# Howdie-Skelp

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- Book: [Howdie-Skelp](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-muldoon/howdie-skelp) ([Howdie-Skelp.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-muldoon/howdie-skelp.md))
- Authors: [Paul Muldoon](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-muldoon)
- Publisher: Faber AND Faber
- ISBN: 978-05-7136-578-4
- Pages: 184
- Published: 2023-11-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEKThe hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland’s most ingenious poet' (Telegraph).'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel envious, out of breath, punch-drunk.' Kit Fan, GuardianA ‘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 our attention.