Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

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.