HU Spring/Summer 86
description: Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Ewart, Whitworth, Gray, Saunders, Higgins, Holmes, Edmund, Geddes, Duhig, Jude the Obscure, Asley, Paulin, MacKimmon, Deane, Elliot, O’Rourke, Johnstone, Greene, Fahey, Kazantzis, Davis, Cooke, Rooney, Latham, Wood, Clampet. Book Reviews: Korelitz, Foley, Parker, Grennan, Dawe, Clyde, Ingoldby, Simmons.
coverage: poem, gavin ewart, in memory of philip arthur larkin, ch, obe, 1922-1985, westminster abbey, poet, writer, church, jazz, music, philip larkin, death, memorial, poem, gavin ewart, the life to come, age, aging, old, poem, john whitworth, a birthday present, father, daughter, advice, friendship, parenthood, poem, john whitworth, the book of law, sex, syphilis, aids, sexually transmitted disease, god, religion, poem, alasdair gray, to andrew, before one, infant, baby, words, parenthood, noun, verb, child, spoon, poem, donald g. saunders, king of beasts, lion, animal, cat, wild, nobility, poem, rita ann higgins, the day bridie o’flaherty was made mayor, family, history, money, poem, rita ann higgins, it’s about time, tuam, place, time, poem, timothy holmes, initiation, zulu, africa, mtwanami, childhood, poem, lauris edmond, cows, milk, landscape, grass, poem, lauris edmond, the traditional plays, illness, sickness, death bed, no plays, poem, gary geddes, time out for coca cola, business, labour, television, commercial, south american border, texas, guatemala, poem, gary geddes, from the terracotta army, pottery, horses, poem, gary geddes, spearman, weapon, armour, war, soldier, poem, ian duhig, double vision, or second sight again, geography, place, london, clapham common, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, henry de montherlant, the girls, literature, broceliande, playwright, chaos and night, poem, neil astley, a month in the country, russia, islayev, love, natalya petrovna, a month in the country, poem, tom paulin, defenester, sensation, manhattan, big bang, void, jan hus, poem, lachlan mackinnon, from a french court, child, abuse, marriage, family, poem, seamus deane, qui vivent en marge, a stone, rock, a bird, war, memory, nausea, margin, edge, liminal, sickness, body, sensation, paper, linen, poem, andrew elliott, a peep, sex, relationship, habit, poem, michael o’rourke, blackthorn stick, brambles, autumn, fall, stick, wood, blood, sloes, review, rober…

HU Spring 86
description: Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Heaney, O’Brien, Coady, Korelitz, Durcan, Carson, Roper, McDonald, Sloan, Jude the Obscure, Book Reviews: Welch, Montrose, O’Toole, Simmons, Parker, Munizer, Moody, Jude the Obscure, Dawe, Foley, Ingoldby, Johnstone.
coverage: poem, seamus heaney, from clearances, cobblestone, past, family, history, objects, tea, mass, domestic, ireland, holy week, church, chestnut, poem, seamus heaney, the old team, sport, parade ground, football, moyola park f. c., sons of castledawson, poem, sean o’brien, geography, blue, sand, sea, landscape, place, poem, sean o’brien, the yard, white, garden, van loup, murder, captain flack, von zundert, city, urban, voices, poem, michael coady, letting go, abandoned, deserted, place, buildings, aherlow, carna, kilkenny, derelict, ruin, poem, michael coady, american ascension, ye men of galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven?, acts 1:11, museum town condominium, museum of modern art, new york city, religion, homeless, class, god, poem, jean hanff korelitz, ashes, for beatrice mchugh, death, dead, loss, god, irish, new york, catholicism, kiss, kissing, religion, ash wednesday, poem, not paul durcan, the critic meets christ, on the road near inniskeen, carrickmacross, ulster freedom fighters, special criminal court, ireland, monaghan, conflict, religion, war, thomas moore brigade, edna longley, poem, ciaran carson, patchwork, clothing, clothes, sewing, quilt, quilting, belfast, family, stitch, thread, poem, mark roper, soft down, boarding school, adolescence, dance, relationship, romance, hope, poem, mark roper, god, religion, evensong, light, poem, peter mcdonald, christmas, children, santa claus, father christmas, childhood, belfast, spaceship, presents, article, essay, barry sloan, the wages of paramilitary sin, a comment on two recent novels by northern irish writers, cal, bernard mclaverty, silver’s city, maurice leitch, murder, catholic, protestant, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, propertius, elegy, virgil, eclogues, henry de montherlant, french, literature, homosexuality, desert rose, the girls, review, robert welch, rational faith in the republic of the ordinary, from the irish, james simmons, review, david montrose, williams junior on will…

HU Winter 86
description: Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Carson, Simmons, Hauge, Fulton, Fallon, Higgins, Jude the Obscure, Smyth, Kirkpatrick, O’Donnell, Duhig, Jacobs, Dubnov, Heath-Stubbs, Wilson Foster, Kearney, Bolger, Logan, Groves, Comins, Monahan, Henson, Cassidy, Parker, Reeves, Book Reviews: Grennan, Allen, Williams, Parker, Carson, Einspieler, Johnstone, Ingoldby, Longley, McWhirter.
