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.
Selected Poetry 
Dog Poems 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Poems of the Dead and Undead (Everyman Pocket Poets) 
Gift of the Old One 
Soemps 
Tales from Acorn Wood: Three lift-the-flap stories: Postman Bear / Hide-and-Seek Pig / Rabbit's Nap 
Negative of a Group Photograph 
Being Alive 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
In Memoriam 
Selected Poems 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one