Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editors: Ruth Carr, Frank Sewell. Contributors: Allen, Baillie, Bennett, Egan, Faulkner, French, Higgins, Holmes, Mac Lochlainn, McAteer, McMahon, Sheperton, Werner, Jude the Obscure, Sewell, Greacen, Fitzgerald, Mephisto. Book Reviews by: Fitzgerald, Coyle, Early, McMahon, Coyle, Monahan, Oxley, Murphy. Cover by: P Blairy.
Editorial by Tom Clyde. Return to Galway. Gary Allen. Poem. Memory Memories, regret, loss, sex, love. Keats Coughs. Tony Ballie. Illness. sickness, Italy, love, death. Snail. Poem. Charles Bennett, snail as metaphor for writing, creativity. The Runaway. Finbar Dennis, awake, waking wakefulness hunted pursued, nature. The East Wind. Poem Finbar Dennis. Poem. Progress, ruin, regret, loss, memory, memories. The Secret Flow. Ann Egan. Poem. builders cement craftsmanship creativity building technique. Cornucopia. Poem. Ashley Faulkner. Nature, fear, allergies, death, hypochondria hypochondriac safety. Ash. Tom French. Poetry. In memory memorial of Chris O'Neill. Death, ceremony, funeral, scattering ashes, sea rebirth. Hillsborough Lake, December 1998. Poem. Graham Higgin, Nature, lake, swimming, water, Belfast. Northern Ireland. Redstart, Poem, Clyde Holmes. Birds, nature, time, absence. Aistriuchain. Poem Gearoid Mac Lochlainn Translated by Frank Sewell. Irish Gaelic culture clash ignorance, rebel English uncomfortable. Cireib (An lasaoradh Pvt. Lee Clegg) Riot (On the Day Pvt. Lee Clegg was Released) Riots, Troubles, Northern Ireland. Gearoid Mac Lochlainn translated by Frank Sewell. Unreturned. Poem. Michael McAteer. Nature, sublime, connection, smallness. disappearing. spiritual spirituality. Pacific Highway. Poem. Brendan McMahon. road trip, countryside, nature, flowers, Australia. Communion. Janet Shepperson. Poem. Catholic Catholicism, church first communion, ceremony, clergy priests nature. The Origins Of Poetry. Peter Werner. Poem. Norse, Gods Odin, Loki, runes, Bragi, reality. praise. Business Section. Jude the Obscure on Gabriel Faure. On Translation Frank Sewell. Quotes about Translation. Prose Robert Greacen on Joyce Cary The Protestant Experience. Prose. Earth Residence Cultural Memory in the poetry of Derek Mahon and Seamus Heaney. Neil Fitzgerald. Mephisto Prose. The Idiot of the Family. Reflections of the Sicilian Mafia. Naples of the North. Poem. Portstewart. Neil Fitzgerald reviews Derek Mahon, Collected Poems, The Yellow Book. Derek Mahon Collected Poems reviewed by Derek Coyle. Paul Durcan Greetings to our friends in Brazil reviewed by Patrick Early. Gillian McInosh The Force of Culture Unionist identities In Twentieth Centurey Ireland. 20th. reviewed by Deirdre McMahon. John Montague, Smashing the Piano reviewed by Derek Coyle, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill The Water Horse reviewed by Derek Coyle. Frank McGuinness, The Sea With No Ships, Robert Greacen, Protestant Without A Horse. Poems by John Whitworth illustrated by Gerald Mangan from the sonnet history of modern poetry. John Stevenson, Cowboys in Winter, A Bitter Harvest, Images inspired by the 1798 Rising in Uster reviewed by Noel Monahan. Vona Groarke, Other People's Houses, Fault-Line Gordon Mason, Thomas Kinsella, The Familiar and Godhead. Lucy Brennan, Migrants all reviewed by William Oxley. The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, lorna Sage reviewed by Paul Murphy.