coverage: poem, ciaran carson, the irish for no, ulster, cloreen, language, city, belfast, sensation, poem, ciaran carson, serial, black, belfast, falls road, guinness, ormsby, german, irish, poem, james simmons, the wallace collection, london, art, gallery, richard parke bonington, inconsolable widow, child with lamb, rubens, rembrandt, the tate, poem, james simmons, a message to the wife, love, kiss, sex, relationship, poem, james simmons, to have loved, smell, intimacy, body, love, poem, james simmons, thompson the gambler, game, cards, failure, poker, poem, olav h. hauge, translation, robin fulton, norwegian, an old-fashioned norwegian, grass, matgrass, poem, olav h. hauge, translation, robin fulton, norwegian, i was singing of a kindling stick, bumble bee, tar, fly, insects, poem, olav h. hauge, translation, robin fulton, norwegian, there are omen-bearers, omen, vision, poem, peter fallon, dipping day, raindance, swimming, water, poem, peter fallon, dung, cattle, cows, animals, rastafarians, poem, michael hofmann, from a to b and back again, northern line, train, hospital, illness, city, metropolis, poem, john higgins, child and the glassblower, glass, light, molten, material, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, henry de monterhlant, literature, french, the boys, novels, poem, gerard smyth, on the outskirts, road, traffic, sound, street, hearing, listening, poem, gerard smyth, icons, ordinary, sound, dawn-chorus, children, images, poem, johnston kirkpatrick, the roofer’s labourer, labour, building, work, poem, hugh o’donnell, mulladuff house, memory, rooms, place, family, childhood, absence, poem, ian duhig, from new triads, ireland, three, people, truth, lists, gael, poem, ian duhig, the man who invented craig raine, curry, london, diarrhoea, illness, sickness, poets, poem, ian duhig, the bradford count, in piam memoriam, fleece, ireland, dalesbreds, jocobs sheep, boland biscuits, poem, david jacobs, cricket helmets, sport, clothing, poem, eugene dobnov, t…

HU Autumn 85
description: Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone: Contributors: Carson, McGuckian, Muldoon, Dawe, Elliott, Magee, O’Logy, Jude the Obscure, Whitworth, Lomas, Carr, Smith, Rooney, Taylor, Cooke, Foster. Book Reviews by: Longley, Simmons, McDonald, Parker, Montrose, Johnstone, McBride, Dawe.
coverage: poem, ciaran carson, dresden, horse boyle, carrick, place, current affairs, ireland, donegal, rock, land, local, war, people, poem, medbh mcguckian, what does ‘early’ mean?, spring, ending, meaning, thought, rain, poem, medbh mcguckian, mrs orchard, house, home, december, winter, colour, wood, daughter, poem, paul muldoon, gone, forgetting, memory, smells, venetian goblets, poem, gerald dawe, shades, military band, soldiers, belfast, victory parade, people, photographs, past, memory, poem, andrew elliott, three mohicans or, what happens when you sleep, litter, rubbish, waste, eggs, hair, poem, andrew elliott, the cockatoo and the mill-horse, birds, flight, feathers, poem, wes magee, before the bench, 1864, gala, insanity, health, illness, asylum, poem, wes magee, littoral, tide, sea, litter, dusk, shore, poem, jean e. o’logy, spoof, for michael-the-mensch longley and with apologies to mr muldoon, mesghugannah, family, language, yiddish, schmuck, jewish, sex, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, henry de montherlant, france, french, literature, writer, the bachelors, poem, john whitworth, books are a load of books, protest, youth, the beatles, culture, poetry, literature, life, poet, family, parent, poem, herbert lamas, all souls’ day, mother, father, death, dead, childhood, identity, poem, sally carr, the snow builders, building, winter, play, children, poem, iain crichton smith, weeds, plants, nature, growth, poem, padraig rooney, the stamp collector, collection, collecting, avenue matignon, pictures, history, miniatures, poem, ron taylor, yo mi revisits his origins, home, poet, china, chinese, place, return, drinking, poetry, poem, angela cooke, gardener’s question time, radio, plants, garden, emotions, gardener, shrub, destruction, empathy, article, essay, john wilson foster, the critical condition of ulster, northern ireland, queens university, seamus deane, heroic styles: the tradition of an idea, declan kiberd, anglo-irish attitudes, seamus heaney…

HU Summer 85
description: Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone: Contributors: Aspenstrom, Swan, Scammell, Ferguson, Whitworth, Leigh, Longley, Fulton, Roddy, Reid, Napier, Smyth, ‘McLeftie’ Daugherty, O’Driscoll, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews: Simmons, Montrose, Stuchlick, Carson, Nolan, Glendinning, Jupp, Ingoldby, McBride. Cover by Ross Wilson.
