Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED 1ST EDITION)

Muldoon, Paul

ISBN 10: 0571365744 / ISBN 13: 9780571365746

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2021

About this Item

Pages clean and bright, boards and binding tidy, some shelf wear to dust jacket with some small chipping to the laminate on the jacket front, 'Signed Copy' sticker on jacket. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 86290

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED 1ST EDITION)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571365744
• ISBN 13: 9780571365746
• Binding: Hard
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed

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Synopsis

A 'howdie-skelp' is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Paul Muldoon's striking new collection include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land , an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the pandemic, a translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an 'affront' to good taste. Paul Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture, but to hold our attention. A 'howdie-skelp' is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Paul Muldoon's striking new collection include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land , an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the pandemic, a translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an 'affront' to good taste. Paul Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture, but to hold our attention.