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From 1973 to 1986 be worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing program at Princeton University. In 1999 he was elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , he was given an American Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize. he has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.