HU Mar - Jun 79
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: McFadden, Paulin, Ormsby, Gorman, Magee, Morrow, Sheerin, Brennan, McMann, Simms, Denman, Buchanan, Montrose, Glendinning, King, Squires, Daly, Hutchinson, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Noel Connor.
coverage: poem, roy mcfadden, the grand central hotel, local, accent, mother tongue, elocution, place, setting, belfast, royal avenue, gresham street, wartime, war, city, urban, victoria square, bombs, bombing, poem, tom paulin, the other voice, belfast, literature, culture, friendship, plekhanov, homer, raskolnikov, history, art, theatre, poetry, russia, moscow, baltic, sound, voice, language, place, poem, from a belfast journal, frank ormsby, v, family, glasses, eyesight, vision, optician, sight, writer, writing, poet, vi, running, sunset, time, childhood, poem, michael gorman, postcards from galway, i, desertion, season, holiday,warwick hotel, salthill, walking, walk, relationship, leaving, ii, expectant, rahoon, domestic, class, change, iii, on the streets, place, ireland, individuals, eyre square, development, loss, iv, the pathologist, murder, death, tuam, corpse, cadaver, v, summer again, tinker, waiting, poem, wes magee, hwyl, vetch field, swansea, f. a. cup replay, football, sport, game, match, fiction, john morrow, lonely heart, 1944, ritz cinema, belfast, wartime, war, car accident, death, dum-dum bullet, allies, vehicles, troops, army, yanks, poem, joe sheerin, the lover, death, life, romance, love, family, loss, departure, leaving, father, poem, joe sheerin, habits, intimacy, relationship, kiss, kissing, spit, saliva, sex, change, home, poem, rory brennan, mask of a mycenean prince, face, power, monarchy, past, time, poem, rory brennan, to put your house in order, time, aging, building, decay, deterioration, youth, raven, poem, trevor mcmahon, honey, out of the strong came forth sweetness, bees, hive, fear, gender, queen, animals, male, female, poem, jacqueline simms, the bridge, river, building, infrastructure, weather, poem, peter denman, the vanity of wishing wells, coins, water, hope, tadpole, death, desire, poem, peter denman, thaw, ice, cold, winter, fire, snow, poem, george buchanan, jill’s death, flowers, life, mourning, memory, memorial, poem, david mont…

HU Jan - Feb 79
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Adcock, Heffer, McCarthy, Rumens, Sutherland-Smith, Newmann, Hamilton, Young, Stephens, Okudzhava, Apollinaire, Ewart, Porter, Maxton, Cassidy, Conran, Harrop, O’Brien, Wiljer, Simms, Paulin, Caws, Clothier, McMillan, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Michael Morgan.
coverage: poem, fleur adcock, syringa, charing cross embankment, city, society, drunks, outsiders, place, gentrification, urban, poem, fleur adcock, this ungentle music, mozart, leukaemia, illness, records, poem, linda heffer, crossroads, catholicism, church, dances, leisure, drinking, drink, behaviour, poem, patricia mccarthy, linguist, language, speaking, sex, intimacy, body, speech, relationship, distance, poem, patricia mccarthy, the other woman, difference, women, contrast, personality, poem, carol rumens, redundant, radio, sound, voices, coffee, morning, employment, job, work, poem, carol rumens, peasant, behaviour, mood, class, personality, communication, connection, wife, husband, marriage, poem, james sutherland-smith, bull, drunk, alcoholic, alcohol, humiliation, excretion, poem, joan newmann, the roadman, labour, work, spade, digging, poem, joan newmann, wesley again, pup, puppy, bike, bicycle, poem, joan newmann, anyone would be better anywhere, family, conflict, emotions, break-up, poem, robin hamilton, another glance at cosmology, god, cosmos, stars, star, sky, creation, poem, augustus young, song 1, don’t dance on my crumbs, birth, growth, life, family, rejection, down-and-out, outsider, hopelessness, hope, poverty, poem, michael stephens, gethsemane, christ, goodness, trying, good, christianity, morality, religion, understanding, punishment, violence, crucifixion, poem, bulat okudzhava, translation, robert reid, barmrack, brambrack, bread, fruit loaf, baking, cooking, food, eating, poem, from le bestiaire of guillaume apollinaire, translation, peter denman, goat of tibet, animals, animal, beasts, snake, cat, rabbit, camel, mouse, elephant, flea, locust, dolphin, crayfish, carp, peacock, owl, ibis, bull, god, fish, insects, mammals, birds, poem, gavin ewart, evening class at college of further education, students, studying, swinburne, english, language, school, grammar, words, sisiphus, knowledge, teaching, teacher, poem, peter porter, the bomb will not drop, g…

