A study of the later career of the poet Paul Muldoon who left his native Northern Ireland for the United States in 1987 and acquired US citizenship. The volume explores how the move to the US influenced Muldoon's work especially concerning themes of departure and return.
A study of the later career of the poet Paul Muldoon who left his native Northern Ireland for the United States in 1987 and acquired US citizenship. The volume explores how the move to the US influenced Muldoon's work especially concerning themes of departure and return.
Alex Alonso is Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He completed his doctoral thesis at the University of York in 2017. He has essays published or forthcoming in Essays in Criticism, Victorian Poetry, and A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature (Wiley-Blackwell), and is the British Poetry Post-1950 reviewer for The Year's Work in English Studies. He was editor of the York-based poetry magazine Eborakon in 2016.
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Introduction: 'To America, I' 1: Explorations in America: Madoc: A Mystery 2: 'Stunt-reading': Muldoon's Lectures 3: 'I fluttered, like an erratum slip': Muldoon's Mistakes 4: 'An overwhelming sense of déjà vu': Muldoon's Rhyming Memory Coda Appendix
