Moy Sand and Gravel
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Moy Sand and Gravel

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Moy Sand and Gravel

About this book

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY 2003

Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, where he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bull, Ted Hughes, an otter, a fox, Mr and Mrs Stanley Joscelyne, an unearthed pit pony, a loaf of bread, an outhouse, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde, or a flock of redknots. At the heart of the book is an elegy for a miscarried child, and that elegiac tone predominates, particularly in the elegant remaking of Yeats's 'A Prayer for My Daughter' with which the book concludes, where a welter of traffic signs and slogans, along with the spirits of admen, hardware storekeepers, flim-flammers, fixers and other forebears, are borne along by a hurricane-swollen canal, and private grief coincides with some of the gravest matter of our age.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9780571263899
Edition
0
Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Hard Drive
  7. Unapproved Road
  8. Moy Sand and Gravel
  9. The Misfits
  10. The Braggart
  11. The Whinny
  12. A Collegelands Catechism
  13. Beagles
  14. Tell
  15. Guns and Butter
  16. One Last Draw of the Pipe
  17. Caedmon’s Hymn
  18. Paul Valéry: Pomegranates
  19. Pineapples and Pomegranates
  20. Winter Wheat
  21. Herm
  22. Whitethorns
  23. Affairs of State
  24. The Otter
  25. John Luke: The Fox
  26. Anthony Green: The Second Marriage
  27. As
  28. The Stoic
  29. Famous First Words
  30. The Grand Conversation
  31. On
  32. An Old Pit Pony
  33. Summer Coal
  34. The Loaf
  35. The Outhouse
  36. News Headlines from the Homer Noble Farm
  37. The Killdeer
  38. Horace: Two Odes
  39. Eugenio Montale: The Eel
  40. When Aifric and I Put In at that Little Creek
  41. The Ancestor
  42. Homesickness
  43. Two Stabs at Oscar
  44. The Breather
  45. The Goose
  46. A Brief Discourse on Decommissioning
  47. The Turn
  48. Redknots
  49. Redknots
  50. At the Sign of the Black Horse, September 1999
  51. About the Author
  52. Copyright