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Reviews: Lorraine Fox, Gerard Brennan, Patricia Byrne, Des Kenny, Desima Connolly, Sarah Lapsley, Jack Mark, Connor McGill, Aaron Brown, Adam McLaughlin, Samantha Ranchman, Gemma Simpson, Henrick Paul McGill, Daniel Gilfillan, Natalie Smith, Leah Gilfillan, Rebecca Ranchman, David Maybury, May Blair, Cathal Coyle, Tammy Moore, Claire Savage, Sean McMahon, Catherine McGrotty, Ciaran Flanagan, Charlotte Roberts.]]> Production and Design: James Cunningham.
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Reviews: Catherine McGrotty, Ben Macnair, Sarah Lapsley, David Shiels, Aibhe Darcy, Breda Doherty, Charlotte Elliott, ]]> Production and Design: James Cunningham.
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From the collection of Brendan Hackett, with thanks. ]]> Poem. Brendan Kennelly: The Stones: Children, Stones, Cruelty, Fear, Elder Abuse.
Poem. Brendan Kennelly: A Man in a Yellow Oilskin. Connemara, Loch Corrib, Nature, Rowing.
Prose: John D. Stewart. Let us be Human. Religion. Sectarianism. Humanism.
Poem: John Hewitt: From the Tibetan. Lamas, Ulster, Northern Ireland, Bureaucracy, Politics, Government.
Poem. Derek Mahon. A Dying Art, Plug Tobacco.
Poem Derek Mahon. Ecclesiastes. Religion. Protestant. Ulster. Northern Ireland. Antrim.
Prose: John Hearsum. The Running of Things. Flat buying renting, repairs.
Poem. W. Price Turner. Full Supporting Coverage. Movies. Death. Satire. Religion.
Poem. Michael Stephens. The Fear. Sex. Masochism. Ice. Women.
Poem. Michael Stephens. Mistake. Blood. Cut. Nicked. Shaving.
Poem. Michael Stephens. Necessity. Love. Need. Sex. Defecation.
Poem. Michael Stephens. Jokes. Relationships. Relationship Failure.
Poem: The Case of the Cardboard Kodak Girl. Advertising. Sex. Lust. Interview.
Interview. Michael Stephens meets Roger McGough.
Poem: James Simmons. After Donald Davie. Beatniks, Belfast, Drinking Den, Hard Men, Experience, Regret. Future.
Feature. Michael Stephens. Drugs v Drink.
Peter Lewis. A Tale of a Turd. Satire. Sermon. Dean Swift.
Article on Mary O'Malley and Lyric Theatre Belfast.
Feature: The Use of History.
W. Price Turner. Procrastination.
Review. Reflections on the Poetry of Louis McNeice. Poem. Gavin Ewart. Epitaph. Women. Cooking. Sex.
James Simmons. New Song. To be sung to Foggy Dew. Kensington Gardens Square. Love. Sex. Boredom. Illegitimacy. Loneliness. Thoughts for the Month. Quotes By Yeats, Chaucer, John Livingston, Lowes, Spinoza, Bob Dylan.
