Moy Sand and Gravel

Paul Muldoon · 2002 CE · Poem · English · Contemporary

A Northern Irish poet living in New Jersey writes back toward the County Armagh of his boyhood and forward to a long closing poem, in intricate rhyme and slant rhyme that never quite resolve. Puns, allusions and family history are bound into the same stanzas. Filed here with English, as the corpus does with Irish writing in English.

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