HU Jul - Oct 78
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Mahon, Muldoon, Heaney, Montague, Ormsby, Clarke, Peskett, McFadden, Rumens, Durcan, Stallworthy, Matthews, Adcock, Porter, Morrow, Ewart, Cam, Raine, Conran, Kennelly, Simmons, Cassidy, Paulin, Carson, Waterman, Buchanan, Williams, Johnstone, Longley, Platinov, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Geraldine Sweeney.
coverage: poem, derek mahon, autobiographies, the home front, stalingrad, war, domestic, baby, infant, wartime, bombs, child, childhood, soldiers, army, air-raid shelters, lucky strike, vera lynn, world war 2, second world war, yanks, memory, the lost girls, skegoneill primary school, play, pupil, kenya, neighbour, desire, loss, past, the last resort, beach, holiday, strandmore hotel, july, adolescence, desire, boyhood, rain, arcadia, the bicycle, cycling, raleigh, the third policeman, vehicle, travel, poem, paul muldoon, truce, war, soldiers, christmas, first world war, great war, german, polish, festival, world war 2, peace, poem, seamus heaney, high summer, child, heat, season, nature, fishing, rural, countryside, maggots, flies, insects, warmth, weather, writing, writer, poem, seamus heaney, polder, water, dyke, floods, dutch, intimacy, protection, poem, john montague, the absent lamb, affair, adultery, relationships, postmistress, sea, coastal, storm, weather, driving, survival, falling trees, seacast, poem, frank ormsby, the barn, wind, weather, elements, destruction, trees, neill’s plantation, river lane, johnny’s hill, the bed of straw, nature, man, names, poem, gillian clarke, ram, sheep, animal, body, nature, eye, october, buzzard, bone, remains, corpse, death, disintegration, growth, rotting, decomposition, black, brecon beacons, poem, william peskett, from belfast to suffolk, journey, low house, land, factory workers, landscape, fields, map, poem, roy mcfadden, luna, personality, north england, woman, family, individual, belmont road, life, death, dance, poem, carol rumens, ars vendendum, the beauty of advertising, work, job, presentation, performance, art, just eve, money, shopping, beloginings, love, desire, dress, consumerlit, books, bookshop, shopping, ideas, packages, author, literature, marketing, materiality, consumer culture, poem, paul durcan, a present for peregrine, only child, family, parents, detachment, home, reginald’s tower, waterford, tights, gift…

HU Mar - Jun 78
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Sommer, McGuickan, Jude the Obscure. Issue has a George Buchanan ‘Supplement’ featuring Buchanan, Simmons, Warner, McMahon, Ormsby. Reviews by Montrose, Simmons, Magee.
coverage: poem, piotr sommer, when, translation, hal stuart, steve sutton, polish, waiting, time, knowledge, thought, poem, piotr sommer, bare words, translation, charles w. mignon, polish, trees, words, tree, branches, trunk, leaves, timber, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, steve sutton, polish, inside the chair, invisible, movement, place, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, and so on, walking, stillness, walk, still, returning, poem, piotr sommer, translation, charles w. mignon, polish, from alma ata, travel, return, things, touch, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, rozewicz, reading, book, annotation, words, writing, study, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, home, mother, door, return, change, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, to theresa, typist, typing, texts, night, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, i am a notebook, for douglas, writing, notes, writer, footnotes, poem, poetry, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, first sentence, ustka, beach, writing, writer, stories, story, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, the best policy, literature, ambition, youth, learning, provincial, metropolitan, things pass away, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, between bus-stop and home, to pawel and helena, family, solitude, loneliness, alone, thought, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, a bit more effort please, work, translation, learning, education, job, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, match report, spain v. yugoslavia, viacheslav kuprianov, football, sports, distance, watching, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, it’s late, sleep, bed, family, home, night, dreams, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, troubles, wives, fight, domestic, disagreement, conflict, family, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, between two gestures, woman,…