Poem. Gavin ]]> Poem, John Hewitt, The Search, countries, travel, stranger, emigration, home, old, place, landscapes, return,
Extract, John Hewitt, autobiography, memoir, extract, A North Light, Alec of the Chimney Corner,, dr alexander irvine, my lady of the chimney corner, novels, mother, writer, author, sermon, orator, oration, rhetoric, Belfast, church, Y.M.C.A, the laying on of hands, John Langtry Lynas, portrait, artist,
Poem, Michael Stephens, the importance of free thought, child, adult, growth, learning, sex, politics, social responsibility, irony, society, individual,
Poem, Michael Stephens, schooldays, child, childhood, school, play, bulldozer, death, trauma, accident, machinery,
Poem, Michael Stephens, i think it was michael stephens who said, intimate, intimacy, face, faces, friendship, community, poet, love, nervous, fear, orator, neurosis
Poem, Michael Stephens, my noddy neurosis, growth, growing up, Bigears, child, children’s television, adolescent, teen, adult,
Poem, brendan kennelly, birthdays and farewells, occasion, birthday, goodbye, event, parody, time, social ritual, encounter, departure, death, performance,
Poem, Brendan Kennelly, a couple, she, he, morning, evening, electric blanket, domestic, marriage, kiss, snipe, jameson, pub, love, romance, relationships, men, women, gender
Poem, Garry McFeeter, poem for the womanhood of today, love, women, beauty, make-up, cosmetics, hair, appearance, femininity, desire, wooden leg, ailment, disability, amputee, objectification
extract, rev. albert h. acelroy, installation address, james simmons, religion, presbyterian, christianity, humanist, communist, clergyman, catholicism, graham green, commitment, all souls church, belfast, non-subscribing church of ireland, humanity, existence, irish presbyterianism, unitarians, history, theology, liberal, liberalism, radical, god, conformity, Paisley, paisleyism, catholic, protestant, criticism, young people, youth, sex, spirit, spirituality, morality, man, human, responsibility, duty, orator, oration, speech, denomination,
Poem, david burleigh, bird, nature, bird watching, movement, sea, rook, rooks, seagulls, cliff, landscape, hunt, fly
Poem, Michael Friel, gransha, hospital, health, sick, sickness, well, wellness, people, community, hurt, cigarette, night, day, sleep, painter, artist, busman, writer, farmer, soldier, jobs, damage, mental health, emotion, expression, depression, sensation, therapy,
psyche, psychology, loss, lunacy, clean, self, pill, medicine, Derry, Londonderry, clinic, injury, foyle, landscape, psychosis, madness, internment, travel, road,
Fiction, derek montgomery, a letter from america, jazz, airport, travel, ivy williams, poetry, music, drink, drinking, black, negro, insult, racism, liquor, records, party, US, America, men, women, race,
Poem, Fleann O’Connor, salvage, in memory of james clarence mangan, poetry, poet, history, memory, value, wreckage, rescue, save, history, death, survival, life, struggle
Review, che guevara, reminiscences of the cuban revolutionary war, james simmons, war battle, history,
poem, raymond ellis, elegy on the death of martin luther king, politics, race, peace, war, religion, Green Hill, promised land, general westmoreland,
poem, new song, james simmons, johnny my gigolo, sharp collection, sex, sun, holiday, escort, love, romance, lover, age,
]]> prophecy, fourth dimensional consciousness, the body of light, the interplanetary brotherhood and the second coming, transcendental humanist, humanism, religion, philosophy, zodiac, aquarian, aquarius, dimension, ages, unity, ecumenism, spirit, christianity, christ, aliens, future, speculation, heaven, earth, humanity, prophet, virgins, awakening, awake, money, greed, sin, righteousness, righteous, morality, truth,
poem, tony harrison, revival song, romance, appearance, beauty, masculinity, men, cosmetics, hair
poem, tony harrison, the chopin express, sex, sensation, body, geography, land, banter, U.S., America, nation, women, love, travel, train, railway, night, landscape, naked, intercourse, injury, wound, fear, fright, intimacy, comfort, sperm, globe, Russia, Russian,
Fiction, Anthony c. west, chapters from a new novel, as towns with fire, extract, jobs, jobs, depression, employment, unemployment, vegetables, advertising, advert, grocery, war, world war two, hitler, hare, second extract, wartime, evacuation, london, england, soldier, train, railway, travel, sex, lust, relationship, marriage, conchie, conscientious objector, world war one, great war, politics, pacifist, pacifism, christianity, family,
poem, jim burns, chicago breakdown, relationship, love, break-up, family, separation, money, reading, bar,
poem, jim burns, taste, class, middle class, pretension, food, chips, curry, wimpey bar,
poem, jim burns, old jazz photographs, music, ekphrasis, jazz, horns, musical instrument, tea for two, exactly like you, bix beiderbecke, america
poem, jim burns, it, loss, lost, time
poem, jim burns, october 1967, revolution, worker’s caps, russia, makhno, war, army, armies,
poem, jim burns, you need religion boy, god, faith, belief, pollution, river, water, nature, spirit
poem, michael foley, grianan, donegal, nature, ireland, history, ancient, monument, ritual, archeology, viking, pagan, memory, heritage, land
poem, michael foley, academics, academia, academy, institution, teaching, teacher, age, aging, youth,
poem, michael foley, homecoming, home, return, family, leaving, separation,
fiction, norman watson, journey, galway, travel, road, hitch-hiker, hitch-hiking, hitch hike, ireland, northern ireland, blackberries, blackberry
poem, graham massey, thought, mind, nature, rock, water, sea, sand, metaphor, poetry, writing, brain, brain cells, mind, self reflection,
poem, the bricklieve mountains, hugh maxton, nature, sligo, landscape, land, west coast, hills, ancient history, heritage, ben bulben, knocknarea, weather, wind, mind, forgetting, bones, death, speckled mountains, upland, memory, remembering, corbel, megalith. megalithic, walking, walk
poem, john cassidy, we couldn’t share less, fear, fright, comfort, protection, dandy, desperate dan once, past, family, childhood
poem, james o’kane, philimy, wife, husband, death, mourning, grief, statue, portrait, idol, image, marriage, dead, resemblance, relationships, iconoclasm, fire, destruction, wedding, domestic, domesticity
review, michael foley, the novels of john mcgahern,
poem, new song, james simmons, the sun, the flower of magherally, park, sunlight, light, weather, loss, time, nature,
]]> poem, seamus heaney, the thatcher, work, thatching, countryside, rural, craft, straw, ladder, knife, knives, midas touch, gold, making, home, house, building, roof,
poem, michael longley, journey out of essex, john clare’s escape from the madhouse, hospital, asylum, sickness, sick, health, well, ill, nature, bed, bird, journey, travel, dissolution, memory, helpston, excape, travel, poet, rural,
poem, james simmons, remembrance day, poetry, writing, remembering, nation, history, author, authorship, soldiers, army, war, soldier, memory, story, words, cenotaph,
fiction, john hearsum, teeth, france, bistro, bar, drinking, french, chat, dialogue, hospital, illness, money, debt, war, soldier, gold, dental, age, old, aging, wine, service, hospitality, lust, drunk, drink, lonely, solitude,
poem, ernest bates, one ardent theme, w. b. yeats, sligo, horse, horses, ireland, kerry, Montague, eavan boland, hayden murphy, poet, writer, poetry, tipperary, cahir castle, history, people, nation, church, freedom, destruction, tradition, heritage, food, cabbage, charles stewart parnell, nationhood, arbour hill detention barracks, vinegar hill, wexford, army, war, solier, injury, destruction, imprisonment, prison, thomas malory, john hally, bosworth field, michael hogan,
poem, gavin ewart, king of cats, cat, tabby, pet, animal, lost, loss, urban, domestic, return, journey,
poem, gavin ewart, poem in a child’s spelling, words, child, children, men, women, accent, hemel hempstead, london, house, sex,
extract, autobiography, memoir, john hewitt, a north light, from chairmen and committee men, good lord deliver us, british association, belfast, conference, percy tougher, chairman, museum, anecdote, politics, art, gallery, conspiracy, Bill Seaby, interview, belfast museum and art gallery, unionism, mary o’malley, joe tomelty, howard sergeant, isolation, valentin iremonger, work, career, jobs,
poem, owen davis, a poem, weather, snow, writing, memory, love, affection, remember, senses, sensation, nature, winter, frost, death, forget, trace, traces, loss, sorrow, tomorrow, hope, relationship, relationships, tree,
