Paul Muldoon, New Weather

Ivan Phillips (University of Hertfordshire)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.4: Irish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Paul Delaney (Trinity College Dublin), Anne Markey (Dublin City University), Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin), Sinéad Sturgeon (Queen's University Belfast)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1973

Places

Northern Ireland (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

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Paul Muldoon's first collection of poetry was published when he was only twenty-one years old, an undergraduate student at Queen's University, Belfast. Well-received by reviewers at the time, it has since tended to be characterised as an example of over-excited and premature publication, with John Goodby describing it as “a youthfully promising if slightly rushed debut” and Tim Kendall going further still: “it is obvious in retrospect that Muldoon should have waited longer before publishing his first volume”. Nevertheless, for all its undeniable flaws,

New Weather

remains a remarkable document, rehearsing as it does so many of the tricks, poses, voices and evasions that would come to typify the style of this most distinctive and influential of poets. Considering that many of the…

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Citation: Phillips, Ivan. "New Weather". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 January 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3272, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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