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For several weeks we've been recording a subscribers-only mini series on the history of the sonnet in English. Sonnets are crowd-pleasers - short, sometimes sweet, and they always deliver a lot of bang for the reading buck.
Today, one of the world's great living poets, Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize winner and former poetry editor of the New Yorker, joins us to talk about the pleasures and challenges of this glorious short form.
Paul has recently compiled a spectacular anthology of sonnets, Scanty Plot of Ground, published this month by Faber in the UK.
Making this episode free for all because it's such a special conversation and gateway back into reading the classics.
Listeners to our show can order the book from faber.co.uk and enter the code Podcast25 for a discount with UK shipping.
Paul Muldoon, ed, Scanty Plot of Ground, Faber 2025
Paul Muldoon, Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2025
Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2006
Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004
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For several weeks we've been recording a subscribers-only mini series on the history of the sonnet in English. Sonnets are crowd-pleasers - short, sometimes sweet, and they always deliver a lot of bang for the reading buck.
Today, one of the world's great living poets, Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize winner and former poetry editor of the New Yorker, joins us to talk about the pleasures and challenges of this glorious short form.
Paul has recently compiled a spectacular anthology of sonnets, Scanty Plot of Ground, published this month by Faber in the UK.
Making this episode free for all because it's such a special conversation and gateway back into reading the classics.
Listeners to our show can order the book from faber.co.uk and enter the code Podcast25 for a discount with UK shipping.
Paul Muldoon, ed, Scanty Plot of Ground, Faber 2025
Paul Muldoon, Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2025
Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2006
Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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