Tom Paulin
Tom Paulin
Thomas Neilson Paulinis a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the GM Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 January 1949
CountryIreland
classes education grim rigid school victorian
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.
book worry hobbies
All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.
certain darkness heart irish-poet sort
Because there is a sort of amorphous, sort of darkness at the heart of things, because there is a certain kind of complacency and individualism.
jobs real thinking
I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.