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Paul Muldoon and Paul Farley discuss Louis MacNeice

Paul Muldoon and Paul Farley discuss Louis MacNeice

Paul Muldoon is a former Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (1999-2004), currently Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University and, according to the New Criterion, 'the most influential poet after Seamus Heaney.' He is also Poetry Editor of The New Yorker, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters He has published over thirty collections of poetry and won both the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Paul Farley has published five poetry books and a Selected Poems with Picador: The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award and a Forward Prize in 1998); The Ice Age (winner of the 2002 Whitbread Poetry Prize, and a Poetry Book Society Choice); Tramp in Flames (which was short-listed for the International Griffin Poetry Prize in 2007 and the T. S. Eliot Prize); and The Dark Film. His book, Edgelands, a non-fiction journey into England's overlooked wilderness (co-authored with Michael Symmons Roberts) was published by Jonathan Cape in 2011; it received the Royal Society of Literature's Jerwood Award, the Foyles Best Book of Ideas 2012 and was serialised as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. His most recent collection, The Mizzy (2019), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Book Awards.