POETRY CLUB
ALICE OSWALD & DON PATERSON
POETRY CLUB: A CELEBRATION OF THE SONNET
An essential anthology of beloved classics, hidden treasures and standout contemporary examples of this ever-vital and enthralling verse form
In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the ‘durability’ of the sonnet is its ‘ very specific duration’ It is the perfect length for what Dante Gabriel Rossetti described as ‘ a moment’s monument’ or William Wordsworth as a ‘scanty plot of ground’ offering ‘brief solace’ for those who ‘have felt the weight of too much liberty’. Among the poets included in this centuries-spanning edition are 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 There are Paul Muldoon’s own translations of sonnets by Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, César Vallejo, and a scurrilous collaboration by Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.
PAUL MULDOON
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.
DON PATERSON
Don Paterson is the author of numerous works of poetry and non-fiction; his writing has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, all three Forward Prizes, and the T. S. Eliot Prize on two occasions. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009; he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and for many years taught at the University of St Andrews, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Poetry in the School of English. From 1997 to 2022, Paterson was poetry editor at Picador
ALICE OSWALD
Alice Oswald was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. Revered as a major poet in her native England Oswald’s many honours and awards include the TS Eliot Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, an Eric Gregory Award, an Arts Foundation Award for Poetry, a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and a Ted Hughes Award. In 2019, she became the first woman to be appointed as Oxford University Professor of Poetry, a four-year tenure
Kavanagh, Epic (Muldoon)
Rita Dove, The Wig (Oswald)
Lowell, To Speak of Woe (Paterson)
Claude McKay, If We Must Die (Muldoon)
Sea Sonnet Oswald
Wave Paterson
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