coverage: poem, werner aspenstrom, 1956, translation, robin fulton, swedish, icaros and master granite, poetry, 73, flight, earth, weight, poem, werner aspenstrom, 1983, the snow-leopard, animal, cave, holy man, mountain, philosophy, stability, chomolungma, poem, werner aspenstrom, 1983, eyes, looking, watching, knots, wood, poem, jon swan, the corn lot, august, summer, grain, autumn, weather, poem, william scammell, byron’s bedroom, lord byron, sex, newstead abbey, bed, literature, poet, relationship, poem, neil ferguson, 1984, nina, plants, growth, flowers, garden, ground, soil, burial, future, poem, john whitworth, the things, daughter, child, play, objects, toys, poem, john whitworth, bank holiday afternoon, summer, leisure, beach, sea, poem, richard leigh, history of jazz, music, sound, photograph, memory, obscure, voice, interview, the longley tapes, michael longley, robert johnstone, poetry, music, family, sport, royal belfast academical institution, trinity college dublin, writing, illustration, james allen, lapwing, poems 1963-1983, poem, robin fulton, lines on ash wednesday, seasons, weather, cloud, religion, repentance, poem, andrew roddy, the planter’s cycle, potatoes, religion, growing up, church, lust, learning, time, growth, poem, christopher reid, little man, from katerina brac, clerk, office, poem, christopher reid, like a mirror, from katerina brac, reflection, memory, poem, christopher reid, io, from katerina brac, argus, gadfly, betrayal, poem, felicity napier, nullarbor, nullarbor plain, australia, relationship, loyalty, cormorants, faithful, poem, gerard smyth, sanctuary, night, intimacy, home, family, children, drama, lee macleftie, one night in february, a biased entertainment, northern ireland, troubles, conflict, sectarian, sectarianism, prods, taigs, protestant, catholic, red hand quality bottled guinness, papes, violence, childbirth, society, paddy’s whiskey, poem, michael daugherty, the crossing, parents, loss, child, mother, father, grief, bridge…

HU Autumn 84
description: Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone: Contributors: Whitworth, Ewart, Daugherty, Gallagher, Curtis, Longley, Turner, Silcock, Szites, Montrose, Paulin, Johnstone, Dawe, Smyth, Runin, Cassidy, Cooke, Cash, Watt, Roper, Bigger (Jude the Obscure). Book Reviews: Carson, McDonald, McGuckian, Johnstone, Montrose, Maguire, Dawe.
