Adam Phillips writes:

What occupies Muldoon in many of his best poems – some of which are in Horse Latitudes – is what sets him off, what springs the narrator of the poem from where he is to somewhere else. And the more puzzling the associations are, the more efficiently they take him somewhere else . . . Muldoon wants to go where his thoughts lead him, and the more inexplicable the links the better. His poetics depend on not knowing how the process works, but that it works; by telling us to look no further than his faith in language, which can never let him down because he can never know what it promises, Muldoon provokes the reader into a working-out of his poems that never quite works out.

Faber and Faber | Hardback 80 pp. |ISBN: 9780571232345