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poem, paul wilkins, north antrim coast, weather, ireland, driving, travel, portrush, ballycastle, nature, shore, travel, photograph, sunset, poem, paul wilkins, a graveyard in ulster, crow, grave, antrim, mourners, mourning, death, dead, church, history, coffin, ireland, poem, paul wilkins, euston, station, travel, trains, railway, platform, journey, poem, paul wilkins, the rose, autumn, flower, petals, seasons, growth, plants, poem, niall jordan, old photograph, priests, faces, images, church, charity, black, church militant, poem, jem poster, a change of scene, 1, another station, train, railway, relationship, motion, 2, first impressions, perception, reflection, relationship, farm, rural, evening, 3, deam, train, intimacy, 4, neolithic site: planning, place, margin, sea, 5, redefinition, walk, sea, sky, stone, 6, settling back, rain, weather, shore, memory, love, beach, poem, kate allen, rumpel stiltskin, fairy tale, miller’s daughter, intelligence, thought, gold, straw, spin, poem, maeve mccaughan, glass, candle, gloom, images, fiction, john morrow, the humours of bally turdeen, northern ireland, politics, sectarianism, alliance, belfast, prison, army, peelers, local, turberry’s meadows, dogs, poem, john birtwhistle, haysaving, a connemara journal, nature, farm, farming, mowing, daisies, daisy, hay, straw, weeds, rural, gaelic, work, community, yellow, poem, john birtwhistle, from a narrative of the english peasants’ revolt of 1381, john mason, jack farrier, jack carter, john sawyer, jack sower, john miller, jack viner, john smith, john fisher, jack skinner, john hayward, class, work, poem, d. j. o’sullivan, s country calendar, arran banners, flowers, musk mallow, landscape, nature, spring, weather, winter, seasons, growth, change, cycle, poem, d. j. o’sullivan, throwback, brown owl, bird, night, animal, poem, michael kelly, eerie northern lights: you can keep them, cold, weather, daffodils, bleak, grey, poem, translation, michael kelly, from the greek anthology, book v. 161, hedylos, asclepiadeds, aphrodite, sea, crones, channel, greece, book xi. 435, lucian, analyst, philosopher, philosophy, book xii. 16, strato, love, kiss, furtive, poem, augustus young, parents, family, home, father, mother, childhood, writer, poem, augustus young, public event, lord pakenham, childhood, occasion, family, poem, leo lavery, nightmare, dream, ghosts, death, surreal, train, pine, poem, leo lavery, thrush, bird, perception, eyes, staring, poem, padraig j daly, the days of christmas, season, thought, self, beginning, poem, padraig j daly, vicar street flats, exotic, light, ships, essay, h.u. business section, hu business section, jude the obscure, flatland, a romance of many dimensions, zeno, greek philosopher, paradoxes, science fiction, 2001 a space odyssey, a square, other worlds, e. a. abbott, spaceland, poem, meta mayne reid, open letter, to the honest ulsterman, have pen, will write, poet, fly, pest, critic canute, poem, simon curtis, the visit, hospital, ward, doctor, treatment, visitor, poem, victor price, the observer, birds, art, poetry, song, birdsong, nature, listening, poem, gavin ewart, the creation of the world, god, let there be light, earth, sea, world, origin, myth, life, beginning, poem, gavin ewart, limericks, limerick, writing, poetry, poem, mark burke, left in the air, street, road, stories, creation, images, house, cat, poem, killian o’donnell, incident at annaba, algeria, innocence, adolescence, sex, friendship, lust, poem, david cooke, visiting, childhood, self, friendship, poem, arthur watson, the goldfish, in the graveyard pond by wisbech church, fish, death, exposure, pollution, animals, dead, review, robert chapman, the craft of words, the poetry of john birtwhistle, review, ciaran carson, private but sulphurous, dr wilson as an arab, tom matthews, review, william t. mckinnen, testaments of sceptics, louis macneice: sceptical vision, terence brown, review, john constable, the poet of promise, living room, andrew waterman, review, terence mcmullan, translating machado, del camino, antonio machado, translated by michael smith, review, james simmons, mcgahern’s new novel, the leavetaking, john mcgahern,
Winter 75 Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Parker, Price Turner, Simmons, Ewart, Foley, Stephens, McLaughlin, Forbes, Middleton, Smith, Flintoff, Mac Caig, Young, Platinov, Stevenson, Cernuda, Holden, Motion, Adcock, Hughes, Cook, Abse, Kelly, O’Sullivan, Day, Dunn, Waterman, Clifton, Garfitt, Thomas, Peacock. Scupham, Morrow, McLaverty, Fiacc, Buchannan, Hewitt, Montague, Squires, Loneley, Dugdale, Brophy, Williams, Wilkin, Paulin, Muldoon, Carson, McMahon, Peskett, Ormsby, Mahon, Jude the Obscure. Cover by John Middleton.
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drama, stewart parker, the iceberg, lifeboat, sea, boat, ocean, southampton, ship, titanic, travel, sinking, disaster, the white star line, class, poem, w. price turner, beauty and the beasts, university, professor, academics, gender, appearance, men, women, poem, w. price turner, a prune names wittgenstein, food, eating, constipation, identity, philosophy, logic, philosophers, poem, w. price turner, sleeping beauty, sleep, desire, lust, sex, poem, w. price turner, topical interview, refugee, greece, freedom, travel, poem, james simmons, john donne, writing, writer, author, poet, verse, sex, piety, religion, poem, james simmons, drunken emily, poetry, alcohol, drinking, poet, verse, poem, james simmons, like john clare, success, failure, writer, poet, lyric, career, poem, james simmons, nativity, milton, birth, god, prometheus, class, snow, poem, gavin ewart, on the tercentenary of milton’s death, john milton, poet, author, writer, literature, grandeur, writing, literature, poem, gavin 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on the classroom wall, school, life, time, growth, aging, pupils, poem, tom mclaughlin, come soon, friendship, friends, leisure, saturday, drinking, home, poem, tom mclaughlin, this was a night, drinking, women, desire, lust, drunkenness, night out, poem, tom mclaughlin, the old jokes are the best, friends, friendship, loneliness, poem, tom mclaughlin, lying awake, marriage, relationship, fight, conflict, tension, ice, sleep, anger, poem, duncan forbes, greetings, solitude, isolation, recluse, seclusion, poem, duncan forbes, internal memo, correspondence, letters, stock responses, replying, communication, poem, duncan forbes, first-born, baby, foetus, pregnancy, womb, birth, parenthood, poem, kate middleton, spinster sister, age, cooking, reproduction, female, woman, flavour, sensation, fertility, poem, iain crichton smith, flowers, primroses, creation, god, daisies, doodling, design, roses, poem, iain crichton smith, from this window, landscape, view, hills, snow, summer, valley, poem, iain crichton smith, don quixote, adventure, knight, blue morning, poem, everard flintoff, the london sales, shopping, humour, selfridges, d. h. evans, word play, poem, norman maccaig, small lochs, obsessions, loch ness, loch lomond, loch shin, loch tay, dog loch, loch na barrack, landscape, water, lock of the corrie of the green waterfalls, poem, norman maccaig, incident, lairig, cairngorms, ants, insects, scotland, poem, august young, to a friend, false teeth, tooth, body, bodies, mouth, affection, fiction, andrey platonov, takyr, translation, michael pursglove, russian, firyuza, kopet-dag, kurds, conflict, horsemen, iran, turkey, border, war, prisoner, women, sex, abuse, wives, home, foreign, place, travel, captivity, captive, imprisonment, slavery, illness, childhood, nomads, nomadism, death, grief, poem, anne stevenson, the mudtower, estuary, new year, swans, winter, sea, water, nature, landscape, mud, tower, seabirds, birds, poem, anne stevenson, ars amatoria, ovid, the art of love, dundonian, sex, love, relationship, poem, anne stevenson, song without music, tenement, housing, occupation, home, ruin, buildings, city, poem, terence mcmullan, misfortune, luis cernuda, spanish, cloud, fortune, words, poem, molly holden, where the dream came from, dreaming, landscape, memory, rooms, space, miner bees, poem, molly holden, stopping places, car, journey, vehicle, travel, village, holiday, children, childhood, site-seeing, poem, molly holden, six out of seven, garden, bush, plant, summer, survival, poem, andrew motion, away, house, loss, emptiness, ruin, past, distance, memory, poem, andrew motion, the avenue, trees, stumps, silence, nature, loss, timber, footprints, poem, fleur adcock, river, niger, mungo park, thames, wanganui, clutha, water, rivers, poet, explorer, travel, poem, glyn hughes, the acropolis, athens, greece, art, architecture, heat, poem, glyn hughes, penelope on the islands, deportment, waiting, fiance, poem, glyn hughes, at a monastry on siphnos, monastery, numinous, sifnos, greece, peasant, building, poem, stanley cook, life in a yard, garden, outdoors, neighbours, home, pets, poem, stanley cook, the canals, water, nature, river, reflections, mirror, vision, poem, dannie abse, proof, for stewart evans, photography, camera, photograph, wedding, time, memory, poem, michael kelly, african haiku, africa, egrets pawpaws, animals, landscape, image, sound, poem, d. j. o’sullivan, the hearing-aid, listening, hear, sound, chickens, birds, song, poem, d. j. o’sullivan, mistaken identity, ring ouzel, mistle thrush, thrush, cock, birds, eggs, poem, david day, in the chancy spring, nature, birds, swallow, animals, creatures, season, rural, poem, douglas dunn, going home, journey, return, road, traffic, bradford, travel, returning, poem, andrew waterman, the pattern, kenningham, camberwell, lewisham, strand, london, urban, city, brighton, beach, south bank, traffic, euston, travel, relationship, place, tooley street, shad thames, liverpool street, poem, harry clifton, carnival sickness, spectacle, night, sensation, colour, holding hands, yellow, poem, harry clifton, picaro, night, character, adventure, fiction, fictions, author, poem, harry clifton, metempsychosis, death, soul, hospital, spirit, dog, poem, roger garfitt, homage to james k. baxter, night, morning, mars, old holborn, friendship, men, road, social security, lethe, poem, r. s. thomas, wanting out, dante, virgil, body, dead, ghosts, spirit, descent, poem, alan peacock, shetland re-visited, revisit, muckle ossa, dore holm, scotland, sea, island, landscape, cave, rock, hamnavoe, easterwick, ronas hill, shore, boat, navir, poem, peter scupham, pompeii: plaster casts, pliny, italy, misenum, rome, classical world, landscape, architecture, body, death, bone, ghost, fiction, john morrow, the revenge of tarbrush higgins, 1939, war, war office, sheik, uncle, belfast, city, sniper, fiction, bernard mclaverty, where the tides meet, torr head, ballycastle, dog, dogs, guns, shooting, rabbits, death, grief, burial, animals, pets, mourning, essay, padraic fiacc, fiacc answers back, honest ulsterman, faber, poets, poetry, religion, communication, the wearing of the black, ormsby, simmons, gerald dawe, poem, george buchanan, italian incident, beach, nature, tourism, industry, hotel, italy, bay, poem, george buchanan, lewis mumford, architecture, cities, city, humanity, poem, george buchanan, amabel, nostalgia, appearance, society, elegance, behaviour, decorum, class, woman, individual, poem, george buchanan, elderly widows, death, loss, solitude, loneliness, poem, george buchanan, pastoral, relationship, meeting, landscape, thomas hardy, poem john hewitt, as you like it, law reform, meeting, committee, shakespeare, performance, poem, john montague, the errigal road, hill head road, neighbour, neighbourhood, whiskey, curragh, fairy thorn height, violence, local, aughnacloy, omagh courthouse, conflict, poem, john montague, border lake, weather, cold, winter, swans, ice, poem, geoffrey squires, a sequence, sea, rock, tourists, elsewhereness, strand, boat, arrival, pier, light, nature, shore, cliffs, beauty, poem, michael longley, hare, animal, movement, clumsy, survival, poem, michael longley, odyssey, circe, nausicaa, calypso, penelope, odysseus, sex, women, affection, poem, norman dugdale, hurstwood, edmund spenser, poet, history, chaucer, place, burnley, north, time, past, family, farmstead, poem, norman dugdale, some notes for impartial observers, village, local, poem, michael brophy, the blackboard, teacher, teaching, school, chalk, lessons, erasing, removal, habit, poem, patrick williams, progress report, tired, exhaustion, life, survival, suffering, prayer, father, mother, poem, paul wilkins, body politics, politics, w. b. yeats, that girl standing there, helen of troy, women, maud gonne, ireland, malin’s head, troubles, poem, tom paulin, cadaver politic, grey, coffins, destruction, skin, landscape, waste, poem, tom paulin, arthur, emigration, individual, new york, south america, orinocco, river plate, buenos aires, leaving, poem, tom paulin, young funerals, death, youth, grief, fear, misery, poem, paul muldoon, ned skinner, family, aunt, butcher, pigs, far, past, relationships, poem, paul muldoon, the rucksack, lars, expedition, journey, mountain, guidance, survival, poem, ciaran carson, soot, cleaning, chimney sweep, sweeping, house, home, work, labour, fire, fireplace, autumn, soil, growth, pansy, poem, ciaran carson, the incredible shrinking man, gaberdine, childhood, growth, growing up, size, bodies, clothing, body, siblings, children, poem, trevor mcmahon, joseph, bodies, body, fingers, fingertips, intimacy, poem, trevor mcmahon, goliath, gods, giant, stone, david and goliath, poem, will peskett, hedge-school, love songs, friendship, dandies, writing, writers, poem, will peskett, summer heat, busride, bus, city, journey, work, transport, urban, poem, frank ormsby, natural history section, butterflies, nature, museum, butterfly, death, dead, english orange tip, irish common blue, exhibition, stuffed birds, poem, frank ormsby, the barracks, flowerbeds, weeding, flowers, army, cage, fences, guns, gardening, domestic, poem, derek mahon, a true story, 1944, d-day, war, world war 2, paul eluard, poems, royal air force, france, history, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, the bad companions, dan duggan, tarzan, hugh kerr, review, james simmons, the iambic pentameter is alive and well and living in belfast, out of my time, john hewitt, review, edna longley, fire and air, the snow party, derek mahon, review, ciaran carson, escaped from massacre?, north, seamus heaney, review, ciaran carson, a farewell to english, michael harnett, au revoir, review, peter burnett, seats in the gallery, without frenzy, sean clarkin, a garland for captain fox, robert greacen, a kind of trust, brendan kennelly, in the lion house, daniel reardon, review, peter burnett, screams and quiet voices, sarah, in passing, eithne strong, the hardening ground, shaun traynor, review, john kelly, satchmo, picasso, hitler, scott and some others, the love horse, john mole, elsewhere, david selzer, review, judith hutchinson, a good western, women in the wall, julia o’faolain, review, james simmons, closer to the source, stamping ground, maurice leitch, review, james simmons, recent reading, william price turner, the moral rocking-horse, patrick gavin, george buchanan, brian moore, the great victorian collection, review, pamphlets in brief,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Ormsby, Ewart, Eastman, Harrison, Matthews, Forbes, Johnston, Greacen, Waterman, Williams, Young, McCoy, Muldoon, Peskett, Deane, Buchannan, Marshall, Curtis, Jude the Obscure, Walter Mahon-Smith. Cover by John Middleton.
drama, frank ormsby, tragic anguish, poet, anthologist, disciple, ulster, bombs, bullets, writing, author, confrontation, weeping, emotion, expression, troubles, satire, art, violence, war, conflict, culture, poem, gavin ewart, choruses from a nativity play, 1, introductory, oola-moola bird, fear, 2, pre-natal, alliterative verse, cold, freezing, winter, messiah, religion, birth, blood, herod harrods, sopwith camel, 3, post-natal, lamb, vitality, 4, final, love, suffering, christmas, poem, j. m. eastman, the corset, body, appearance, fat, clothing, dress, poem, j. m. eastman, after the ball, cinderella, class, appearance, fairytale, love, clothing, poem, tony harrison, after rufinus, helias, 378 ad, beauty competition, body, appearance, miss bum, backsides, poem, tom matthews, concrete cottages, montgomeryshire 1870, buildings, landlord, tenants, tenantry, housing, university of wales, history, resilience, poem, tom matthews, dr wilson as an arab, edinburgh, calotype, photograph, camera, missionary, bombay, sepia, record, history, poem, tom matthews, good, parson, nervous breakdown, morality, good, goodness, help, social services, religion, poem, duncan forbes, the touch, theatre, covent garden, verona, dancer, beggar, homelessness, poverty, ballet, class, empathy, disability, drugs, poem, duncan forbes, peace talks, relationships, break-up, love, fiction, fred johnston, bittersweet, sanctuary, home, security, mourning, death, father, da, family, finglas, memory, remembering, past, relationships, love, burial, funeral, parent, returning, poem, robert greacen, a poet dying, in memory of clifford dyment, death, midlands, boyhood, memory, dreams, monmouthshire, sunset, wales, journey, green, dying, sleep, poem, andrew waterman, addiscombe, d. h. lawrence, colworth road, 1908-1911, home, london, memories, place, local, exile, poem, andrew waterman, not on the agenda, environmental studies, business, distraction, nature, ireland, rural, troubles, university, poem, peanuts in troy, new grub street, suburbs, solitude, home, housing, writing, writer, poor, alone, poem, patrick williams, teacher, black, teaching, pupil, love, pity, winter, master, school, poem, patrick williams, lost seed, gardening, plants, earth, spring, care, flowers, guilt, loss, growth, life, death, poem, patrick williams, seize the day, sleep, waking, dreams, light, dark, fear, present, poem, patrick williams, gunning to paradise, shankill road, teague, prod, falls, belfast, troubles, northern ireland, england, emigration, poem, augustus young, irish danta gradha, no. 17, sex, wife, relationship, passion, maid, anon., no. 100, woman, love, sex, relationship, age, old, elderly, youth, flesh, body, poem, jack mccoy, such a melancholic river god, water, poem, paul muldoon, duffy’s circus, moy, god, religion, ireland, childhood, performance, clowns, poem, paul muldoon, mules, animals, horses, donkeys, mule, birth, afterbirth, poem, william peskett, mercy-killing, driving, car, vehicle, road, road-kill, rabbit, pain, sympathy, grief, poem, william peskett, the colleen’s secret, graves, graveyard, corpse, body, love, lovers, essay, seamus deane, an irish intelligentsia: reflections on its desirability, intellectuals, literature, imagination, society, ireland, conflict, ira, troubles, poem, george buchanan, the time of our lives, contemporaneity, nathaniel tarn, war, submarine, boats, ulster, sea, coast, coastline, history, army, warfare, troops, europe, peace, poem, douglas marshall, watering place, portrush, summer, holiday, resort, seaside, coast, north coast, poem, simon curtis, beyond the derelict station, starlings, birds, ruin, nature, flight, flying, flock, wings, sound, winter, essay, the hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, c. s. lewis, christianity, ulster, literature, writer, narnia, aslan, the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, children’s literature, religion, letter, walter mahon-smith, review, terrence mcmullan, translating lorca, gipsy balland, federico garcia lorca, translated by michael hartnett, review, arthur mcmahon, spanish/irish, catalan poems, george mcwhirter, review, james simmons, vivid, but…, a tired tribe, michael brophy, review, edna longley, a minor poet, poems, padraic fallon review, james simmons, the man most touched, the wearing of the black, an anthology of contemporary ulster poetry, padraic fiacc, review, robert chapman, more than an entertainer, west strand visions, james simmons, review, william t. mckinnon, a new book on macneice, time was away: the world of louis macneice, terrence brown, alec reid, review, descartes’ dream, w. j. harvey, review, spent the morning, poems and drawings, john pakenham, review, no ivory tower, meta mayne reid, review, poems, james mckenna, review, shetland, like the world, robin munro, review, scissors for a one-armed tailor, john hewitt, review, the cave of night, john montague, review, night ferry, norman dugdale, review, odour of blood, padraic fiacc, review, interim notes on recent reading, dermot healy, soundlings 2, seamus heaney, derek mahon, spoken irish poetry, naked reason, george buchanan, john hewitt, out of my time, haydn murphy, broadsheet 21,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Dunn, McCaul, Paulin, Peacock, Carson, McMullan, Daly, Lavery, McLaverty, Brown, Kelly, Burleigh, Lynch, Greacen, Allen, Skinner, Burke, McKenna, Curtis, Hogan, Pursglove, Simmons, Morgan, Foley, Ewart, Longley, McIntyre, Deane, Holden, Jude the Obscure. Cover by John Middleton.
poem, douglas dunn, the come-on, society, class, culture, popular, writing, poem, jack mccoy, town, twilight, western, badlands, gunmen, trail’s end, bar, saloon, poem, jack mccoy, for anita glenn, after the persian, sufi, love, gift, magic, rasht, shiraz, quayen, heart, lovers, poem, tom paulin, a new society, past, forgetting, memory, housing, houses, buildings, dead, death, domesticity, poem, alan peacock, home from holiday, house, time, place, ownership, familiarity, belongings, poem, alan peacock, message in a bottle, vulnerability, loneliness, rescue, instability, lost, sea, knowledge, poem, ciaran carson, belleek, ceramics, pottery, character pieces, tobacco brewer, jack at sea, prisoner of love, tea, food, eating, domestic, design, craft, cloud, sky, beauty, moment, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, luis cernuda, poem, I want to be alone in the south, spain, landscape, singing, song, beauty, geography, desert, darkness, light, rain, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, manuel altolaguirre, poem, beach, boats, sea, shore, sun, shadow, presence, fishermen, open book, poem, padraig j. daly, toucher, road, travel, rejection, age, old, experience, empathy, poem, padraig j. daly, wisdom, mind, thought, contradictions, consciousness, uncertain, poem, padraig j. daly, sagart III, winter, solitude, rural, countryside, marginal, liminal, silence, communication, tale, story, age, old, experience, poem, leo lavery, st malachy’s college, for john murray, school, pupil, adolescence, endurance, pain, nostalgia, education, protection, separation, caesar, cato, pleasure, fiction, bernard mclaverty, anodine, food, ireland, howard’s end, seaside, beach, death, loss, care, mother, parent, recovery, holiday, memory, books, reading, hopkins, drawing, sketching, poetry, english, teaching, teacher, trinity college dublin, friendship, social behaviour, fiction, bernard mclaverty, a pornographer woos, beach, holiday, sea, ogee, family, lust, body, motherhood, writing, writer, mother-in-law, children, family, affection, love, cunt, sex, desire, poem, jonathan brown, the amateur, rent-boy, contempt, bus-fare, saviour, prostitution, affair, poem, jonathan brown, he flounces out, love, affair, homosexuality, gay, emotions, fight, tantrum, break-up, poem, michael kelly, coming sober to bed, intimacy, attention, sensation, body, mind, experience, poem, michael kelly, ember day, romance, love, relationship, restaurant, affection, prayer, poem, david burleigh, pause, recognition, relationships, memory, remembering, regret, moment, crowd, people, poem, david burleigh, rape, for jeanine, sex, abuse, violence, lust, desire, strength, trauma, human rights, vulnerability, poem, liam lynch, o’rahilly’s true love, relationship, romance, passion, sex, tete-a-tete, lover, experience, poem, liam lynch, o’rahilly’s first love, misogyny, sex, virginity, poem, robert greacen, knowing and not knowing, knowledge, wisdom, tao, lao-tsu, taoism, silence, silent, chinese, po chu-i, writing, speaking, contradiction poem, k. allen, a voice, prophet, prophecy, preacher, preaching, antrim, down, christianity, salvation, communication, poem, knute skinner, children, son, parenthood, childhood, fulfillment, adulthood, singing, jumping, poem, mark burke, silver on black, death, cats, kittens, drowning, survival, life, breath, culling, animals, murder, poem, james n. mckenna, after autumn, leaves, nature, rain, fall, london, seasons, fashion, change, mccabe, society, city, kensington, poem, gabriel curtis, awaiting battle, war, army, trenches, disability, amputee, amputation, injury, sympathy, wound, gun, thomson-gun, arm, body, fiction, desmond hogan, teddy-boys, teddy boys, 1950s, subculture, culture, clothing, ireland, youth, small town, james dean, innocence, sex, adolescence, tragedy, drowning, death, genitals, nakedness, local, essay, michael pursglove, andrey platonov: an introduction, russian, the locks of yepiphan, for future use, red star, the third son, a flower in the earth, poem, james simmons, west strand visions, watching, view, observation, port stewart, sights, evening, sunset, seaside, north coast, poem, james simmons, last port, dying, death, body, organs, flesh, sensation, army, war, soldier, defender, defence, attack, poem, james simmons, definitions, thanksgiving, emotion, love, pride, poem, edwin morgan, from the new divan, 62, storyteller, tale, story, sinbad, flying carpet, monsters, sea, fairytale, magic, one hundred and one nights, 63, galilee, tourism, travelling, religion, pilgrimage, paviours, 64, smoke, children, poverty, radiation, destruction, refugee, poem, michael foley, through the gateless gate, zen, chinese, koans, ten irish poets, career, success, sloth, authenticity, poem, michael foley, the dance of thought, mind, thinking, life, aspirations, acceptance, failure, poem, gavin ewart, a double view, izaak walton, the complete angler, 1652, joan c. southerland, club international, 1974, pleasure, piscator, history, england, yanks, limeys, verjuice, past, sex, poem, gavin ewart, the elizabethan american paperback song, sex, the lover and his lass, lust, poem, michael longley, for marie, a prayer, irish, baby, reticence, quotation, mary, ann, pregnancy, motherhood, baby, a telegram, birth, pearl, oyster, creation, poem, michael longley, dream, intimacy, body, hair, sleep, poem, michael longley, on sitting down to read keats’s ‘on sitting down to read king lear once again’ once again, title, reading, writing, parthenogenesis, johannes factotum, literature, influence, poem, tom macintyre, weasel, road, night, moon, dog, fear, animals, anticipation, rats, anxiety, threat, danger, poem, seamus deane, a deeper exile, sea, desire, longing, nature, pathetic fallacy, loneliness, weather, emotions, loss, love, poem, molly holden, cargoes, summer, seasons, wind, weather, flowers, fruit, burgeoning, growth, nature, spring, autumn, memory, sensation, imagination, poem, molly holden, eastnor castle, ledbury, malvern, chiddock, yews, nature, woods, family, visit, weekend, happiness, memoir, robert greacen, denis ireland: a memoir, belfast, rosemary street, p. e. n., campbell’s cafe, from the jungle of belfast, eulogy, letter, robert greacen, letter to the editor, essay, the hu business section, the h. u. business section, jude the obscure, edward hopper, art, painting, painter, subject-matter, work, thomas eakins, robert henri, american artists, ash-can school, brian o’doherty, the comedians, nighthawks, office at night, review, john hewitt, the centaur at the house of prayer, the poetry of austin clarke, austin clarke: collected poems, review, james simmons, wise, balanced and beautiful, december bride, sam hanna bell, review, ciaran carson, ryan on the rocks, please, ravenswood, richard ryan, review, james simmons, neither clergyman nor schoolteacher, tyrone folk quest, michael j. murphy,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Simmons, Ewart, Enright, Warman, Gill, Young, Matthews, Lavery, Morrow, McLaughlin, Smith, Carson, Buchanan, Strong, Watson, Cruise, Galvin, Hewitt, Longley, Curtis, Clifton, Abse, Corbiere, Platinov, Jude the Obscure, Cover by John Middleton.
poem, james simmons, young husband, marriage, wife, solitude, affairs, relationships, work, jobs, privacy, suicide, poem, james simmons, for thomas moore, author of moore’s irish medleys, singer, song, music, courage, peace, hope, poem, james simmons, smiler simmons, emotions, happiness, health, smiling, smile, comedy, laugh, paradox, poem, james simmons, hell, clay pigeons, st francis, poem, gavin ewart, the homespun philosophies, complexity, simplicity, life, poetry, consolation, poets, poem, gavin ewart, the sublime and the ridiculous, love, sex, desire, sensation, emotion, heat, poem, d. j. enright, days of the underground, social behaviour, people, society, city, subway, london, moods, poetry, writing, politeness, empathy, poem, d. m. warman, man of letters, poetry, writing, author, novel, writer, poem, d. m. warman, expedition, whaling, sailing, sailor, adventure, whale, travel, poem, eunan gill, portraits on a kitchen wall, art, kennedy, jesus, domestic, cuba, crucifixion, hero, idol, poem, augustus young, oedipal kink, sigmund freud, circus, lust, violence, childhood, mother, mam, poem, augustus young, family scene, father, brother, childhood, play, home, parenthood, poem, tom matthews, bees, arse, words, joke, comedy, love, emotion, poem, leonard lavery, testament, blind, miracle, saviour, healed, story, bible, fiction, john morrow, jason, childhood, names, belfast, identity, c stream, poem, william mclaughlin, old irish woman on an eighteenth century bridge, age, elderly, swans, nature, clothing, appearance, watching, poem, iain crichton smith, lewis, place, belonging, fishermen, crofters, home, poem, iain crichton smith, the minimal land, landscape, love, weather, bare, seasons, bareness, emptiness, poem, ciaran carson, the casting of the bell, craft, metal, ore, mould, sound, poem, ciaran carson, linen, photograph, cold, mill, labour, work, snow, weaving, poem, ciaran carson, limestone, quarry, sound, vehicle, machinery, listening, poem, ciaran carson, agianapa, george seferis, sun, light, bronze, landscape, sensation, heat, darkness, touch, fishermen, island, mediterranean, ayia napa, greece, poem, george buchanan, irish in london, ireland, england, poets, environment, influence, past, irishness, poem, george buchanan, family, father, mother, reunion, death, past, poem, arthur watson, white goat, animal, escape, freedom, incarceration, entrapment, communication, words, coaxing, poem, arthur watson, to come of age, growth, self, freedom, incarceration, entrapment, wholeness, adulthood, emotions, poem, eithne strong, retarded child, guilt, disability, fear, responsibility, medicine, freedom, disappointment, emotions, motherhood, parenthood, poem, colin cruise, at york, river ouse, bat, evening, night, sensation, privacy, experience, poem, patrick galvin, prisoners of the tower, imprisonment, incarceration, entrapment, crime, freedom, thought, thinking, contemplation, offence, government, law, death, voices, rights, human rights, poem, john hewitt, strangers and neighbours, jews, society, foreigners, foreign, jewish, judaism, culture, passover, auschwitz, religion, race, synagogue, other, poem, edna longley, ten cliquey clerihews, poets, author, john hewitt, john montague, seamus heaney, michael longley, the ulster poet, derek mahon, paul muldoon, northern irish, jimmy simmons, michael foley, ulsterman, faber, review, james simmons, according to montague, the faber book of irish verse, john montague, poem, simon curtis, satie, at the end of term, henry james, literature, studying, student, lawrence, theme, structure, imagery, tone, daniel deronda, dorrit, flaubert, april, education, four poster poems, poem, ciaran carson, half-moon lake, dreams, ice, imagination, water, moon, night, children, poem, roy mcfadden, the house, domestic, romance, seasons, home, poem, derek mahon, a noise like leaves, leaf, afterlife, autumn, death, heaven, life, poem, stewart parker, eye, night, dark, beach, water, poem, james simmons, wings, body, feathers, growth, body, flight, poem, harry clifton, the roof-strippers, work, labour, undoing, past, destruction, irony, ghost, house, building, poem, harry clifton, blue room, interior, billiard room, games, smoke, money, poem, dannie abse, ghosts, angels, unicorns, haunting, goethe, dreams, fantasy, fantastical, myth, supernatural beings, immortality, neutered, innocent, hebrew, disappear, invisible, darkness, poem, tristan corbiere, translation, val warner, guitar, affair, romance, sex, cigarette, poem, tristan corbiere, blind man’s cries, low breton, the old woman, deus misericors, cross, nails, religion, sore, injury, death, body, eye, paradise, christianity, armorica, christ, prayer, menez-arrez, fiction, andrey platonov, a flower in the earth, translation, michael pursglove, grandfather, grandparents, age, elderly, sight, eyes, vision, childhood, sleep, boredom, life, death, meaning, flower, ploughmen, medicine, essay, h. u. business section, hu, jude the obscure, misanthropy, ring lardner, j. f. powers, otto friedrich, review, jude the obscure, sagosis, stories and plays, flann o’brien, review, edna longley, the truly gaelic book, the poor mouth, myles na gopaleen/ flann o’brien, review, george buchanan, poet in an academic climate, the mark of the maker: a portrait of helen waddell, monica blackett, review, john cronin, fact, fiction and ulster, for all that i found there, caroline blackwood, how many miles to babylon, jennifer johnston, review, james simmons, a man with the elgin marbles in his mouth, from the jungle of belfast, dennis ireland, review, edna longley, an unhealthy reputation, thomas kinsella, selected poems 1956-1968, new poems 1973, review, james simmons, no gunflight at o.k. corral, a exploded view, michael longley,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Ewart, Daly, Young, Morrow, Phillips, Brown, Carson, McLaughlin, Paulin, Ireland, Pallister, McFadden, Greacen, Taylor, Strong, Duggan, Jude the Obscure, Cover by John Middleton.
poem, gavin ewart, the lives of the poets, poetry, authors, authorship, joan of arc, tribute, verse, careers, madness, translation, lifestyle, poem, gavin ewart, soldiers’ song, soldier, masturbation, troy, sex, desire, lust, rape, greeks, classical world, war, copulation, circe, whores, women, poem, gavin ewart, ending, relationship, romance, break-up, love, poem, padraig j. daly, final letter to elizabeth, relationship, apology, forgiveness, love, romance, separation, distance, communication, poem, padraig j. daly, anne, admiration, romance, rose, distance, separation, removal, sadness, sorrow, poem, padraig j. daly, after viewing hours, night, search, desire, loneliness, solitude, poem, augustus young, hero: highgate pond, swimming, bathing, men, strength, lifebouy club, sport, resilience, age, practice, English Channel, rubicon, poem, augustus young, the suitors, la cage d’or ballroom, clothing, suits, dress, dressing up, fiction, john morrow, beginnings, sex, youth, belfast, tyrella, erection, breasts, sex education, glue, molestation, abuse, poem, frank ormsby, midfielder, football, sport, soccer, poem, frank ormsby, waiting for the bride, church, morality, wedding, marriage, nervous, satyr, maid, emotions, poem, stone, past, ruin, church, bell-tower, stables, horses, rock, poem, juliet phillips, sea, wind, shipwreck, wreck, ship, boat, waves, ruin, poem, jonathan brown, scenes from domestic life, 1, the hearth, fire, home, warmth, encampment, family, intimacy, 2, the garden, grass, child, things, laburnum, future, 3, the evening, wife, flowers, hyacinth, touch, night, twilight, child, laburnum, midges, family, 4, changes, age, aging, time, routine, home, family, body, poem, ciaran carson, moving in, home, house, decoration, nesting, painting, unpacking, belongings, cold, heat, intimacy, new, silence, poem, paul mclaughlin, requiem for a spouse, death, funeral, mourning, sadness, grief, comfort, family, poem, tom paulin, from, sensation, nature, shore, sea, home, craft, wood, happy, happiness, solitude, light, hermitage, island, memoir, denis ireland, marcel proust and my aunt florrie, siene valley, painting, painter, artist, impressionists, paris, memoirs, hotel splendide, snobbery, class, from the jungle of belfast, poem, trevor pallister, junior music, children, performance, instruments, music, noise, poem, roy mcfadden, daisymount terrace, war, school, childhood, place, moat, dundonald, armies, church quarter, brother, innocence, poem, robert greacen, wee jimmy, school, mitching, youth, big time, success, money, clothcap, poem, peter taylor, consider, love, leaving, home, leaving, loss, fear, poem, peter taylor, chilblain, cold, weather, north atlantic, sea, ireland, nature, landscape, rain, squalls, storm, hamlet, time, owls, poem, eithne strong, statement to offspring, mother, children, family, devotion, independence, growth, separation, self, space, motherhood, parent, poem, matt duggan, the oul’ mcmahon spade, history, politics, politicians, peace, fermanagh, digging, labour, tools, essay, h. u. business section, hu, jude the obscure, cruiskeen lawn, africa, myles na gopaleen, cgopaleen, brien o’nolan, flann o’brien, privilege, race, gastro gnome, appendix a, some practical jokes, friendship, clique, sexton blake, appendix b, rosemary lane, niall montgomery, dublin, review, john moulden, come day, go day, send sunday, the songs and life story, told in his own words, of john maguire, robin morton, review, james simmons, a man flourishing, sam hanna bell,
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translation, poem, derek mahon, after nerval, french, satire, mute phenomena, objects, things, god, animation, life, translation, poem, derek mahon, after eluard, french, name, write, writing, old, inscription, inscribe, word, world, life, translation, omar s. pound, poem, amir khusrow dehlavi, persian, 13th century, dreams, night, wine, pouring, vines, translation, ciaran carson, early irish, homeless, bed, comfort, cold, poverty, wind, rain, weather, death, homelessness, translation, ciaran carson, early irish, housed, home, house, light, god, garden, outdoors, nature, translation, ciaran carson, welsh, eaves, winter, rain, milk, sound, weather, ice, roof, shelter, poem, michael longley, a small hotel, mind, consciousness, picnic, thought, memory, poem, michael longley, boogie, louisiana delta, dance, dancing, music, jimmy yancey, fiction, andrey platonov, the seventh man, russian, translation, alexander pavlov, michael pursglove, poverty, survival, life, concentration camp, war, red army, death, partisan, minsk, soldiers, execution, guns, poem, michael coyle, first child, baby, infant, clothing, neighbours, poem, pere gimferrer, opus 98, translation, arthur terry, catalan, music, brahms, suffering, poetry, words, art, fact, destruction, emotion, feelings, poem, stanley cook, klee: landscape with yellow birds, ekphrasis, painting, art, paul klee, trees, grass, satan, composition, poem, stanley cook, geriatric wing, elderly, old, age, institution, poem, padraig j. daly, departure, leaving, clothing, appearance, dignity, fragility, fragile, poem, padraig j. daly, sagart ii, farm, enclosure, border, privacy, trenches, separation, peace, protection, defence, self, place, poem, padraig j. daly, socialist, youth, change, deviation, religion, prayer, tradition, socialism, justice, poem, cathal lagan, all my warm beginnings, abraham, faith, god, syllogism, belief, religion, comfort, obedience, obey, poem, cathal lagan, metamorphosis, franz kafka, open door, animals, god, farm, loss, waiting, relationship, break-up, poem, gavin ewart, the immense advantage, a cathedral courtship, kate douglas wiggin, english, british, england, new world, stephen spender, influence, colonialism, america, europe, global relations, american poets, poetry, whitman, ginsberg, creeley, sinsburg, culture, auden, mcclure, blakey, form, verse, zukovsky, dallas, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, the poor man’s youngest son, fairytale, dream, princess, swineherd, dragon, gardener, leaving, adventure, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, the dragon’s heart, dragon, women, princess, devil, slayer, slay, fairytale, hunchback, disability, egg, duck, heart, death, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, king, wood, forrest, fishing, elm, elm-crown, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, there was once an old woman, misery, misfortune, sadness, resilience, loneliness, happiness, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, myles na gopaleen, alcoholism, drinking, christian brothers, ucd, civil service, flann o’brien, brien o’nolan, myles na cgopaleen, the third policeman, at swim-two-birds, novelist, the hard life, literature, irish language, review, jude the obscure, you phonio saxo?, ross russell, bird lives, charlie parker, review, jude the obscure, winslow homer is as good as paul cezanne, winslow homer, john wimerding, poem, peter newson, folk museum, sadness, ploughshares, past, history,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Buchanan, O’Riordain, Gurney, Ward, Lavery, Paulin, Foley, Simmons, Burns, Stevens, McLaverty, Ewart, Peskett, Shuttleworth, Burke, Mac Sheoin, Morrow, Young, Hughes, Weir, Murphy, Jude the Obscure, Cover by John Middleton.