coverage: poem, john whitworth, he is at present working on a novel, party, writer, writing, author, youth, emotion, people, relationships, art, characters, poem, gavin ewart, a journalist speaks out (in horror), edward field, the queen, shit, excrement, private parts, royalty, privacy, monarchy, poem, gavin ewart, three so-called sonnets, sonnet: o, my god!, religion, hallelujah, allah, jewish, roman catholic, destruction, poem, gavin ewart, sonnet: supernatural beings, women, woman, virgin mary, bodies, real, magic, angels, belief, poem, gavin ewart, sonnet: the last days, schubert in delirium, illness, death, age, old, hospital, possessions, poem, michael daugherty, lines from no-man’s-land, house, domestic, television, smoking, haunting, ghosts, wife, marriage, poem, simon curtis, die-hard, innocence, innocent, normandy, england, national service, poem, katherine gallagher, childless woman, mother, child, time, aging, women, essay, edna longley, shit or bust: the importance of keith douglas, poet, collected poems, poem, bill turner, apparatus: a rant, dogs, pets, dirt, animals, humans, darwin, slaughter, butcher, cruelty, horses, morality, poem, bill turner, caviare for the swans, birds, river, duckweed, food, plants, green, poem, ruth silcock, the use of animals in research, richard ryder, victims of science, morality, humanity, humans, empathy, suffering, science, poem, george szirtes, after attila, storm, weather, lightning, landscape, petals, nature, grass, poem, david montrose, about john clare, jim burns, eliot, poetry, poet, writing, countryside, nature, poem, david montrose, the cocknew beneath the skin, bow bells, speech, speaking, accent, class, poem, david montrose, family business, occasions, ceremony, church, funeral, wedding, home, letter, tom paulin, university of virginia, another look at the filed day question, field day pamphlets, robert johnstone, seamus heaney, review, letter, robert johnstone, poem, gerald dawe, sunday walk at ross, sea, coast, shore,…

HU May 84
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Szirtes, Curtis, Longley, Taylor, Raine, O’Driscoll, Muldoon, Bleakley, Foley, Tallis, Bennett, McDonald, Ewart, Found, Cody, Matthews, McGuckian, Adcock, Scammell, Rumens, Orpwood, McCarthy, Levett, Simpson, Smyth, Cassidy, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews: Allen, Elliott, Montrose, Andrews, Johnstone. Cover by James Allen.
coverage: poem, george szirtes, ruggieri’s entertainment, king, servant, entertainment, queen, fireworks, smoke, fire, poem, george szirtes, the birds complain, bird, seduction, seducing, performance, poem, george szirtes, a small girl swinging, childhood, child, play, swing, sensation, fear, excitement, joy, poem, simon curtis, cuttings, daily telegraph, the times, the people, vogue, fashion, society, craze, england, sussex, kent, lloyds, news, newspapers, poem, michael longley, maggie moore’s, second hand clothes, clothing, sandy row, jumble, belongings, rags, rag, second-hand, poem, ron taylor, jazz pub, dance, bar, music, possibility, optimism, relationships, poem, craig raine, the first lesson, return, silence, speech, veteran, war, trauma, home, cadbury’s flake, poem, ciaran o’driscoll, dogbark, dog, bark, sound, silence, rain, record, pet, poem, paul muldoon, the main-mast, huskies, dog, wolf, athambra, journey, ship new york, poem, paul muldoon, other women, lobster, women, tongue, poem, alan bleakley, tremedda farm, storm, weather, rain, fox, animals, hunting, hunt, chickens, meat, chicken, poem, michael foley, information retrieval, facts, data, information, sex, gossip, reality, knowledge, poem, michael foley, strictly no re-admission, daddy cool, infidelity, fling, adultery, bojangles, bar, nightclub, lust, desire, poem, raymond tallis, meta-sonnet to the dark lady, night, lust, relationship, music, absence, emptiness, poem, peter mcdonald, interiors, 1, time, sleep, dream, clock back, night, 2, talent, nightmares, relationship, past, memory, 3, looking back, love, loss, underground, blue, colour, drinking, drink, sadness, poem, peter bennett, funny man, surgery, dance, injury, laughter, disability, poem, gavin ewart, a godly undertaking, evelyn waugh, soul, mole, men, pen, strong, wrong, prayer, poem, gavin ewart, how to write a poem in the american style, poetics, poetry, enjambment, ampersand, rhythm, poem, found poem, errata, poetry, catalogue, occasional clue…

HU Winter 84
description: Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Pitt-Kethley, O’Donoghue, Muldoon, Shanahan, Denniston, Simmons, Greacen, Foley, Gorman, Pybus, Cowman, Hill, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews: Simmons, Longley, Allen, McGuckian, Montrose, Ingoldby. Books of the Year: Morrow, Jude the Obscure, Foley, Muldoon, Tannahill, Dawe, Simmons. Cover by Ross Wilson.