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editors: Ruth Carr, Frank Sewell. Contributors: Mahon, Longley, Sewell, Wheatley, Carr, Brearton & Simpson, Kirkham, Heaney, Dawe, Hardie, Quinn, Martin, McGuckian, McIntosh, Johnstone, Rice, Morgan, Jude the Obscure, Chris Agee. Book Reviews by: Bleakney, Kiely, Caldwell, Kell, Brearton, Murphy, Keenan. Cover and free print by Jeffrey Morgan.
Editors: Ruth Carr, Tom Clyde. Contributors: O’Searcaigh, Simmons, Fitzpatrick-Simmons, McCarthy, Fiaac, Deppe, Fox, McBreen, O’Toole, Grattan, Kelly, Woods, Newmann K, Johnstone, Cooke, Hammill, Longley, Maxton, Agee, McGuckian M, Cronin, Hughes, Hobsbaum, Montague, McGuckian J, Newmann J, Taylor, Honey, Zell, Tannahill, Heaney, Welsh, McLoughlin, Woods, Muinzer, Lynch, Johnston, Jude the Obscure, Abraham, Allen, Armstrong, Bennett, McMahon, Conaghan, Conneely, Crowe, Dawe, Compton, Fluharty, French, Galbraith, Grundle, Singh Kumar, Mairs, Martin, Mayer, McBreen, Murphy, Smith, Kirkham, Ni Chonchuir, Northcliff, Crowe Serrano, Tobin, Vennard, Wiggans, Feenan, Wycherly. Book Reviews by: Hodges.
Special Feature In Memory of James Simmons. Introduction by Ruth Carr and Tom Clyde. Drawing by Cathal O'Searcaigh. Poem: On the Beach: James Simmons 1999.Tory Island, Clonbarra, Wimbledon, domestic wild comparison, nature, flowers, weeds roses happiness, sadness. Half Fleshless Half Feathered. Poem. Dead Cormorant, birds, death, decay, heraldry. Salt Caress. Janice Fitzpatrick-Simmons. Whale, whales, Imaginary friends, father, Family, loss, grief, Kilult Churchyard, Atlantic, mortality, sickness. The Glenveagh Pass. Poem. Bog, New England, nature, landscape, Autumn, Fall, death sorrow, build, building. continue, legacy, God, questions. A Letter From Tom McCarthy: Memories of James Simmons. Padraic Fiacc, Dirge, A poem for Jimmy and Janice. Bees, sorrow, death, wine, signs. Thread, Ravelling, Poem, For Ben Simmons, Theodore Deppe, Rain, Mizen Head, Cork, paint, painting, daughter, family, art, light, shade, Jimmy Simmons, Atlantic, , jazz, blues, scandal, father, son, jacket, funeral, ravel, fuchsia, Chair, dog, Cape Clear, Cait. Service, prayer. Singapore. Poem. For James Simmons and Lily Woulfe. Patrick's Well, mountains, natures, almond blossom, blossoms, mourning, Kavanagh quote, quoted, whiskey whisky of the imagination, Jimmy, sage, sages, drink drinking dance dancing, Yeats, Lapis Lazuli, Adrian Fox, Poem, in memoriam Jimmy Simmons, Bloody Forland, celebration, in memory of, poetry, music, song. Unapproved Roads, driving, sadness, Craigavan, Letterkenny, UVF, Ulster Volunteer Force, Night Song from a Previous Life, hospital, tubes, freedom, illness, sickness. Joan McBreen. At Rosses Point. Poem. landscape sorrow, continue, continuance, continuing, nature, landscape. Solstice. For Ben and Anna Simmons, flowers, roses, funeral, grave, service, sadness, rhododendrons, Dunfanaghy, Falcarragh whins. Bridget O'Toole, Prose, Memories of James Simmons. Paul Grattan, The Standards of a Reasonable Man. Poem. McGinleys, Finglas 46A clueless, unaware, mourners, Marigolds, fantasia, dream, dreaming, reality. Boy on the Beach. John Kelly, Poem America, Xanadu, Heaven's Gate, Manhattan. Nature, sea, waves, water. One Note from the Cello Suites, Macdara Woods, poem, Brancusi head, Quinta del Sordo, New Orleans, Corso Vanucci, Marie Lavau, voodoo queen. BIrd in the Hand. Kate Newmann. Poem. balsa wood. fragility, fear, terror, crash, window, memory, small, disappearing, mackerel, eaten up. Robert Johnstone. Prose. memories memory of Honest Ulsterman magazine publication. Stanzas for James Simmons. Poem. Tim Cook, Friendship. Beyond hatred tribalism, Troubles, Sectarianism. Suffering Sickness year Ubud, Hinduism, Dour Ulster Graveyard, legacy, positive, history bring together people. traditional masculinity. Portrush. Bredan Hamill. Poem. Railway Station, Morning. memory, meeting. friendship. To James Simmons. Poem. Michael Longley. Memory, irony, satire satiric. White Walls. Poem, Sadness, regret, separation. loss. Matin. Poem. Hugh Maxton, Wed Wednesday 7th Seventh October 2001. Leaving, left behind sad substance, material. air. loss. Heaney at Struga. Poem. Chris Agee. Seam Heaney, Greece, Macedonia Legends, Myths, Sisyphus, Axion, Eurydice, Family, daughter, bedroom, light, darkness. Sebald. Chris Agee. Poem, comparisons, simultaneity, war, Afghanistan, Marianas Trench, Srebrenica, Babel, tongues, loss, last photographs, memory, grief. Life. Poem. For George Russell. Life, fox urban, bins, nature, existence, universes, parallel worlds, God, darkness, space. Nightingale Nights. Medbh McGuckian. A Poem for St. Patrick's Day. poem. Growing old, Winter, Autumn, Fall, age, pain, bones, arthritis. Spring. Regrets. Advent. Anthony Cronin. Poem. Religion. Original sin. Jesus, God. Today in El Divino Salvador. Poem. Behavious. Humility. Devine. Mercy. Justice. Faith. Promises and Warnings. John Hughes. Poem. Nature, storms, prophecy, apocalyptic, apocalypse. Jims Simmons. Phillip Hobsbaum remembers. memory memories. Alight. John Montague, Poem. Young Love. Christmas. Rum, Jim Lad. John McGuckian. Poem. Ship Wreck, shipwreck expedition. Sellafield, radiation, contamination. Talking With My Brother. Poem. Brothers, family, love, memories, Ballymena United. nature, wildlife, flowers, existentialism. Free Ranging Geese. Poem. Joan Newmann. nature, birds, cooking, food. Hybrids. Claudy 1943. Pat Taylor. Cross community, sectarianism. childhood, Orange Hall, Catholicism. Bombs, Ballad, July 1972. Venturing. Poem. Tom Honey, painting, landscape, water, land, questioning. Tom Honeey remembers James Simmons. Ann Zell remembers James Simmons, Anne Tannahill remembers James Simmons. The Prologue To Henryson's Moral Fables. Seamus Heaney. Poem. Fables Aesop Robert Henryson. Crosshaven: Neptune calms the Sea. Poem. Robert Welch. Greek myths, classics, Triton, Cymonthoe, wind, blow, boats, storms adapted from Virgil Virgil's Aeneid Book 1. Into the Dark. Poem. Nigel McLoughlin. nature, danger road metaphor, life, truth, lies. Cellular. Prose Poem father family phones, reception, communication, hills, mountains. climb, climbing. John Fosse remembers James Simmons. Martin lynch remembers James Simmons. In an Altan Twilight, after Jerzy Harasymowicz cows music symphony nature metaphor. It is fine to Sing. Fred Johnston. Poem. sing singing silence, keening, sadness. Jude the Obscure on Eugenio Montale, Nect Wheel's Turn. Chris Abraham. Poem. cycling nature, landscape Derbyshire. Decay. Gary Allen. Poem. decay, rot landscape nature Twinbrook, Quoile Reservoir. Abortion. Pearls, Bird's Eggs steal stealing guilt, guilty, nature, landscape. garden. retribution,. revenge vengeance. After Cezanne, Martin Bennett, Poem. art artists