{"product_id":"books-howdie-skelp-by-paul-muldoon","title":"Howdie-Skelp","description":"SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEK  The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph).  'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel envious, out of breath, punch-drunk.' Kit Fan, Guardian  A 'howdie-skelp' is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Paul Muldoon's striking new collection include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, a translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an 'affront' to good taste. Paul Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture, but to hold our attention.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53506225144081,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780571365784.jpg?v=1778107796","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-howdie-skelp-by-paul-muldoon","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}