HU Sept - Oct 73
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Mahon, Pound, Carson, Platonov, Coyle, Terry, Cook, Daly, Lagan, Ewart, Stuckenburg, Jude the Obscure, Newson, Cover John Middleton.
coverage: 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, …

HU Jan - Feb 78
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Dunn, Kelly, Sheerin, Percy, McCarthy, Deane, McAuley, Kieran, Markam, Gurney, Wiljer, Prorok, June the Obscure: Cover by Geraldine Sweeney featuring: Anthony Weir, John Hewitt, Padraic Fiacc, , Ciaran Carson, John Morrow, James Simmons. Note: Blank Pages were part of the issue.
coverage: poem, douglas dunn, seen in the street, tory, britain, british, politics, poem, douglas dunn, new nature poetry, pastoral, poet, pantheist, folk, shepherds, romanticism, pretence, poem, douglas dunn, the poetry of perception, france, amends, reflection, thought, vision, watching, morning, poem, translation, skythinos, xii, 22, michael kelly, from the greek anthology, love, desire, lust, honey, looking, frustration, poem, translation, palladas, x, 45, michael kelly, from the greek anthology, pride, sex, bodies, incontinence, life, poem, joe sheerin, settling in, neighbourhood, unease, welcome, home, house, place, poem, joe sheerin, the lemon, love letter, invisible ink, secret, private, communication, poem, joe sheerin, burying a baby, death, infant, funeral, burial, coffin, cremation, loss, poem, margaret percy, testament, death, god, religion, suicide, loss, poem, thomas mccarthy, the builder of statues, from pablo neruda, faces, face, work, craft, art, sculpture, flesh, death, clay, poem, thomas mccarthy, rarest thyme, herbs, garden, herb, olitory, growth, basil, rosemary, lavender, loss, memorial, illness, poem, john f. deane, love : poem, love poem, wood, forest, ash tree, sex, conception, pregnancy, nature, poem, james j. mcauley, take up thy bed, childhood, father, plague, body, sensation, illness, sickness, death, lares, baths, recovery, pain, poem, martin kieran, moonlight, autumn, sensation, scent, moon, night, relationship, marriage, death, sadness, depression, poem, e. a. markham, next in line, bishop, emigration, national health, britain, foreign, community relations, society, change, poem, john gurney, the blind dog, rilke, sonette an orpheus, sight, blindness, pet, animal, empathy, loss, sadness, pity, pathos, pain, poem, robert wiljer, the fat girl does her dance, collingwood, blue room, leisure, beer, drinking, dancing, bar, lust, body, bodies, strip tease, nudity, nakedness, stripper, drama, leszek prorok, translation, marcus wheeler, polish, the sl…

