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| My chooks about to take me for a walk around the front garden. Ginger Rogers is on the right. |
I wouldn’t say I am into one-upmanship and
yet I find myself feeling pleased to be one up on internationally renowned
Irish poet Paul Muldoon. I have three chickens and he only has two. Like
Muldoon I am rediscovering the joys of chicken farming. He talks about this and
his recent collections - of song lyrics - in an interview titled ‘Writing
Songs’ in the current issue of The Moth.
He also says something alarming – that all poets get worse as they get older.
Some of us are getting older yet still trying to get better. There I am
dragging the chain again.
The interview can be accessed online here. The
Moth is a quarterly arts and culture magazine publishing
poetry and prose by Irish and international writers. The Moth also runs the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize
which closes on December 31. The first prize is €10,000 with cash for second and third places.
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I think Muldoon is wrong, look at Pablo Neruda, Hilda Doolittle, William Wordsworth, Adrienne Rich, etc. Does he apply the rule to himself?
ReplyDeleteMind you, it's nice to see he's getting another string to his bow.
Thanks for your comment Robert. I read into it that it could be a concern of his own ... and I see there is more of this in another interview in the New York Observer, 'Between Robert Frost and Bon Jovi: The Many Contradictions of Paul Muldoon' at
Deletehttp://observer.com/2010/09/between-robert-frost-and-bon-jovi-the-many-contradictions-of-paul-muldoon/
Cheers Lizz