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...might not seem impressive given that Muldoon has already published a book based on the interviews....
...I may have qualified as a Master of Wine and have been immersed in wine professionally since 1975 but I’d never style myself an “expert”....
...“We’d like to see the majority of that go to share buybacks — their power when you’re trading this cheaply is enormous.”...
...I’d already consulted the schemataof the necropolis so was able to inch past the pyramids,then make my way through thorn forests,the arid patches, grassy plains . . ....
...were written without any belief that they’d ever find a publisher....
...What poem do you wish you’d written? “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell [1621-1678]. Who are your literary influences?...
...So I thought I’d have a go at two Oedipus plays.”...
...I’d love to live the simple life. Who are you literary influences? Robert Louis Stevenson, Ted Hughes and Rudyard Kipling. What are you most proud of writing?...
...Or I’d be a crane-driver. Giles Foden’s latest book is ‘Turbulence’ (Faber)...
...JP Donleavy (when I was a kid), Harold Pinter, Nikolai Gogol and Paul Muldoon. What does it mean to be a writer? It’s a toss up between anxiety and bliss....
...I came because someone asked me if I’d teach here. I lived in New York for a few months and wrote a couple of poems that reflected something of the day-to-day life....
...“We’d go and visit him and you’d feel sad for him because there was real intelligence, just buried very deep. He was my youngest brother. He died in 1974. It was a great sadness.”...
...Often I’d crawl out of bed still stuck in the first stage and stay like that all day. If you can’t sleep, a GP will tell you to cut out coffee, alcohol, late-night meals....
...Demos Phaidon ₤39.95, 352 pages Does for photography what Phaidon’s Vitamin P did for painting and Vitamin D for drawing....
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