Board: Peter Didsbury, Douglas Dunn, Dave Lewis.
Contributors: Michael Longley, Patrick Williams, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, Ian Gregson, Peter Didsbury, Jeremy Kidd, Tony Petch, Paul Muldoon, Douglas Houston, John Osborne, Seamus Heaney, Michael Foley, Dave Lewis,
Reviews: Sean O'Brien.]]> Contributors: Michael MacLiammoir, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Michael Stott, Brian Friel, John B. Keane, Andrew Greeley, Denis Hickey, Reamonn O Muireadhaigh, Oisin Kelly, Ray Carroll, Barbara Mullaney, Jack Levine, John Horgan, M. J. Burke, John Montague, Edward Devlin, Sean O Siochain, Louis McRedmond, Martin Wallace, Joseph Tomelty, Maurice Fridberg, Bryan McMcahon, Patrick Scott, Gerald Davis, Thomas Myroup, Michael Emerson, Cyril Farrell, Gerard McCreesh, Derek Mahon, Thomas O Fiaich, James Gallagher, J. F. Hicks, Tony McConville, John Vallely, Donald Trodd.
Cover design by Hugh Largey. ]]> Contributions: Christopher Fitz-Simon, Sean Clarkin, Brian Friel, Thomas Murphy, Maire Mooney, Michael McLaverty, Cyril Farrell, Gabriel Fielding, Liam Murphy, Michael Brophy, Douglas Mattern, Joseph Hackett, John Healy, Sean Breslin, Filiocht le Anrai Mac Giolla Chomhaill, Benedict Kiely, Daniel J. Casey, Elizabeth Fagan, John Hewitt, Eamonn McCreave, Henry S. Kennedy, Andrew Boyd, James Young, J. Raymond Hart, F. Bottomley, Bill Rolston, Mary Lavin, P.J. Magee, M. J. Burke, Desmond Burke.
Reviews: Liam Murphy, Tom M. Duddy, Cyril Farrell, Edmund Haughey.
Cover design by Hugh Largey.
From the collection of Brendan Hackett, with thanks.]]> Contributors: Desmond Wilson, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, George Campbell, Patricia K. Dooley, John Raymond Hart, Brian Power, Walter Schumann, Jim Gallagher, Wolf Mankowitz, Edward Delaney, SR, Eithne Strong, Andrew Greeley, James Cole, Joseph Hackett, Martin Gleeson, Cecily Lambert, Maire Mooney, Eamon McCreave, Nicholas Emmett, John Cronin, Joseph Connolly, Fanny Feehan, Hilton Edwards, Charles McCarthy, Hugh Leonard, Jack Dowling, T. Hardiman, John F. Deane.
Reviews by: Gerard McCreesh, G.B. Newe, Sister Marie Duddy, Cyril Farrell.
Cover design by Hugh Largey.
From the collection of Brendan Hackett, with thanks.]]> Contributors: John Cooney, Dr Alex Lyons, Maire Mooney, Wolf Mankowitz, John Montague, Paul Freeney, Cyril Farrell, Wiltold Urbanowicz, Harry Clifton, Martyn Turner, Rowel Friers, Daniel J. Casey, Basil Payne, Desmond Wilson, William McLoughlin, Neill Speers, Brian McAvera, Dr. G. B. Newe, Rosemary Shevlin, Eamon McCreave, Michael O'Faolain, Patrick Cunningham, R.R. Zanker, A.E. C. W. Spencer, John Raymond Hart, Joseph Mulvenna, Benedict Kiely, Seamus Heaney, Eugene McCabe, Eithne Strong.
Reviews by: Colin McKelvie, Jim Gallagher.
Cover design by Hugh Largey.