poem, george buchanan, esba, woman, character, colour, fat, revolutionary thought, sensation, amorous, sex, bodies, body, polished car, drive, driving, poem, george buchanan, a painter, creativity, art, picture, painting, beauty, form, figures, poem, george buchanan, anti-quixotic, quixote, dinner, guest, host, conversation, enthusiasm, behaviour, problems, reserve, talking, poem, george buchanan, at a cafe table, history, twitch, body, politics, captured city, loss, memory, courage, friends, poem, george buchanan, a sodden evening, drinking, drunk alcohol, talking, conversation, sorrow, care, poem, george buchanan, a believer, belief, family, work, vision, poem, george buchanan, proust, marcel, past, future, moment, strangeness, continuum, poem, sean o riordain, translation, tomas macsheoin, irish, change, horse, turnbull, sorrow, eyes, poem, sean o riordain, translation, tomas macsheoin, irish, duck, animal, bird, walking, stumble, dan direach, ver libre, rhythm, metrics, poetry, poem, john gurney, john clare stares at water, sky, love, mill, pouring, poured, priestcraft, thought, touch, sensation, experience, alone, solitude, light, poem, john gurney, the further progress of w. b. yeats, swan, images, poet, author, nature, elysian lust, broken tower, chinese hill, soul, von hugel, hegel, silence, death, poem, john gurney, elegy for t. s. eliot, burial, author, poet, quotations, words, pages, silence, women, dance, terpischore, venus, saturn, poem, herman m, ward, w. h. auden, author, poet, poetry, mind, anxious, cool, time, steel, water, poem, leonard levery, winter, belfast, weather, seasons, wind, adjectives, naked, gutters, leaves, bare, poem, tom paulin, in a northern landscape, europe, ingela, relationship, winter, rural, silence, cottage, sea, isolation, snow, herrings, sauerkraut, yoghurt, food, simplicity, austere, plain, domestic, home, domesticity, poem, tom paulin, discovery of a house, belfast, carson, grove, death, coffin, funeral, change, malone road, barnet’s park, aquinas hall, bishop of down and connor, louis macneice, fiction, michael foley, the journal of degradation, kreisler, drinking, beyond nietzche, teaching, squalor, school, humiliation, sensation, diary, pupil, student, ejaculation, masturbation, genovese, emotions, moods, poem, james simmons, the younger son, sleeping beauty, heroism, beauty, marriage, youth, desire, fate, kiss, trap, entrapment, poem, james simmons, death be not proud, dead, trade, work, violence, poem, jim burns, clonmacnois stonemason, offaly, stone, carve, craft, symbols, dragons, monsters, night, dark, history, ancient, ruin, poem, jim burns, at durrow, laois, oaks, church, building, religion, relic, history, poem, jean stevens, post-war game, pendle, mother demdike, grief, war, injury, witches, wound, soldier, trauma, memory, fiction, bernard mclaverty, the miraculous candidate, student, school, anxiety, religion, granny, grandmother, sanctity, god, holy, holiness, exam, test, prayer, saints, levitation, saint joseph of cupertino, examination, physics, gravity, poem, gavin ewart, the cricket of my friends, bowling, cricket, sport, youth, table tennis, coffee, friendship, writing, skills, talents, poem, william peskett, the nightowl’s examination, owl, birds, bird, fledglings, examination, body, knowledge, blood, cell, organs, examine, poem, paul shuttleworth, goodbye, musk ox, oxen, monkeys, animals, california, zoo, loss, poem, paul shuttleworth, bare knoll, love, voyeur hawk, wood, logs, red, bodies, poem, mark burke, day at the zoo, animals, enclosure, incarceration, habit, wild, beast, danger, guilt, exhibition, poem, tomas mac sheoin, judee sill, judie sill jesus was a crossmaker, carpenter, wood, craft, cross, trade, romans, christ, fiction, john morrow, tango for the three, belfast, holywood arches, holy land, south belfast, sandy row, great victoria street, lisburn, b’s, loyalist, recaps, freedom fighters, poem, augustus young, drowned man ran from fire, a 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Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Ormsby, Matthews, Porter, Carson, Young, Morrow, Greacen, Gallen, MacCaig, Jude the Obscure. Cover by: John Middleton.
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Note: Two Month issue. Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Gurney, Magee, McMahon, Carson, Muldoon, Simmons, Weir, Selzer, Greacen, Jude the Obscure, McLaughlin.
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Note: Three Month issue. Editors: Michael Foley/Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Foley, Cole, Parker, Muldoon, Morrow, Connolly, Matthews, Simmons, Weir, Gilbert, Ormsby, Jude the Obscure, Ewart, Hogan, Magee, Cumberlege, Pallister, Peskett, Longley.
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