Our ‘Poem of the Week’, selected by The Poetry Programme, is a reading of the title poem from Paul Muldoon's 1987 collection ‘Meeting the British’, about an early instance of germ warfare against members of the Ottawa tribe of North America. You can listen below:
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About The Poet: Paul Muldoon has published twelve major collections of poetry, the first, ‘New Weather’, in 1973, when he was still a student at Queen’s University Belfast, and the most recent, ‘One Thousand Things Worth Knowing’, just last year. Faber & Faber have now published a book of sixty ‘Selected Poems 1968-2014’, featuring five poems from each of those twelve collections.
Hear Paul Muldoon on The Poetry Programme with Rick O’Shea on RTÉ Radio at 7:30 pm on Saturday 15 October.
