Madoc (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Muldoon
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Prose poem, Elegy
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, History, Philosophy or philosophers, Literature, Mysteries, Ireland or Irish people
Born in 1951 in Northern Ireland, Paul Muldoon has emerged as the freshest and most inventive new voice in Irish poetry in a very long time. Unlike older and better-known poets from the same part of the world, Muldoon’s approach to the civic strife of his native province has been oblique, to the extent that it has been present in his verse at all. Typically, he has preferred to exercise his transformative imagination rather than his ability simply to record. MADOC, his sixth volume of poetry, is his most extravagant and sustained expression of his imaginative powers. Its very daring...
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