HU May - Sept 77
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Freeman, Glendenning, Ewart, Ireland, Phillips, Cooke, Foley, Parfitt, Lavery, Morrow, Kinghan, Rumens, Raine, McMahon, Lewis, Hendry, von Horvath, Cassidy, Carson, Simmons, Ormsby, Jude the Obscure, Cover by JAMM.
coverage: poem, richard freeman, point to point, journey, camp, canterbury, details, sweets, insects, sensation, beer tent, drinking, jag, ladybird, poem, richard freeman, the egg trick, game, spectacle, yolk, sound, breaking eggs, nature, poem, robin glendinning, watching cricket, family, marriage, relationship, annoyance, television, poem, gavin ewart, kipling’s imperialism and ours, the light that failed, trade, empire, africa, sudan, war, history, poem, gavin ewart, the believers, women, bodies, breasts, buttocks, pleasure, holy, sex, love, god, poem, gavin ewart, the “o” level complaint, poetry, poets, studying, school, literature, cannon, enemies, understanding, eliot, hughes, plath, larkin, yeats, smith, graves, auden, thomas, betjeman, cicero, exam, poem, gavin ewart, seasonal double haikus: the mating season, sex, smoking, youth, girls jewish, cunts, tongues, oral sex, poem, g. w. ireland, a valediction forbidding mourning, love, loss, relationships, learning, life, poem, g. w. ireland, light?, oral, lips, touch, cigarettes, smoking, touch, loss, need, want, relationship, poem, tom phillips, suburbans, birds, perspective, humans, suburbs, suburbia, landscape, poem, david cooke, cows, friesians, shorthorns, angus, cattle, distance, fields, milking, animals, muck, poem, michael foley, adaptations from rimbaud, my bohemian life, muse, poetry, writing, september, the great bear, the green man, food, ham, eating, lust, sex, parochial house, cold sore, health, poem, michael foley, poor people in church, class, poverty, society, religion, mass, bishop, poem, george parfitt, brick-gatherer, bricks, derelict, wasteland, collecting, stones, poem, leo lavery, mapgie, magpie, bird, sound, flight, clatter, fiction, john morrow, from the confessions of proinsias o’toole, chapel fields, protestant, catholic, bin lids, poem, michael kinghan, pangur bawn, glass, relationship, waiting, loss, searching, old flame, desire, seeking, summoning, supernatural, parnassus, magic, winter, poem…

HU Mar - Apr 77
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Cassidy, Wiljer, Allen, Scannell, Motion, Magee, Curtis, Muldoon, McMullan, Deane, Kennelly, Mignon, Longley, Wilkes, McMullan, Enright, Price, Fiacc, Aleer, Raine, McFadden, Harvey, Maxton, Milne, Gregson, Morrow, Jude the Obscure, Cover by JAMM.
coverage: poem, john cassidy, fires, moor fire, destruction, orange, watching, smoke, gorse, heather, barn fire, emergency, red, flame, firemen, ruin, danger, rural, city fire, urban, house, water, spectacle, element, poem, john cassidy, the hate-plant, plant, growth, garden, germination, autumn, care, nurture, evening, leisure, hate, work, poem, john cassidy, summer, season, blue sky, heat, warmth, neighbours, poem, robert wijer, the beer garden, drinking, wine, dionysius, passion, freedom, poem, kate allen, the snow queen, kay, cold, ice, spitzbergen, power, perversion, eternity, gerda, spring, flow, river, time, snow, poem, vernon scannell, dylan thomas country, place, rural, seasons, summer, winder, weather, spring, autumn, joy, pleasure, dance, nature, poem, vernon scannell, villanelle: of love and music, language, expression, communication, affection, romance, words, poem, andrew motion, no news from the old country, vermont, past, memory, place, wilderness, usa, america, distance, england, poem, andrew motion, wistman’s wood, dartmoor, granite, stones, trees, rural, city, nature, nothing, stillness, stone, boulder, poem, wes magee, biography of the skull, body, head, damage, injury, growing up, heads, war, soldiers, golgotha, calvary, life, death, burial ground, poem, wes magee, visiting a remote valley, travel, hiking, hike, mountains, landscape, anguish, sound, pain, poem, simon curtis, sports extra, pints, bar, drinking, sport, squash, club, conversation, games, poem, simon curtis, joe and rory, people, individuals, difference, poem, paul muldoon, the bearded woman, by ribera, fairground, gender, beard, masculinity, femininity, mother, holy family, poem, paul muldoon, the merman, water, sea, shoreline, farming, farm, waves, ownership, poem, paul muldoon, cuba, family, war, adolescence, confession, sister, cold war, sin, poem, translation, antonio machado, spanish, terence mcmullan, sun-drenched seville, hose, family, father, past, time, aging, age, poem, seamus dean…

HU Jan - Feb 77
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Kelly, Draper, Wilkes, Flynn, Forbes, Muldoon, Scammell, Poster, Peacock, Carson, Gallagher, Stephens, Wiljer, Braidwood, Morrow, Allen, Buchanan, Heaney, Paulin, Matthews, Waterman, King, Lewis, Jude the Obscure. Photographs, Paulin, Waterman, Cover by JAMM.
coverage: poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, strato, XII, 216, sex, penis, erection, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, skythinos, XII, 22, love, desire, lust, misery, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, strato, XII, 227, beauty, lust, distraction, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, markos argentarios, v, 105, desire, bliss, heaven, taste, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, markos argentarios, ix, 554, heraclea, cocks, sex, oral sex, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, theokritos, ix, 599, anakreon, statue, memorial, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, markos argentarios, vii, 403, pimp, orgy, prostitutes, sex, chastity, grave, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, x, 116, marriage, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, xi, 414, destruction, hedony, pleasure, sex, win, gout, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, ascelpiades or poseidippos, v, 202, delphine, brothel, sex, prostitution, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, v, 200, priapus, lust, sex, nakedness, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, v, 201, goddess of love, dawn, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, rufinos, v, 94, goddess, body, appearance, beauty, love, admiration, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, v, 82, quickie, foreplay, sex, poem, michael draper, passion shows, clothing, song, singing, life, white, black, red, colour, green, visions, poem, michael draper, mr earthbound’s saturday night service, someone who abides, evening, god, religion, sex, desire, abide with me, poem, john wilkes, fragment, longing, love, separation, wholeness, poem, tony flynn, town, stone, death, brother, life, funeral, childhood, infant, baptism, children, poem, tony flynn, citizens, society, city, song, singing, poem, ton…

HU May - Oct 76
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Rumens, Morrow, Harvey, Paulin, Skinner, Warner, McMullan, Stuart, Sommer, Purflitt, Carson, Foley, Johnston, Jude the Obscure, Cover by JAMM
coverage: poem, carol rumens, commuter poems, 1, train, travel, time journey, work, winter, 2, landscape, window, railway, book, reading, place, 3, ireland, poem, carol rumens, aubade for middle age, sex, love, gatwick, domestic, womb, trauma, home, habit, lust, poem, carol rumens, in a room, princess, kingdom, woman, enclosure, poem, carol rumens, the great silkie of sule skerrie, orkadian ballad, sea, shore, cliff, sand, wandering, sadness, poem, carol rumens, sylvia plath: a dramatic monologue, atlantis, patriarch, sensation, emotion, earth, tigers, marriage, words, fiction, john morrow, o’fuzz, work, van, armpit, corpse, police barracks, death, poem, francis harvey, at ards, pheasants, nature, sensation, bluebells, chestnuts, love, poem, tom paulin, provincial narratives, mother, father, arum lilies, aunt, white, family, mirror, reflection, self, poem, tom paulin, fin de siecle, landscape, lake, garden, love, desire, kiss, purity, poem, tom paulin, on the other side, moth people, dockside, port, harbour, coast, edge, boats, messages, poem, knute skinner, two sentences, father, mother, relationships, poem, val warner, officials, names, rackman, mother hubbard, pariahs, place, poem, val warner, sing cuccu!, summer, midsummer, st john’s eve, beginning, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, luis cernuda, let me keep this voice, pampa, moonlight, speech, drowning, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, federico garcia lorca, spinster at mass, incense, church, religion, black, woman, virginia, fiction, francis stuart, extract from a novel in progress, drive, journey, car, four seasons hotel, a. d. p. belbury, abortion, bar, food, eating, poem, jason sommer, in single beds, for bernadine, bed, intimacy, relationship, love, dreams, sharing, touch, night, sleep, poem, jason sommer, dear s., new york, vermont, separation, distance, letter, relationship, death, poem, jason sommer, evidences of departure, pockets, buttons, clothing, time, leaving, loss, winter, poem, jason sommer,…

