From the Horse's Mouth: The Other Paul Muldoon

Seamus Heaney once stated that Paul Muldoon has 'achieved the poetic equivalent of walking on air'.2 Muldoon emerges from Heaney 's essay as an exemplary figure leading a new wave of Irish poets who are 'anxious to confine the operations of imaginative writing to a sanitized realm that might include the ludic, the ironic, the parodie, the satiric, the pathetic, the domestic, the elegiac and the self-inculpatory, but which would conscientiously exclude the