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.
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Dog Poems 
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes 
Selected Poetry 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Steep Tea 
A Watchful Astronomy 
Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems