Can a Beatle outdo the Bard? Poet Paul Muldoon on his new co-writer - and prank caller - Paul McCartney

[...]you wouldn't want to stand up in front of a judge and say 'I know what the difference is.'" Still, if a court ever needed to call an expert on it, they might ask Muldoon. If McCartney is (as Muldoon has called him) "a major literary figure", he's one with a se...

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Published inDaily telegraph (London, England : 1969)
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Daily Telegraph 19.06.2021
Subjects
Musical performances
Poetry
Poets
Sonnets
Writing
New York
Ireland
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Summary:[...]you wouldn't want to stand up in front of a judge and say 'I know what the difference is.'" Still, if a court ever needed to call an expert on it, they might ask Muldoon. If McCartney is (as Muldoon has called him) "a major literary figure", he's one with a sense of humour: he once prank-called the poet pretending to be Donald Trump, offering to hire him as the White House "poetry czar". The book covers 154 McCartney songs - the number of Shakespeare's sonnets; a coincidence, but it makes comparisons tempting.
ISSN:0307-1235