poem, owen david, after the market, lonely, loneliness, rain, weather, street, urban, fruit, flowers, chemist, people,
poem, terry brindley, appletree conclusions, apple tree, god, genesis, bible, tree of knowledge, fruit, flowers, rose, blossom, nature, growth, burgeoning, burgeon, green, movement, life, harvest, eating , food, eat,
poem, peter gruffydd, slate quay: felinheli, wales, welsh, caernarfonshire, menai straits, portdinorwic, port dinorwic, coast, sea, nature, stone, shore, llanfairisgaer, water, weather, tree, village, history, walk, walking, dog, time, past, geography,
poem, tom matthews, chaine of chaine park, larne, sentry, still, stillness, history, park, nature, sea, north channel, solitude,
poem, richard greenfield, at grandfather’s, grandfather, grandparent, family, old, age, house, home, visiting, sunday, child, childhood, memory, past,
poem, richard greenfield, lines at an old man’s death, child, childhood, old, age, farm, corn, bread, passover, food, death, nourishment, life,
poem, kathleen gilbert, somewhere, place, travel, road, car, nowhere, landscape, field, motorway, village, rural, cattle, cow, animals, countryside, car, cars, death, accident, modernity, infrastructure,
essay, sam hanna bell, love and three ulster writers, subject matter, romance, courtship, marriage, society, writing, author, authorship, nation, nationalism, ireland, literature, folk song, thomas kinsella, land, marriage, george shiels, shan bullock, st. john ervine, plays, dramatist, working-class, relationships,
poem, michael friel, gola, donegal, island, sea, weather, land, death, history, sea, wind, past heritage, fate, fishermen, geography,
poem, michael friel, for an untreated neurotic, body, sensation, nerves, nervousness, feeling, mental health, neurosis, neuroses, sickness,
review, james simmons, a penny in the clouds, austin clarke,
poem, new song, james simmons, frankie and johnny got married, marriage, family, husband, wife, relationships, relationship, drinking, drink, cheating, infidelity, someone here is doing someone wrong, car, accident, death, blame, fault, morality,
]]> poem, michael stephens, winner talks philosophy, life, living, human, survival, meaning, success, thought,
poem, michael stephens, dialogue, typography, family, grandfather, grandparents, death, child, childhood, coffin, funeral, burial, cemetery,
poem, geoffrey squires, a miracle in the midlands, father, mother, pregnancy, birth, men, ireland, church, catholicism, catholic,
poem, geoffrey squires, torture, men, masculinity, pain, hurt,
fiction, john morrow, final solution,soldier, sergeant commissionnaire, work, army, ulster, royal constabulary, troubles, conflict, pill, birth control, sex, sinn fein, population, society, enforcement, control, politics, contraceptive, medicine, medication, eugenics, satire, free will, power, religion, catholic church, women, childbirth, unionism,
poem, roger mcgough, S. W. A. L. K., child, letter, prodigy, letters, correspondence, poets, singers, adolescence, teen, celebrity, pornography, pubescent, sex, sealed with a loving kiss,
poem, roger mcgough, hot poem, nature, cat, sky, cloud, fly, swallows, words, language, repetition, weather, day,
poem, andrew waterman, only connect, social, conventions, convention, connections,
poem, andrew waterman, betrayal, relationship, conflict, love, affection, sex, bodies, body, mind,
fiction, norman watson, silence, cinema, film, sound, human, quiet, sniff,
poem, d. j. o’sullivan, december night, star, stars, sky, planet, jupiter, Gemini, fox, nature, universe, movement, winter, spring, stream, animal, life,
poem, d. j. o’sullivan, spawning time, road, nature, bogland, frog, Belsen, Gentile, Gentiles, Jew, Jewish, car, vehicle, traffic, Ausschwitz, death, reproduction, life, darkness, time, past, spawn, destruction, animal,
poem, d. j. o’sullivan, metamorphosis, turf, destruction, debris, change, transformation, nature, bog, insect, insects, chrysalis, entomology, cocoon, exclusion, encamp, prison, free, freedom, itinerant, regeneration, life,
poem, michael brophy, lonely through scenes of my childhood, change, past, child, lawn, time, garden, home, derelict, growth, abandoned, insects, nature, control, burgeoning, regeneration, life,
