Poetry Club: Paul Muldoon And Special Guests

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon—and some very special guests—to celebrate an ever-vital and enthralling verse form: the sonnet.

This autumn, Faber publishes the essential new anthology Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets, edited by Paul Muldoon. This is a collection of beloved classics, hidden treasures and standout contemporary examples of an elastic form. Join us at the Coronet for an evening showcasing some of the very best classic and contemporary sonnets, drawn from a collection that spans poets including Elizabeth Bishop, Wanda Coleman, John Donne, Terrance Hayes, John Keats, Claude McKay, Edna St Vincent Millay, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Patricia Smith and W. B. Yeats, and translations of Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and César Vallejo, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.

Paul Muldoon has won many awards for his poetry including the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Griffin Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in County Armagh in 1951, he has lived since 1987 in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University. In 2022, he was appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry.

Special guests to be announced shortly.