From the collection of Brendan Hackett, with thanks.]]> Contributors: Hugh O'Brien, Seamus Heaney, Daniel Berrigan, Patrick O'Donovan, Eamon Carr, Eugene McCabe, Tom Duddy, Juliet Stevenson, Albert Gallegos, Felix F. Cardegna, Ulrick O'Connor, James MacAlpine, Tom Casey, Peter Fallon, P.J. Brophy, John D. Stewart, Mairtin O' Cadhain, Bruce Arnold, Denis Hickey, Ron Delany, George Mooney, Seamus Breathnach, Ann Redmond, Joan Hayes, John Lynch, Liam Cosgrove, Brendan Corish, G. O. Simms, Terrance O'Neill, Edward McAteer, T.J. Maher, Paul Rowan, Ruaidri Roberts, Bernard Smith, Sean Dynan, Eamon Dwyer, Patric Stevenson, Brian Ferran, Sean Breslin, Tom. M. Duddy.
Cover by Hugh Largey
From the collection of Brendan Hackett, with thanks. ]]> This essay is funded by The Foyle Foundation.]]> Contributors: Brendan Duffin, Naomi Riches, Peter Pegnall, Ann Zell, Bridget Meeds, John Siberry, Brian Lyttle, Kevin McKay, Fred Johnston, Polly Clarke, Peter Adair, David Garbutt, Howard Wright, Catalyst Arts, Eillis O'Baoill, Karen Vaughan, Siofra Campbell, Sean Burns, Peter Hollywood, Stuart Lecky, Thomas MacColl, Eamonn Stewart, Joe MacGowan, Michael O'Sullivan, Heather Wood, Scriblerus, Deirdre Molloy.
Reviews: Tony Bartley, Michael Donaghey, Sharon Kelly, Naomi Riches, Janice Simmons, P.J. Newland, James Simmons, Marin Mooney, Martin Crawford.
Front Cover: Robin Carson.
Back Cover: Gerard Devlin.]]> Contributors: Ciaran O'Driscoll, E.C. Denniston, Fred Johnston, Friedrich Dannebauer, Deirdre Nic Ionnraic, Noel Fitzgerald, Eva Bourke, Jay Murphy, James Taylor, Conleth Ellis, Inger Gorse, Wendy Saloman, Edmund \Lenihan, John F. Deane, Jurgen Theobaldy, Erich Fried, Peter Maiwald, Louise Stoney, Liam Murphy. Translations by Eoin Bourke, Terry Cuthbert, Gabriel Rosenstock.
Cover: Julian Watson.
Thanks to Mark Roper.]]> Contributors: Mary Frost, Bob Mairs, Dorothy Lee Hansen, Rita Ann Higgins, M. G. Allen, Brian Twomey, Nuali Ni Dhomhnaill, Gabrial Rosenstock, Fred Johnston, Gerry Loose, Chris Teal, Luke Geoghegan, Jessie Lendennie, Gerry Reidy.
Advertising: Jackie O'Dywer,
Cover: Anne Costello.
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Cover by Anne Costello.]]> Contributors: Michael Egan, Matthew Sweeney, Rita Ann Higgins, Jim O'Gara, Ciaran O'Driscoll, Cormac O'Neill, Martin Conneely, Seamus O'Conghaile, Thomas McCarthy, James Taylor, Robert Flanagan, Fred Johnston.
Advertising: Jackie O'Dwyer.
Cover: Brian Bourke,
Cover Layout: Ann Costello.
Thanks to Mark Roper.]]> 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.
]]> ]]> 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 writing 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,]]> Editorial Board: A Bligh, James Delehanty T.P. Lying, Frank McEvoy.
Contributors: James. Delehanty, Tarry Holden, Thomas Kinsella, James. J. McAuley, John Montague, S.J. White, James J. McAuley, John B. Keane, Joseph Reynolds, James J. McAuley.
Reviews by James Delehanty, T.H., W.A.R.
Cover by Christopher Fay. ]]> Contributors: Mathew Moulton, F.R. Higgins, George Scott-Moncrieff, Colm Brogan, Hugh MacDiarmid, Frank O'Connor, Willa Muir, Morley Jamieson, Edwin Muir, Robert Garioch, Michael Burke, Norman Wilson.
Book Reviews by: J.B. Caird, Robert Collis, J.L. Campbell, Robert Garioch.
Paintings by W.G. Gillies.]]>