The following abbreviations of Muldoon’s publications are employed in the main text and footnotes. The books are published by Faber and Faber in London. Many of the same books are also published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux in New York. Muldoon has also published poetry volumes, plays and children’s books with Wake Forest University Press in the United States and Gallery Press in Ireland.
| NW | New Weather, 1973 |
| M | Mules, 1977 |
| WBL | Why Brownlee Left, 1980 |
| Q | Quoof, 1983 |
| MTB | Meeting the British, 1987 |
| Mad | Madoc, 1990 |
| AC | The Annals of Chile, 1994 |
| H | Hay, 1998 |
| TII | To Ireland, I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| MSG | Moy Sand and Gravel, 2002 |
| HL | Horse Latitudes, 2006 |
| Mag | Maggot, 2010 |
| OTTWK | One Thousand Things Worth Knowing, 2015 |