Frolic and Detour : Poems
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 306176713
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Faber
- ISBN
- 9780571354498
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This collection of poetry, the author's first in four years, brings together a substantial number of new poems that display Muldoon's exceptional technical, formal and thematic range. It is the product of significant new research on art, history, music, cinema, the church, and popular culture as well as ornithology, geography, mythology, and physics. In thematic terms, the poems also range widely in time and space and include a sequence on World War I, elegies for Leonard Cohen, C.K. Williams and John Ashbery and poems on Donald Trump and Trumpism.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Frolic and Detour brings together a substantial collection of new poems that range in their interests from the Great War, the Irish Rising, Native American chiefs, the Holocaust, mourning, and contemporary American politics. The poems are infused with much reading and erudition, drawing on not only the histories of music, literature, cinema, the church, and popular culture but also a host of other knowledges, including ornithology, geography, mythology, and physics.
The volume includes poems first published in such journals as the Harvard Review, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New Yorker, PN Review, Stand, Times Literary Supplement, and Financial Times
A number of the poems were commissioned - commissioning bodies included the Grand Central Hotel Belfast, New York University, and New York Times.
The volume has been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Poetry Review, The Telegraph, The Scotsman, and The Irish Independent.
The volume has been shortlisted for the 2020 Irish Times Poetry Now Award.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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