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Poetry of Ireland  (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by TerryMcT
on:    29 April 2006

      >> A Poetry Reading by Paul Muldoon
      >> Irish poet and Pulitzer Prize winner
      >> Thursday, April 27, 2006

Well, let's have a little poetry of our own then:

The Avenue
Paul Muldoon

Poems, 1968- 1998
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002

Now that we've come to the end
I've been trying to piece it together,
Not that distance makes anything clearer.
It began in the half-light
While we walked through the dawn chorus
After a party that lasted all night,
With the blackbird, the wood-pigeon,
The song-thrush taking a bludgeon
To a snail, our taking each other's hand
As if the whole world lay before us.


--- The End ---

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Poetry of Ireland   (Irish poets writing in English)

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