For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

During his time at Queens his first collection New Weather was publiPaul Muldoond by Faber and Faber. Suzan Sherman. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe 1997.

He is also the president of the Poetry Society (U. K. ) and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker.