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...He is a joy, right from the first few pages, apologising to friends for answering their letters late, offering thoughtful advice to fellow poets, from Seamus Deane to the young Paul Muldoon, to whom he writes...
...But humans, I’m delighted to report, are able to detect up to one trillion aromas, many of them extremely subtle....
...Revenue fell 30 per cent to £375mn, hitting the lowest level since at least 2015, including just £80mn from M&A advice....
...“If a thing ain’t nailed down, I’m stealing it. I don’t even know why,” she writes....
...“I’m Tony Reilly,” Walken begins in voiceover. “I’m dead.” And we’re off. So begins a tale of two farms and two families. One are the Reillys, Tony’s oddball son Anthony played by Jamie Dornan....
...Now I’ve followed those trademark red triangles on beer matsto a sawdust ring where nightly I’m forcedto set all four paws on an upturned tub and hold my balance....
...“If a client is not comfortable doing something, I’m not going to be driven by a compensation incentive,” she says....
...Cecilia Muldoon, a Mexican ballet dancer and wine-taster, is pioneering the science....
...He is currently professor of poetry at the University of Sheffield and also Oxford professor of poetry, joining Auden, Graves, Heaney and Muldoon in an illustrious list....
...Paul Muldoon’s latest poetry collection is ‘The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics’ (Faber)...
...I’m my own perfect reader. What books are currently on your bedside table?...
...“I’m no linguist,” he grumbles. The tale of a wild princess of Colchis who murders her two children in order to spite her husband Jason has never lost its shock value....
...I’m building myself a sort of a library at the bottom of the garden, where I’ll write eventually. What is the strangest thing you’ve done when researching a book?...
...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 don’t know what I’m doing when I embark on a poem,” he says, disarmingly. “I don’t have any intentions....
...I’m kind of domestic, untidily so.” Paulin smiles often, particularly at himself, but his conversation about almost anything but literature has to be coaxed....
...In September, a little more than a month after lunching with the FT, Paul Muldoon became poetry editor for The New Yorker, the most widely read showcase for poetry in the US....
...HORSE LATITUDES by Paul Muldoon Faber ₤14.99, 107 pages The 10th collection from the former Oxford professor of poetry, now a Princeton don, looks at things sacrificed or lost to the momentum of life -...
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