Paul Muldoon: FROLIC AND DETOUR W2 [2019] hardback ZACTI The Roman Empire's hold on

The Roman Empire's hold on the province of Britannia is fragile

and sights beyond the city

at a time when the queer community continues to suffer discrimination and extreme violence

heartbreaking in its human drama

what other threats might they invite in

Paul Muldoon: FROLIC AND DETOUR W2 [2019] hardback ZACTI The Roman Empire's hold onAlthough Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collection. Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the Irish Rising, hunting with eagles, the house wren, all the way to the day to day assault of twenty first century America, Frolic and Detour reminds us