TWA Poets: Paul Muldoon

Born in 1951

It's the birthday of poet Paul Muldoon, born in Portadown, Northern Ireland (1951). He said of his childhood: "The place was County Armagh, about halfway across northern Ireland, an apple growing district where some of the people who had been planted there in the Elizabethan era had come from Warwickshire and brought with them their apple plants, but al…