The Faber Book of Beasts - Hardcover

Paul Muldoon

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ISBN 10: 0571175988 ISBN 13: 9780571175987

Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1997

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A collection of some of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom, in all its variety, has prompted some of the liveliest and most imaginative writing from the republic of poets, in all its diversity. Among the specimens, common and rare, gathered in Paul Muldoon's literary bestiary, are mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, fishes, crustaceans, and others perhaps more fanciful than real...

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About the Author:

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast, and published his first collection of poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Horse Latitudes (2006). Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 1996. Other recent awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin Prize.

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