A little cultural interlude now with a conversational interview, from Saturday’s Guardian Review, with Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon referencing, among other things, the focus of his recently published collection of Oxford lectures – The End of the Poem – “the ‘invisible threads’ that connect words and works”, the kindness of fellow poet Seamus Heaney, and the worry of becoming “a sort of a poetry machine”. His website contains a number of recordings of him reading his work at the University of Arizona Poetry Center in 2002, including the superb Meeting the British [mp3 file]
“What matters is that something is captured and is equal to that moment. A bleakness that can meet the bleakness, or a gaiety that can meet the gaiety. But there tends to be less joy than bleakness, alas. It seems that unhappiness is more interesting.”
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