Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is a celebrated Irish poet born in 1951 at a farm outside The Moy in Portadown, County Armagh. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize, published more than thirty collections, and taught at Princeton and Oxford. His childhood home sat beside a parish where the Orange Order was founded, filling summer evenings with drum beats while his mother sheltered the family from local tensions. Muldoon called that borderland his true home decades after leaving it behind.