essay, ralph bossence, as i see it, ballymacarrett, minister of home affairs, politics, belfast, down, glentoran, troubles, william craig, bill craig, free silver agitation, linfield, march, demonstration, clubs, club, football, revolt, protest, martin luther bryan, william jennings bryan, america, nebraska, politician, protestant, catholic, short strand, golden vision, satire,
poem, john cassidy, birds eye blues, typography, form, flight, sky, vision, fly, plane, cloud, perspective, movement, transition, love, restoration, home, touch, man, woman,
poem, john cassidy, trial and error, court, satire, contentment, unrest, speech, speaking, indifference, apathy, atrophy, hell, death, body, execution, accusation, surreal,
poem, john cassidy, news from the front, domestic, kitchen, violence, anger, row, home, fight, war, peace, relationship, food,
poem, amy castellano, holy day, prayer, religion, pray, nature, reluctant, resistance, faith, interior, church, conflict,
poem, g. magee, ma mere, mother, family, comfort, care, she, women, love, protection, devotion, parent, relationship,
fiction, jim burns, fooling around, sex, relationship, morning, bed, german, deception, men, women,
poem, r. c. king, an old man at warrenpoint remembers, day dreaming, writing, write, memory, slemish, broughshane, downshire, ghosts, ghost, history, memoir, past, dozing in the sun, age, elderly, time, nature, landscape, body, mind, imagination, death, love, loneliness, loss, life, wife, remember,
poem, kathleen casey, hortus holitorus, food, vegetables, fruit, spinach, pomegranate, want, growth, desire, hyacinth girl, nature, park, garden, herb, herbs,
letter, d. j. mcCracken, drunk, arrest, crime, accusation, sligo,
poem, james simmons, censorship, bookshop, book seller, print, words, language, magazine, honest ulsterman, profanity, profane, genitals, assault, rebellion, poetry, poet,
review, a great ulster novel, sam hannah bell, december bride,
review, the iliad of homer, translated, I. A. RIchards,
poem, new song, james simmons, the next market day, comber, singer, women, girl, yarn, flirt, loss, meeting,]]> poem, derek mahon, 1 corinthians 13, speech, words, language, love, knowledge, mind, body, wisdom,
poem, kate middleton, three mourne songs, pebbles, beach, stones, nature, unique, travelling, holiday, airport, journey, climbing, mountain, walk, hill, view, vision, space, silence, nature, commercial, advertising, escape, height, God
poem, kate middleton, back of bingnion, family, past, mother, grandmother, parent, grandparent, home, women, work, housework, time, kitchen, food, heat wave, song, wales,
kate middleton, poem, his & hers, relationship, men, women, house, home, car, family, countryside, difference, marriage,
prologue, reading at the rockefeller university, john mcgahern, rhythm, vision, art, ekphrasis, images, visual, religion, form, struggle, life,
poem, gavin ewart, the sea-pig, water, ocean, bathyscaphe, boat, deep, hunting, hunt, search, alien, scotoplanes, deep sea, animal, invertebrate, abysse, animal,
poem, gavin ewart, the young seduction poem, writing, courting, love, romance, car, motor,
essay, seamus heaney, writer at work, writing, words, language, literature, discovery, making, composition, poet, authorship, self, identity, poems, poetry,
poem, seamus heaney, the forge, hearth, metal, labour, blacksmith, tool, dark, craft, work, tradition, interior,
poem, conor ward, yard stick, women, love, romance, perfection, relationship, relationships, false, bodies, measuring,
poem, wes magee, ideas, thinking, thought, mind, imagination, writing, car, cars, motor, traffic, urban, town,
poem, w. j. holland, a short piece of fiction, work, factory, life, loss, past, labour, searching, youth, age,
poem, terry brindley, from the market, apples, fruit, food, body, sensation, selling, buying, urban,
poem, terry brindley, gross evidence of paranoid thinking: for the bird, against the frog, black, servitude, service, work, labour, sensation, inequality, blood, trauma, society,
poem, michael friel, granite sky defection, nature, weather, city, urban, industry, industrial, cloud, stone, dark, rain, apathy, lethargy, street, society, breath, breathing, life, baptism, regeneration,
fiction, john morrow, the impresario, work, labour, money, boat, boats, shipbuilding,
letter, john hewitt, to the editor, austin clark,
