Muldoon, Paul

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Born: Jun 20, 1951 AD
Currently alive, at 58 years of age.

Nationality: Irish
Categories: Poets, Writers


1951 - Paul Muldoon, born on the 20th of June in Portadown, Co Armagh, SE Northern Ireland, UK. He is a poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

1973 - 1998 - His works include New Weather, Selected Poems, Madoc: A Mystery, and Hay: Poems.

1986 - He has also edited a controversial anthology, Contemporary Irish Poetry.

1987 - He teaches at Princeton University and is an Honorary Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews.

1994 - Won the T. S. Eliot Prize.

1997 - Won the Irish Times Poetry Prize.

1999 - 2004 - He held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University for the five-year term, and he is an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.

2002 - His Moy Sand and Gravel received the Pulitzer poetry prize the following year.

2003 - Awarded by the Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry.

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