coverage: poem, fiona pitt-kethley, from the secret commonwealth of scotland, michael scot, king of scotland, monarchy, history, pater noster, horse, berwick, england, nationality, conflict, st oran, st columba, iona, church, blood, the flying abbot, france, legend, james the fourth, james IV, monastery of sheen, the woman of leith, birth, midwife, the death of claverhouse, silver bullets, myth, jean weir’s confession, thomas weir, incest, sleuth hounds, borderers, dogs, dog, punishment, the second sight, vision, the apparition, funeral, the lost boy, langholm, mystery, poem, bernard o’donoghue, bittern, sex, heron, crane, bird, nature, fowler, standing, poem, paul muldoon, yellow ragwort, jane anderson, railway, trew-and-moy, golden spike, poem, deirdre shanahan, in the museum, brussels, exhibition, display, history, malines, objects, remains, clothing, memory, poem, edward c. denniston, i heard about brezhnev, leonid brezhnev, communism, cars, russia, rolls-royce, money, poem, james simmons, the poet’s breastplate, bed, getting up, the ballad of joe hill, death, strength, poetry, poet, nature, god, religion, society, prayer, poem, james simmons, the retired teacher rediscovers reading, teaching, books, jonathan cape, traveller’s library, retirement, university, poem, james simmons, the father to his children, shame, class, society, essay, robert greacen, the belfast poetry scene 1939-1945, culture, literature, tradition, history, louis macneive, john hewitt, michael mclaverty, second world war, AE, george william russell, roy mcfadden, ulster, poets, the new northman, john gallen, w. r. rogers, poem, michael foley, the poetry of clouds, work, desk, office, sky, poem, michael foley, beautiful departed, after laforgue, woman, desire, beauty, attraction, age, poem, damian gorman, mister wonderful, sex, youth, society, friendship, poem, damian gorman, the solipsist, love, relationship, separation, place, ireland, feature, review, hu books of the year, john morrow, timothy mo, s…

HU Sept 83
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: MacNeice, Levett, Reiss-Anderson, Jacobsen, Hunter, Henson, Ewart, Whitworth, McKinnon, Hughes, Longley, Taylor, Coulton, Latham, Armitage. Book Reviews by: Dawe, Longley, Ormsby.
coverage: introductory note, frank ormsby, louis macneice, essay, memoir, louis macneice, revantation, belfast, home, carrickfergus, northern ireland, birmingham, england, return, black mountain, mourne mountains, lagan, memory, poem, john levett, parliament, night, london, thames, city, law, politics, new year, poem, john levett, leaving, departure, landscape, cloud, dusk, vapour, atmosphere, driving, car, change, essay, louis macneice, experiences with images, writing, poetry, poet, image, poetic device, words, language, literature, train, railway, sea, bible, book of revelation, blind fireworks, the earth compels, the individualist speaks, the springboard, the dowser, order to view, homage to cliches, poem, gunnar reiss-andersen, translation, j. c. beckett, norwegian, after god, world, nature, thistle, sun, sea, absence, emptiness, religion, poem, rolf jacobsen, translation, j. c. beckett, norwegian, towers of sadness, emotion, labour, slaves, burgundy, baalbek, xeres de la frontera, swallows, building, essay, mercy hunter, a memoir of louis macneice, george galway maccann, armagh, portadown, ballinteggart, lorca, lament for ignacio, poet, greek, friend, friendship, hedli anderson, vinecash, john boyd, botanic avenue, bbc, visiting, a person from porlock, death, funeral, wake, home, house, poem, stuart henson, the trains, train, railway, sun-set, landscape, love, sex, lovers, poem, gavin ewart, the pope and i, the sun whose rays, the mikado, catholic, catholicism, writer, writing, bard, poem, john whitworth, slow left arm, cricket, sport, boredom, love, bowling, christopher morrison, essay, william t. mckinnon, the rector’s son, oh, this division of allegiance, essays in criticism, louis macneice, context, poems, the earth compels, the strings are false, carrickfergus, poetry, poet, w. h. auden, roundabout way, a journey through the six counties, bishop macneice, john frederick macneice, cadence, sermon, letters from iceland, poem, john hughes, the frosted window, in memor…

HU Winter 83
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Sherin, Deane, Bland, O’Donnell, Rawling, Hooley, Shanahan, Levett, Whitworth, Ewart, Carson, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews by: Carson, Longley, Montrose, Deane, Andrews. Cover by Seamus Carmichael.