letter, hamish henderson, celts, pre-celtic, ireland, ancient history,
review, tony bareham, john hewitt, collected poems 1932-67,
review, edna longley, derek mahon, night crossing,
review, walter allen, j. r. ackerly, my father and myself,
review, michael pursglove, andrei voznezensky, antiworlds and the fifth ace, translated, w. h. auden,
review, roger watkin, alan sillitoe, guzman go home,
review, james simmons, gavin ewart, the deceptive grin of the gravel porters,
poem, a christmas ballad, parasites, merry, sing, singing, cheer, insects, flies, drink, vice,]]> poem, john montague, ulster’s pride, o’neill: a name more in price than to be called Caesar, sir john carew, con bacach o’neill, 1542, history, ireland, earl, Greenwich, sean an diomas, tudor, 1562, family history, tudor, hugh o’neill, 1599, john harrington, ariosto, 1604, after kinsale, the pale, battle, rebel, monarchy, name, irish,
poem, andrew waterman, marsden church, yorkshire, england, marriage, wedding, village, secular, belief, relationship, love, ceremony, tradition, prayer,
poem, andrew waterman, uniforms, jobs, labour, identity, self, society, institution, uniform, human, people, humanity, profession
essay, interview, jack Macgowran, talks to michael foley, actor, silent song, acting, performance, mime, samuel beckett, all that fall, eh joe, embers, collaboration, play, drama, beginning to end, interpretation, the unnameable, roman polanski, wonderwall, job, profession,
poem, terry brindley, america during the american invasion of vietnam - 1968, profession, usa, war, the golden bowl, army, patriot, patriotism, hippy, culture, counter-culture, politics, society, people, individuals, country, soldier, hypocrisy,
poem, terry brindley, the conscript, conscription, war, army, patriot, patriotism, pride, fear, soldier, destruction, suicide, trauma, post traumatic stress, mental health, hypocrisy, death,
letter from england, ulster, terence o’neill,
review, roger watkin, anthony c. west, as towns with fire,
review, edna longley, geoffrey hill, king log,
review, james simmons, bohumil hrabel, a close watch on the trains, czech,
review, james simmons, richard eberhart, shifts of being,
poem, new song, john paul nash, rose mary missing, lost, loss, fear,]]> poem, james michie, martial, ranslations, translations, women, girl, girls, death, Rome, marriage, sex, relationships, history,
poem, w. price turner, driven at night, wife, relationships, lust, moon, jealousy, want, tenth commandment, covet, covetousness, envy, marriage,
poem, w. price turner, metamorphosis, truth, knowledge, toad, prince, deception, change, transformation,
fiction, denis ireland, fragment from a work in progress, greece through the bottom of a glass darkly, kavala, british consulate, military, greek islands, espionage, spy, german, bulgarian, thrace,
poem, jim burns, the old man’s letter to his wife, alone, lonely, loneliness, home, house, domestic, loss, death, memory, love, marriage, wife, money,
poem, jim burns, the sky is crying, rain, weather, cloud, nature, autumn, dock, vehicles, munster, love, relationship, relationships, loss, travel, water, arnsberg, memory, memories, romance,
poem, frank ormsby, growing up, childhood, bog, family, child, home, house, domestic, rain, weather, nostalgia, age, aging, past, adventure, romance,
essay, john d. stewart, take me to your leader, human rights association, university, education, knowledge, accessibility, information, society, literacy, learning, wisdom, ulster, school, class, social mobility, humanity, ignorance, prejudice, unionist party, phelim o’neill, john mcquade, politics,
poem, bill welch, salamander, salamanders, nature, animals, dark, light, darkness, snow, temperature, frozen, cold, winter,
poem, bill welch, i hunt dragons, kill, myth, beast, animal, humour,
poem, s. burnside, buriel, cold, minister, church, death, funeral, burial, love, emptiness, dead, time,
poem, peter e. drenman, two poems, bird, morning, night, work, birdsong, silence,
poem, peter e. drenman, a little hymn, lord, religion, king, power, royalty, royal, leadership, guidance, mistake, ignorance, disappointment, governance,
poem, w. j. holland, hot poem, poetry, womb, stage, skulls, blood, surreal,
letter, g. h. clancy,
review, james simmons, i am mary dunne, brian moore,
