• Muldoon’s Picnic at Lyric Theatre, Belfast

    As one of the most fêted literary voices from these shores, Paul Muldoon surely knows there’s no favour in feigning wisdom. It’s an accumulation, not a ransacking—a life’s work sprung from the ups, downs and in-betweens. It’s in knowing that for all one’s ascribed or self-worth, success—like wisdom—is a goose egg without the gaze and concert of others. Produced by Poetry Ireland, and curated by the widely celebrated Co. Armagh poet in question, Muldoon’s Picnic is an omnium-gatherum of poetry, prose and music that takes that essential esprit de corps and sprints with it. Following ten sold-out seasons at the Irish Arts…

  • Eclectic Picnic: An Interview with Paul Muldoon

    Ahead of Muldoon’s Picnic – an “omnium-gatherum” of words and music featuring an in-house band and special guests including Duke Special and Colm Mac Con Iomaire – at Belfast’s the MAC on September 2, Pulitzer Prize-winning Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon talks to Brian Coney about collaboration, the birth and of the picnic and his desire to give poetry an extra push. Go here to buy tickets to Muldoon’s Picnic at the MAC “(A) Muldoon’s Picnic” is a saying denoting something that is all over the place or having a lack of structure and organisation. Collins also reliably informs me…