coverage: poem, joe sheerin, the jaliors of icarus, mythology, prison guard, escape, flight, enclosure, work, wings, wing, wax, poem, joe sheerin, household deities, gods, statues, religion, worship, materials, idols, poem, joe sheerin, hospital visit, mother, illness, death, dead, loss, grief, belongings, mourning, poem, joe sheerin, a country wife, bundornan, donegal, honeymoon, marriage, sea, fear, terror, farm, rural, loneliness, regret, relationship, poem, joe sheerin, agony column, marriage, affair, relationship, sex, guilt, shame, confession, silence, morality, decision making, advice, poem, seamus deane, aisling, dreaming, dreams, anger, emotions, danger, waiting, expectation, sign, poem, seamus deane, the party givers, hosting, host, night, friendship, friends, conversation, alcohol, parents, home, morning after, hangover, house, poem, peter bland, out of season, hotel du lac, mussolini, deterioration, switzerland, age, aging, abandoned, place, cards, poem, peter bland, at aldeburgh, for herbert lomas, beach, martello tower, sea, beach, england, englishness, constable, history, place, visiting, visit, the maltings, rural, poem, hugh o’donnell, occupant, place, room, rent, occupation, home, emptiness, empty, poem, tom rawling, the names of the sea-trout, fish, trout, fishing, sea, fisherman, water, tackle, desire, poem, tom rawling, torridge salmon, h. f. and t. h., island run, fish, river, bideford bay, swimming, fishing, fisherman, hook, killing, scales, poem, ruth hooley, on ice, family, relationship, daughter, parent, loss, separation, leaving, departure, white, bath, bathwater, poem, deirdre shanahan, film, cinema, community, village, rural, memory, images, remembering, childhood, past, place, landscape, poem, john levett, charms, lucky charms, sea, beauty, beach, love, silver skulls, golden skeleton, relationship, poem, john whitworth, love story, beata, beautiful, beauty, school, a levels, modigliani, art history, literature, youth, relationships, affairs, love…

HU Autumn 82
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Raine, Latham, Curtis, Mayer, Ewart, Bland, Dewar, Carr, Kirkpatrick, Gorman, Campbell, Smyth, Mathais, Platonov, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews by Allen, Johnstone, Montrose, Maxwell. Cover by Mary Farl Powers.
coverage: poem, craig raine, code napoleon, saul bellow, mr. sammler’s planet, enlightenment, france, tricolour, spain, buonaparte, samarkland, adultery, lust, poem, john latham, beneath the walnut table, childhood, hiding, shelter, secrets, hands, bodies, body, perception, perspective, shame, spying, lust, leisure, poem, tony curtis, affairs, 1, adultery, relationships, suicide, relationship, marriage, sex, identity, love, parent, ii, parenthood, confusion, disorientation, family, regret, poem, gerda mayer, for tommy, name, names, legend, tom-tom, doubting thomas, thomas the thief, wales, welsh, thomas sternes eliot, thomas a becket, tom cat, meaning, words, uncle tom, poem, gerda mayer, seven, seven deadly sins, avarice, lust, wrath, pride, gluttony, sloth, envy, personification, morality, poem, gavin ewart, the black mass, george macbeth, sylvia plath, the prisoner in the opal, initiates, malice, evil, bad, morality, ritual, religion, worship, prayer, occult, heresy, opposite, lucifer, the grimoire of honorius, sacrifice, a. e. mason, poem, gavin ewart, a poet considers his own poetry, sex, writing, writer, pastoral, poem, peter bland, the incredible expanding house, for michael cronin, extension, expansion, growth, imagination, home, building, garden, poem, peter bland, incident in manilla, rat, animal, killing, kill, birds, hunting, hotel, hilton, food, eating, poem, alan dewar, peak cavern, tourism, tourist, holiday, work, attention, water, rock, dark, geography, cave, thought, devil’s arse, castleton, derbyshire, poem, alan dewar, the royal hunt, stag, stag’s head, drinking, light, bar, pub, drink, beer, sensation, distortion, poem, sally carr, the den, survival, children, play, wild, survive, resilience, human, humanity, shelter, poem, sally carr, horse, animal, sensation, encounter, sound, belly, poem, johnston kirkpatrick, illusions, work, factory, shipyard, labour, craft, embroidery, truth, irony, poem, damian gorman, ditty, poet, poetry, love, catholicism, religio…

HU Jan - Mar 82
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Ewart, Kazankis, Scammell, Rose, Hooley, Carson, Eglinton, Kerr, Kramer, Jenkins, Levett, Sweeney, Stafford, Gillilan, Vaughan, Allen, Jude the Obscure, Montrose, Johnstone, Dawe, Carson, Cover by Mary Farl Powers.
coverage: poem, gavin ewart, the innocents, ignorance, innocence, bigotry, discrimination, jews, reds, society, civilization, racism, belief, faith, fear, violence, genocide, religion, politics, irony, humour, poem, gavin ewart, haiku: mountaineering, death, sublime, alps, flies, vulnerability, climber, climbing, danger, mountain, poem, judith kazankis, on the coast, melon, leisure, holiday, children, relationship, distance, far away, sea, care, parenting, parenthood, thoughts, reflection, daydream, poem, william scammell, phoenix & co., lawrence, spinoza, life, nascent magyar impotence, ot morell, philosophy, gotterdammreung, fire, culture, literature, poem, dilys rose, as they fly, crow, crows, birds, omen, death, black, animal, flight, flying, feather, poem, ruth hooley, chosen exile, needle, sewing, thread, storm, weather, survival, birth, sky, outdoors, outside, poem, ciaran carson, blues, gallagher’s blues, blue mauritius, uncle, death, body, nicotine, cigarettes, smoking, family, loss, memory, poem, ciaran carson, rubbish, trash, objects, things, used, litter, residue, urban, industry, sickroom, sickness, connection, poem, eddna eglinton, looking at escape routes, correspondence, letters, notes, communication, urban, travel, journey, poem, edna eglinton, adrift, connection, separation, rescue, help, need, leaving, departure, water, boat, relationship, poem, robert kerr, remembering, love, sex, adolescence, adoration, schoolboy, desire, wife, family, comradeship, children, happiness, poem, lotte kramer, the last of winter, age, old age, letter, correspondence, sun, gratitude, company, people, death, grateful, health, place, resilience, spring, poem, mike jenkins, weekend child, university, cambridge, river cam, mother, father, divorce, communication, parents, parenthood, poem, john levett, return, destruction, weather, land, environment, renewal, landscape, change, trauma, poem, matthew sweeney, holiday, vacation, sea, beach, coast, home, house, garden, improvement, rai…

HU Nov - Dec 81
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Foley, Muldoon, Reid, Jacobs, Brown, Allan, Whitworth, Hardy, Adcock, McGuckian, Mahon, Ewart, Matthews, Hofmann, Rawlins, Curtis, Sheerin, Dawe, McFadden, Harper, McDonald, Bamforth, Kumor, Milne, Smith, Porter, Hewitt, Carson, Cassidy, Szirtes, Rumens, Durcan, Silcock, Jude the Obscure. Reviews by: Dawe, Montrose. Cover by Noel Connor.
coverage: poem, michael foley, my muse, sex, women, woman, inspiration, desire, lust, poem, michael foley, a dream of an unfair woman, poet, writer, poets, wives, wife, marriage, work, conflict, discord, dream, nightmare, anxiety, relationship, poem, paul muldoon, aisling, woman, aurora, anorexia, royal victoria hospital, illness, health, hunger-striker, medicine, obstacle, resilience, survival, poem, christopher reid, bravura passage, thames, river, london, city, traffic, industry, beauty, poem, christopher reid, bucolic interlude, pastoral, rural, countryside, nature, senses, work, poem, david jacobs, mr.bonavia decides to paint the front of the house, home, pride, home improvement, neighbour, youth, age, retired, labour, poem, poem, stewart brown, ms. mantis on sexual health politics, sex, passion, erotic, women, men, relationship, poem, r. n. allan, the girls from the high, teenagers, women, lust, desire, youth, beauty, helen of troy, high school, poem, john whitworth, barbarians, literary and debating society, youth, girls, women, loveliness, beauty, admiration, procedure, school, university, poem, tom hardy, moher revisited, clare, ireland, landscape, cliff, cliffs of moher, height, fear, icarus, bravery, danger, poem, fleur adcock, mary magdalene and the birds, seduction, women, performance, bird, blackbird, thrush, animals, pelican, humanity, body, swansong, poem, scythia, fleur adcock, scythia, central asia, eastern europe, antiquity, classical history, griffins, mythology, griffin, monster, nature, paradise, poem, medbh mcguckian, the aphrodisiac, marriage, sex, celibacy, lust, poem, medbh mcguckian, the flower master, foxgloves, daffodils, flower arrangement, beauty, craft, plants, tea ceremony, violets, lavender, hibiscus, poem, derek mahon, from the drunken boat, after rimbaud, ship, sea. violence, sinking, destruction, personification, weather, sensation, freedom, water, empathy, resilience, poem, gavin ewart, a pilgrimage, w. h. auden, the enemies of a bishop, …

HU June - Oct 81
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Whitworth, Goodenough, Cunningham, Towle, McGuckian, Ewart, Magee, Treby, Rose, Williams, Vaughan, Carr, Montrose, Rumans, Paulin, Phillips, O’Loughlin, Gillilian, Gurney, Kilfeather, Flynn, Squires, Dawe, Garfitt, Szirtes, Jude the Obscure. Reviews by: Paulin, O’Toole, Andrews, Dawe, Campfield, Carson, Montrose, Simmons. Cover by: Noel Connor.
