Description
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 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.
Signs Like This 
Thirteen Poems of Revenge (Introduced by Sophie Hannah) 
One Mole Digging a Hole 
The Handle of the Door 
Milk and Honey 
101 Poems About Childhood 
This Is Yarrow 
Let's Celebrate! 
101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy 
Now and Then 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid