Irish Poet Paul Muldoon at the New Hampshire Book Festival on Saturday, October 5

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Ireland's accomplished poet, musician and professor Paul Muldoon is appearing at the New Hampshire Book Festival in Concord, NH on Saturday, October 5, 2024 where he reads from his new work, Joy In Service on Rue Tagore, his 15th published book.  

The reading takes place at at 9 a.m. at Capitol Center. for the Arts at 44 S. Main Street and is free to the public.  Muldoon is being introduced by Jennifer Militello, New Hampshire's Poet Laureate.


The Irish Times called Muldoon's new book, "a densely allusive book, as one might expect, that makes of its breadth of reference a carousel ride through epochs, touchstone poems and themes, with characteristic colour, brio and aplomb."

The New Hampshire Book Festival is an annual statewide book festival that brings authors together with readers to celebrate literacy, conversation, and community. This festival hosts 40+ nationally recognized authors for a free, all-day festival of panels, interviews, and book signings in New Hampshire’s historic capital city, Concord. Read more details here.

Here is a full schedule of the 2024 New Hampshire Book Festival, and a lineup of authors appearing this year. 

Born in County Armagh in 1951, Muldoon lives in New York and has  taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2003.  

Among his awards, according to his bio, are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize,  the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

For year round info on Irish cultural activities in New England, visit IrishMassachusetts.com. 




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