Paul Muldoon’s friend and mentor, the late Seamus Heaney, once remarked that reading Muldoon was like being in a room with two informants: one a compulsive liar and one who always tells the truth. The trick, Heaney suggested, is ‘trying to formulate a question that will elicit an answer from either one that can be reliably decoded’.
Muldoon’s poems are renowned for their sleight of hand, ... (read more)
Anthony Lawrence
Anthony Lawrence’s most recent collection is Ordinary Time, a collaboration with Audrey Molloy, (Pitt Street Poetry, 2021). His books and poems have won a number of awards, including the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the NSW Premier's Award. He lives on the far north coast of New South Wales.