Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

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.