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Paul Muldoon: The End of the Poem [2009] paperback BEAUT In Mexico CityThe End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete performances, these lectures form a dazzling set of variations around the sustained theme of 'the end of the poem'. Each lecture explores a different sense of an ending: whether a poem can ever be a free standing structure, read and written in isolation from other poems; whether a poem's line