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He left home just as soon as he was able to put on his wellies by himself and settled down to a carefree existence characterised by the ancient Irish tradition of 'The Trotting of the Bogs'. He eventually wound up at Queen's University, Belfast, having had many adventures along the way, involving Red, White and Blue Indians, Paul Klee, spuds, more spuds, even more spuds, and The Great Pink-Spotted Potato Famine of 1966. It was at University that he started writing poetry, and he managed to get published by Fibber and Fibber while still an undergraduate. While there he was introduced by noted redneck teacher Jerry Hicks to Seamus Heaney with the memorable and possibly immortal line "This is Paul, my pet budgie."

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rdfs:comment	He left home just as soon as he was able to put on his wellies by himself and settled down to a carefree existence characterised by the ancient Irish tradition of 'The Trotting of the Bogs'. He eventually wound up at Queen's University, Belfast, having had many adventures along the way, involving Red, White and Blue Indians, Paul Klee, spuds, more spuds, even more spuds, and The Great Pink-Spotted Potato Famine of 1966. It was at University that he started writing poetry, and he managed to get published by Fibber and Fibber while still an undergraduate. While there he was introduced by noted redneck teacher Jerry Hicks to Seamus Heaney with the memorable and possibly immortal line "This is Paul, my pet budgie."
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abstract	He left home just as soon as he was able to put on his wellies by himself and settled down to a carefree existence characterised by the ancient Irish tradition of 'The Trotting of the Bogs'. He eventually wound up at Queen's University, Belfast, having had many adventures along the way, involving Red, White and Blue Indians, Paul Klee, spuds, more spuds, even more spuds, and The Great Pink-Spotted Potato Famine of 1966. It was at University that he started writing poetry, and he managed to get published by Fibber and Fibber while still an undergraduate. While there he was introduced by noted redneck teacher Jerry Hicks to Seamus Heaney with the memorable and possibly immortal line "This is Paul, my pet budgie." The two became fast friends. One of Muldoon's first poems, indeed, is called 'Hedgehog' and was clearly written to extract the urine from Heaney's very real fear of the creatures: the Hedgehog in Muldoon's poem is a god out for revenge. When first presented with the poem Heaney hid for several days under his blanket. From such stories mythologies are begun. Muldoon eventually left Queens with a 3rd-class degree and was immediately hailed as genius and a key figure of the Irish Literary Renaissance, although he himself wasn't sure of this new-found fame and, when at parties and other social gatherings, he tended to hide in the nearest available narthex. Several of Muldoon's poems seek to engage with public life and shared experience and demonstrate Muldoon's belief in the legitimacy of mass cultural experience. "Incantatatatata...", for example, was written in response to Vic Reeves' and Bob Mortimer's television show 'Shooting Stars', with its catchphrase "Ulrikakakakakaaa!" The poem contains at least one direct reference, indeed, with its phonetically rendered 'quaquaqua' and this links back to James Joyce's 'Quoiquoiquoiquoiquoi'. Margaret Thatcher's dictum 'Greed is Good' produced Muldoon's response 'The More A Man Has The More A Man Wants'.

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