coverage: poem, john whitworth, policeman, heliodora, sodomy, homosexuality, sex, love, loss, acheron, poem, judith goodenough, quarrel, relationship, loss, fight, independence, departure, forest, poem, judith goodenough, divinations, fortune, interpretation, future, witch, fear, decision making, poem, judith goodenough, low tide, coast, shells, beach, shellfish, meat, food, animals, blood, time, future, living, oyster, razor-clam, poem, tim cunningham, the living room, australasia, change, weather, animals, wildlife, clothing, animation, nature, return, industry, poem, rikk towle, the electric rose, light, electricity, artificial, plastic, industry, materials, future, loneliness, detachment, society, dystopia, happiness, poem, medbh mcguckian, the purification, mother, son, child, parenthood, religion, separation, relationship, loss, sanctity, poem, medbh mcguckian, the sea-wood, moon, sky, nature, isolation, poetry, poet, possession, attention, prose, a victorian enigma, gavin ewart, hair, body, genitalia, medicine, humanity, women, woman, gender, difference, alienation, poem, wes magee, mermaid, beach, alienation, alien, body, difference, displacement, foreign, strange, disability, poem, ivor treby, the pilcrow, punctuation, grammar, writing, poetry, language, writer, criticism, poem, ivor treby, the new girl, sex, relationship, rejection, desire, lust, strangers, alexander street, poem, dilys rose, a family affair, wedding, funeral, death, loss, ceremony, baby, burial, resilience, poem, dilys rose, i come here often, sea, beach, solitude, sensation, escape, nature, meditation, poem, patrick williams, for tiger and others, pet, loss, prayer, god, religion, faith, hope, lost, community, humanity, poem, patrick williams, strange country, sex, affair, relationship, love, separation, desire, loss, individuals, poem, will vaughan, leavetaking, old, age, elderly, dying, departure, loss, emptiness, sadness, anger, poem, will vaughan, in the afternoon, music, bach, sound, time, li…

HU Mar - May 81
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Bartlett, Damian Gorman, Meehan, Canterbury, Devine, Stapleton, Torney, Matthews, Morrow, Ewart, Foley, Michael Gorman, Orpwood, Crawford, Dawe, Treby, McDonald, Carr, Buchanan, Groves, Holmes, Jude the Obscure. Book reviews by Montrose, Andrews. Cover by JAMM.
coverage: poem, elizabeth bartlett, a pastoral crime, sex, hymen, rural, virginity, bodies, blood, horses, nature, change, poem, elizabeth bartlett, quite a day, class, home, domestic, family, mother, bureaucracy, judgement, means, shame, embarrassment, poem, elizabeth bartlett, heart and soul, loss, leaving, residue, home, house, belongings, self, body, love, resilience, relationship, poem, damian gorman, pierrot sonnet, memory, childhood, child, place, laughter, ruins, ulsterhall, nostalgia, poem, frankie meehan, fall, adolescence, missing, disappearance, school, memory, biology, youth, poem, frankie meehan, pent up, chickens, hens, animals, purpose, poem, john canterbury, the uncle, alcoholic, wino, alcohol, drinking, food, materials, sensation, drawing, sketching, poem, brian devine, the mender, craft, watch, mending, fixing, poem, kathleen jamie, baiting the fish, ice, death, smell, stench, animal, poem, laurence stapleton, the summer owl, yeats. reading, interruption, animal, sound, cry, bird, poem, martin torney, speech, disability, communication, deaf, dumb, people, others, sound, silence, underground, poem, tom matthews, postal proposal, marriage, letters, communication, fiction, john morrow, paramilitary tennis, sport, exercise, middle age, aging, fiction, john morrow, tommy carlisle, river, pollution, lagan, blackstaff, danger, survival, community, sickness, miracle, disease, healer, healing, success, resilience, fame, poem, gavin ewart, christmas 1980, society, season, festival, contemporary, pagan, christian, thatcher, regan, politics, carols, poem, gavin ewart, sonnet: playing for time, auschwitz, arthur miller, holocaust, racism, humanity, gender, human, empathy, genocide, poem, michael foley, the go situation, philosophy, writing, writers, poetry, protection, shelter, involvement, exposure, confidence, poem, michael gorman, grandmother, after the vacation, family, emigration, emigre, usa, new york, chicago, sligo, rural, ireland, barber, community, devotions, …