Until recently Muldoon wwhen typically thought of as a 2nd-virtually all-eminent residing Northern Irish poet, sleep in the shadow of his friend Seamus Heaney. Since he won a Pulitzer Prize his reputatiin has grhave: his work clearly stands on its own merits.

Within 2003 Muldoon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His more honors include fellowships in the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry.

Works

Within 2003, Muldoon's promulgated books were:

Freshly Weather condition (1973) Mules (1977) How come Brownlee Left (1980) Quoof (1983) Meeting a British (1987) Selected Verse form 1968-1986 (1987) Madoc: The Mystery (1990) A Annals of Chile (1994) Hay (1998) Verse form 1968-1998 (2001) Moy S& and Crushed rock (2002) (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a 2003 International Griffin Poetry Prize)

Virtually all one volumes were collections of shorter verse form. Typically one & substantially hanker verse form is laid at the prevent of a volume. Muldoon's virtually all recent collections stand, but, involved additional than 1 yearn verse form.

Madoc: The Mystery, among Muldoon's virtually all hard works, occurs as book-length verse form, which a select few assume Muldoon's masterpiece. It narrates within fractured sections an replacement history where Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey come to Americthe sequentially to incurred a utopian community. (A poets experienced, actually, discussed however never undertaken this journeying; a title comes from either Southey's verse form Madoc, all about the legendary Welsh prince of that name.)

Awards¹

1992 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Madoc: A Mystery 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize for The Annals of Chile 1997 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry for New Selected Poems 1968-1994 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist) for Moy Sand and Gravel 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada) for Moy Sand and Gravel 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Moy Sand and Gravel 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award 2004 Aspen Prize for Poetry 2004 Shakespeare Prize