Paul Muldoon: Howdie-Skelp [2021] hardback WWI Roger Casement

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Paul Muldoon: Howdie-Skelp [2021] hardback WWI Roger CasementThe 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, Guardian A '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