Free lunchtime talk: Paul Muldoon’s poem American Standard at the Burgess Foundation

Next Tuesday, poets and teachers from the Centre for New Writing are getting together for the first in a series of lunchtime talks about poetry. They will be discussing a new long-form piece by Paul Muldoon, American Standard, which was published earlier this month in the Times Literary Supplement. The event will take place at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, and is free to attend. The Northern Irish writer Muldoon has won a Pulitzer Prize and has been described by some as the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War. The panel will consist of IABF Fellow Zaffar Kunial and poets Michael Schmidt, Frances Leviston, and John McAuliffe. They will be asking and taking questions about Muldoon’s style, about how he writes about Donald Trump’s America, and his place in contemporary literature.

Tue 26 Feb, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY, 1.10pm – 2pm, FREE, www.eventbrite.com/free-lunchtime-talks