Culture That Made Me: Paul Muldoon on McCartney, TS Eliot and Sweeney Todd

As the celebrated poet becomes the subject of an upcoming documentary at Cork International Film Festival, he selects some of his cultural touchstones 

A documentary on Paul Muldoon will show at Cork International Film Festival. 

Born in 1951, Paul Muldoon grew up on a farm in Co Armagh. He has lived in the United States since 1987 where he is a professor at Princeton University. In 2003, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He recently edited Paul McCartney’s two-volume set, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present. He is married to the American novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz. They have two children.