Paul Muldoon is, by common consent — in his native Ireland, England and the United States — the outstanding poet of his generation and a leading modern writer. General Admission follows hot on the heels of two new books: The End of the Poem — a series of lectures he delivered as Professor of Poetry at Oxford,and Horse Latitudes, his tenth collection and the first since Moy Sand and Gravel for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Wildly allusive and inventive, General Admission includes ‘My Ride’s Here’, co-written with Warren Zevon and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, and a feast of lyrics for songs he has been performing since 2004 as a member of Rackett, a band that plays ‘what can only be described as three-car-garage rock’.