HU Nov - Dec 76
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Foley, Kelly, McLaughlin, Smith, Young, Stephens, Matthews, Morrow, Paulin, O’Callaghan, O’Driscoll, Percy, St. Vincent, McAleer, Wiljer, Denman, Smyth, Platinov, Mahon, Montague, Muldoon, Ewart, Dugdale, Hobsbaum, Longley, Packenham, Simmons, Terry, Heaney, Jude the Obscure, Price, Cover by Jamm, Drawings by O’Sullivan.
coverage: drawing, d. j. o’sullivan, poem, translation, michael foley, adaptations from laforgue, preface, literature, parents, growing up, writer, poetry, philosophy, poem, translation, michael foley, laforgue, convalescence in may, sickness, mother, parents, sick room, comfort, home, relationship, woman, sex, poem, translation, michael foley, laforgue, winter coming, season, weather, rain, leisure, wind, change, sadness, autumn, year, time, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, v. 3. original by antipater of thessalonica, morning, waking, lovers, bed, cock, v. 5. original by statyllius flaccus, light, lamp, lampstead, present, gift, night, poem, tom mclaughlin, faces, family, appearance, death, loss, father, granny, poem, tom mclaughlin, young-man, work, youth, ambition, poem, tom mclaughlin, long grass, relaxation, sun, summer, solitude, stillness, laying, rest, poem, tom mclaughlin, sick-bed, eamonn andrews, sickness, sick, bed, illness, aeroplane, sensation, attention, senses, poem, w. j. smith, letter to devon, friendship, christmas, greetings, correspondence, weather, place, distance, ice, cold, winter, seasons, summer, solitude, sid, poem, augustus young, old woman of beare, actress, old, maid, aging, change, performance, body, theatre, poem, michael stephens, the guns of navarone, childhood, cinema, flicks, film, memory, poem, tom matthews, witness, god, satan, religion, dyspepsia, death, burial, faith, fiction, john morrow, sects, belfast, city, library, gaelic, music, sectarianism, europa hotel, sex, qualified war poet, poem, tom paulin, an authorised fear, money, safety, guilt, love, relationships, mourning, grief, people, strangers, empathy, emotions, poem, tom paulin, matter, work, love, home, evening, poem, juliet o’callaghan, pregnant, pregnancy, family, grandmother, house, garden, sleep, awake, poem, margaret percy, the spoon in my mouth, kitchen, domestic, twin, brother, seeking, love, dying, memory, loss, poem, ciaran o’driscoll, a vigil, d…

HU Winter 75
subject: 50th issue of the Honest Ulsterman
description: 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.
creator: The Honest Ulsterman
publisher: The Honest Ulsterman
date: March/April 1975
contributor: 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.
relation: HU 1968 - 2003
format: JPEGs from Print.
language: English (Possibly some Irish)
type: Literary Magazine
identifier: HU 50
coverage: 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 ewart, instructions to a bored dilettant, writing, poetry, imagination, writer, inspiration, poem, michael foley, me and my funky sidemen, big scuffle, music, jazz, blues, big band, poem, michael foley, the pickle song, aging, age, hollows and doldrums, sex, pickle your nuts, poem, michael foley, greek males, andy’s take-away kebab house, kentish town, london, men, masculinity, aging, poem, michael foley, the river of no return, humour, anecdote, time, aging, fear, poem, michael foley, there’s no london art…, gallery, art, legacy, knowledge, johnny hodges, poem, michael foley, i remember adlestrop, edward thomas, poetry, vagueness, bad poetry, poem, michael stephens, don juan’s last stand, virgin, virginity, sex, lust, desire, love, don juan, poem, michael stephens, tales told by an idiot, jesus, disciples, cigarette, bar, pints, lord, religion, satire, poem, tom mclaughlin, spring heat in st pauls, for john murray, teaching, teacher, children, school, poem, tom mclaughlin, the writin…

HU Mar - Jun 75
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Wilkins, Jordan, Poster, Allen, McCaughan, Morrow, Birtwhistle, O’Sullivan, Kelly, Young, Lavery, Daly, Jude the Obscure, Reid, Curtis, Price, Ewart, Donnell, Cooke, Watson. Cover by John Middleton.
coverage: 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…

HU Nov 74 - Feb 75
description: 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.
coverage: 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, peanut…

HU Aug - Oct 74
description: 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.
coverage: 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…