOUSAND THINGS WORTH KNOWING (2014)
Cuthbert and the Otters
Pelt
Saffron
Cuba (2)
Dirty Data
Index of Titles
Also by Paul Muldoon
About the Author
Copyright
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Originally published in 2016 by Faber & Faber Limited, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2016
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Muldoon, Paul, author.
Title: Selected poems 1968–2014 / Paul Muldoon.
Description: First American edition.|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.|Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016033242|ISBN 9780374260828 (hardback)|ISBN 9780374715779 (e-book)
Subjects:|BISAC: POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Classification: LCC PR6063.U367 A6 2016b|DDC 821/.914—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016033242
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