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
thinking ideas flying
I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.
thinking facts boost
I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.
country thinking people
I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.
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.
thinking historical consciousness
I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.
afflicts fabric intolerant north population south
Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.
answer exist fiction robust terms writer
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
facts london submission
Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.
israel support zionist
Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.
israel
I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.
responsibility israel views
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.
zionist
You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.
writing wish way
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
kind
I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.