On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

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.