{"product_id":"9780571365746-howdie-skelp","title":"Howdie-Skelp","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Paul Muldoon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 184\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA '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, compellingly, our attention.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44459555291355,"sku":"9780571365746","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780571365746_54b72535-cd94-4ce7-b0a8-673a20a72de3.jpg?v=1700554665","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780571365746-howdie-skelp","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}