“To describe Paul Muldoon’s influence on contemporary poetry is like trying to assess the influence of The Beatles on post-war music: it’s to be seen and heard in the work of almost every British and Irish poet since the 1970’s.” — The Irish Post “One of the great poets of the past hundred years, who can be everything in his poems – word-playful, lyrical, hilarious, melancholy. And angry. Only Yeats before him could write with such measured fury.” – Roger Rosenblatt, The New York Times Book Review “I’m a huge fan of everything Paul Muldoon does; it’s always a particular pleasure to dive into the delicious word play of his song lyrics, and being part of his extraordinary band is one of the highest honors of my life." – Cait O’Riordan “Somehow, despite my very bourgeois upbringing, when Paul wants a down-home blues for one of his lyrics, he tends to throw it my way. Or anything rootsy for that matter. But whatever genre he asks of me, once exposed to his words, the music tends to leap out almost immediately. He really understands lyric writing — even though poetry and lyrics are, in musicians’ lingo, an odd ‘double.’ I don’t know how he does it, but the same wry wit, biting cultural references, and sly puns that suffuse his poetry equally inhabit his lyric writing. What an ongoing pleasure!” – David Mansfield
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Paul Muldoon & Rogue Oliphant herald the arrival of their eagerly anticipated new album, Visible From Space, with today’s premiere of their latest single. Written by Muldoon and guitarist/vocalist Chris Harford, “Skin in the Game” is available everywhere now. A genre-defying collection that sees the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet venturing beyond the page alongside legendary producer Tony Visconti and an all-star cadre of musical collaborators, Visible From Space arrives via Soul Selects Records next Friday, September 12. Pre-orders are available now. “A song about the joys of retirement, not a subject much to the fore in the rock’n’roll canon,” says Paul Muldoon of “Skin in the Game.” “I like to write what might be called rock’n’roll songs for grown-ups.” "When one is given a lyric from Paul Muldoon to put music to, such as ‘Skin in the Game,’ it forces one to wonder, do I in fact, have skin in the game?” adds Harford. “If the possibility of not hearing Paul read the lyric in his own voice takes place first, the exciting challenge is finding one's rhythm, and in this case a slight shuffle, RnB style song, seemed appropriate.” LISTEN TO “SKIN IN THE GAME” WATCH "SKIN IN THE GAME" OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO
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Hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War,” Paul Muldoon has spent decades redefining the possibilities of lyric and language. Now, with Visible From Space, the visionary Irish poet brings his layered lyricism to life in bold, unexpected ways, bridging poetry with performance, verse with the visceral power of rock ‘n’ roll. Produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T. Rex, Thin Lizzy) and engineered by 4x GRAMMY® Award winner Kevin Killen (U2, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello), the album once again unites Muldoon with a stellar collective of truly singular musicians including singer-songwriter/guitarist Chris Harford, singer-songwriter/guitarist/author Warren Zanes (The Del Fuegos), bassist Cáit O’Riordan (The Pogues), multi-instrumentalist and composer David Mansfield (Bob Dylan, T Bone Burnett), and drummer/percussionist Ray Kubian (Dean Ween Group, Electric Six, Chris Forsyth), as well as guest appearances from renowned saxophonist Donny McCaslin. A brilliantly vivid tapestry of poetic storytelling and genre-crossing arrangements, Visible From Space – which marks the fourth full-length release from Rogue Oliphant following 2022’s Highlights of the Low Life. At the forefront is the guiding hand of Paul Muldoon, his words weaving through such extraordinary tracks as the surrealistic love song, “Rainstorm,” the and the truly epic title track – the latter available now alongside an official lyric video – and another complex love song called “Hit Machine,” with directness and enigmatic power, imbued with the rich cultural heritage of Irish literature yet unmistakably modern in both language and perspective. At once cinematic, literate, and deeply human, Visible From Space is the most ingeniously allusive and sonically inspired work from Paul Muldoon & Rogue Oliphant – a transcendent fusion of words and music, brought to life by some of rock’s most adventurous minds.
LISTEN TO “VISIBLE FROM SPACE” WATCH “VISIBLE FROM SPACE” LYRIC VIDEO LISTEN TO “HIT MACHINE” To celebrate the arrival of Visible From Space, Paul Muldoon & Rogue Oliphant will join together for a very special record release live performance tonight at New York City’s famed Joe’s Pub at 8 PM. Then on Thursday, September 4, the band will be playing a private show at The Bitter End for a WFUV Marquee Event. On Friday, September 5, they will be performing at WXPN Free at Noon series at Ardmore Hall in Ardmore, PA. Next week, the band will be an official showcasing act at AMERICANAFEST in Nashville, TN, playing Thursday, September 11 at 7pm at The Basement. Muldoon will also be speaking on a panel titled "The Double Helix of Song and Poetry: Two Forms Intertwined" moderated by Ann Powers and also including Joy Harjo and Rosanne Cash.
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ABOUT PAUL MULDOON: Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet and professor of poetry, as well as an editor, critic, playwright, lyricist, and translator. Muldoon is the author of fifteen full-length collections of poetry, including 2002’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Moy Sand and Gravel, along with innumerable smaller collections, works of criticism, opera libretti, books for children, song lyrics, and radio and television drama. His poetry has been translated into twenty languages. Born in 1951 in Portadown, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, to Patrick Muldoon, a farm laborer and market gardener, and Brigid Regan, a schoolteacher, Paul Muldoon was brought up near a village called The Moy on the border of counties Armagh and Tyrone. He is the oldest of three children. After studying at Queen’s University, Belfast, he published his first book, New Weather, in 1973, at the age of 21. From 1973 he worked as a producer for the BBC in Belfast until, in the mid-1980’s, he gave up his job to become a freelance writer and moved to the United States with his second wife, the American novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz. He now lives in New York City and Sharon Springs, NY. He is the father of two children. Muldoon served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1999 to 2004 and as poetry editor of The New Yorker from 2007 to 2017. He has taught at Princeton University since 1987 and currently occupies the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 chair in the Humanities. He was the Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of honorary doctorates from ten universities, among Muldoon’s many honors and accolades are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Spirit of Ireland Award from the Irish Arts Center (NYC), the 2017 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, the 2018 Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters, the 2020 Michael Marks Award, and the 2024 Premio di Poesia Sinestetica. # # # PAUL MULDOON & ROGUE OLIPHANT VISIBLE FROM SPACE (Soul Selects Records) Release Date: Friday, September 12, 2025 | 
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