The most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war. -The Times Literary
SupplementSelected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-six years of work drawn from twelve individual
collections by a poet who began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso (Michael
Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as one of the era's true originals Paul Muldoon seems
determined to escape definition yet this volume compiled by the poet himself serves as an
indispensable introduction to his trademark combination of intellectual hijinks and emotional
honesty. Among his many honors are the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Shakespeare Prize for
contributions from English-speaking Europe to the European inheritance. Among contemporaries
Paul Muldoon one of the great poets of the past hundred years who can be everything in his
poems-word-playful lyrical hilarious melancholy. And angry. Only Yeats before him could
write with such measured fury. -Roger Rosenblatt The New York Times
