Poems 1968 to 1998

"Now, some 30 years on, turning to those early poems in this great volume,POEMS 1968-1998 , that initial astonishment is renewed. The grace, the wit, the assurance; the absence of tonal wobble that afflicts most first collections; the sense of enormous resources lightly deployed; the parameters of a recognisable territory deftly sketched out and now firmly established as 'Muldoon country' - all these qualities came together in poems like 'Clonfeacle', 'Kate Whiskey', 'Vespers', 'The Cure for Warts', 'The Kissing Seat' and 'Lives of the Saints'. Take the opening stanza of 'The Waking Father'....Paul Muldoon is a fabulous poet, and Poems 1968-1998 should win him a host of new readers."Muldoon, Paul is the author of 'Poems 1968 to 1998', published 2002 under ISBN 9780374528447 and ISBN 0374528446.