review, james simmons, my father’s son, frank o’connor, autobiography,
review, james simmons, after experience, w. d. snodgrass,
review, michael stephans, angel beak poems, bill welsh,
review, michael stephans, iliad of broken sentences, rosemary tonks,
review, michael stephans, the night of stone, george macbeth,
review, tony barham, in the wilderness and other poems, james simmons,
review, padraic fiacc, three holy blue flower people, blue house, james liddy,
poem, song, james simmons, sandy, riding down to bangor, age, aging, travel, time, past, love,
poem, poster, have you been to london, norman nicholson, ]]> Fiction, terry brindley, mr nicholas, railway, trains, steam train, childhood, friendship, friends, death, dead, wake, mourning, corpse, play, youth, imagination, bird, eggs, education, dream, dreaming, crocodile, fear, tooth, teeth, dentist, pain, name, identity, afraid,
poets of west ulster, derry,
poem, john cassidy, courting disaster, love, romance, memory, beach, summer, winter, failure,
poem, john cassidy, road death, car, motor, traffic, dawn, travel, crow, bird, injury, death, accident,
poem, john cassidy, trial and terror, court, satire, contentment, unrest, speech, speaking, indifference, apathy, atrophy, hell, death, body, execution, accusation, surreal,
poem, john cassidy, a pome for all seasons, autumn, summer, spring, winter, year, cycle, nature, form, circle, repetition, recurrence, regeneration, movement, energy, growth, life, death,
poem, michael foley, bogey men, childhood, child, children, fear, 1950s, danger, time, past, adolescence, change, growing up, perspective, age,
poem, james simmons, still another poet, poetry, verse, authority, resistance, class, money, poor, english, university, education, lowell, cummings, villon, access,
poem, geoffrey squires, donegal, my friend, friendship, mathematics, logic, words, friendship, light, comprehension, understanding, knowledge,
poem, geoffrey squires, aisling, love, romance, emotion, boredom, disappointment, wither, society, privacy,
poem, d. O’sullivan, centipede, nature, animal, insect, night, dark, fertile, reproduction, egg, movement, sex, regeneration, eggs,
poem, d o’sullivan, water, waves, sea, shore, boat, pier, gannet, birds, age, retirement, pension, old, navy, youth, memory, ship, ships, titanic, ark royal, isolda, nostalgia, aging, past, opportunity, travel,
poem, d o’sullivan, first flight, sky, fly, fear, desire, thrill, sensation, transition, bird, birds, youth, growing up, gull, gulls,
poem, d o’sullivan, march hare, woodland, nature, animals, movement, spring, love, marriage,
poem, frances mulhern, enniskillen, invasion, books, book, library, reading, study, poetry,
poem, frances mulhern, fishermen, for pa mccannon, fishing, work, labour, sea, profession, boat, boats, weather, salt, fish, brother, family, pollock, mackerel, hunt, waves, shore, swimming, swim, death,
fiction, p. adams, the contessa’s defence of londundry, courtesy, hierarchy, aristocracy, servitude, service, elite, work, class, etiquette, punishment, arrest, justice, injustice, royalty, royal, envoy, countess, master, monarchy, language, words, speech, crime, authority, humour, satire, teague, catholic, rebellion, revolution, limavady, money,
poem, g. magee, the actress and the nun, women, profession, shame, privacy, empathy, appearance, performance, make-up, acting actor, celebrity, identity, conflict, choice, honesty, pretence, pretending, life, other, difference,
poem, g. magee, late again, women, woman, late, bus stop, bus, routine, performance, encounter, people, play, joke, chat, stranger,
poem, jonathan brown, waking, child, childhood, television, imagination, play, entertainment, cowboys and indians, injury, wound, sensation, family, uncle, game, games, family,
poem, michael phillips, campbell’s’ island, cove, shore, strand, beach, battle, memory, water, solitude, privacy, war, beast,
review, roger watkin, poor lazarus, maurice leitch,
review, james simmons, the northern muse, john montague, seamus heaney,
review, seamus dunne, nigeria, walter schwartz,
poem, new ballad, freddy anderson, a rocket divine, noah’s arc, cape kennedy, humanity, apocalypse, human, astronaut, space, parliament, democracy, politics, planet, god, morality, earth, sky, heaven, nature, peace, mankind, ]]>