What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.

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.