Paul Muldoon, who as a former professor of poetry at Oxford might seem a world away from celebrity ghost writers. His style, described by academics as “irreducibly esoteric” and “pregnant with allusions and linguistic play”, is not the kind of writing found in the average airport paperback or "Fab Four" hit.
But the Northern Irish poet, also a friend of the late Seamus Heaney, is a confessed devotee of sixties pop who said he will “still go to see Paul McCartney every chance I get”, and agreed to work on the volume of a fellow “literary figure”.
He said: “Based on conversations I had with Paul McCartney over a five year period, these commentaries are as close to an autobiography as we may ever come.
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