painting composition. Border, liminal, in-between spaces, live, inhabit. Brendan McMahon. Night-Time Companions. Poem. Michael, Conaghan. trains, delays, memories Donegal childhood. children, sleep, Istiklal Caddesi. Poem. Noel Coneely. tram St Anthony's Church, tourists tourism, prayer, pray, culture, mess. Bog-Bean at Red Mires Loch. flowers, plants, description. nature. A Glass of Water, Gerald Dawe, Poem. In memory of Iain Crichton Smith) poem. geography, urban, country. She bends to wipe the spill from the floor. Desire, longing satiated. Poem. Jennifer Compton. Service Employee: Parking Lot, Rockford, Illinois. work family mother daughter. America, escape longing. Matthew Fluharty. A Slate Mirror. For Ruth and Garrett. Poem. Tom French. mirror reflection judgement. Home from the Hospital. Janet Galbraith. Poem. childhood children brother brothers sisters sisters memories injury injuries love, play. All Saints Day. Glen Grundle. Poem. summer cars memory lost Ballintoy. The Indian Who Though He was English. Khan Singh Kumar. racism, colonialism, history, race, culture. Communication. Bob Mairs. Poem. creativity, words, silence. Crystal Set. Eilish Martin. Poem. radio, wireless, troubles, peace-line peace line. escape. Lieselott Among the Blackberries. Poem. Gerda Mayer. picking fruit youth age old woman seniors elderly. Poem in Autumn. Joan McBreen. nature, words violence verbal. decay. Storm Front. Nigel McLoughlin. stormy nights. The soldering Iron. Poem. Art Murphy. work fixing labour labor childhood children creativity toys. Red Shoes 1944 Joan Newmann. Poem. Family Presents, hurt sore, smuggling. The Afternoon. Ken Smith. Poem. Life existence. brevity short meaning meaningless time passing. Haiku Matt Kirkham. Poem. BelfastLagan, nature, children, kids, play. Marina, Kate Newmann. Poem. history colonialism, tourism, local, locale, boats. European. globalisation. The Curragh Wrens. Poem. Nuali Ni Chonchuir. birds, nature, territory. The Camellia Walk, James. Norcliffe, loneliness, solitude, overcome, strength. Largo. Anamaria Crowe Seranno. Poem. Tours, museum museums colonial. history. Columban's Mammy. Grainne Tobin. Religion. Saints, Saint, family. vocation. land connection disconnection. Absent Child. Poem. Myra Vennard. loss disconnection searching search hoping, love desire longing. Now ids the Time for Smaller Things. Poem. Rachel Wiggans. nature, listen, cancer, insets, importance. Forever, Declan Feenan. Poem. fear mortality meaning history. The Legend of St. Frideswide. Poem. Lynn Wycherley. Saints, religion, woman women, feminism, femininity. You Probably Don't Remember Me. Ann Zell. Childhood, school, play, sexuality adolescence, contact lost friendship. prevail. Lindsay Hodges reviews Elish Martin's Slitting the Tongues of Jackdaws, Jean Bleakney, The Ripple Tank Experiment, Kate Newmann, The blind Woman in the Blue, Kerry Hardie Kerrie, Cry for the hot belly, Moyra Donaldson Snakeskin Stilettos, Beneath the Ice. End note Ruth Carr. last issue of the print edition.
Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone: Contributors: Aspenstrom, Swan, Scammell, Ferguson, Whitworth, Leigh, Longley, Fulton, Roddy, Reid, Napier, Smyth, ‘McLeftie’ Daugherty, O’Driscoll, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews: Simmons, Montrose, Stuchlick, Carson, Nolan, Glendinning, Jupp, Ingoldby, McBride. Cover by Ross Wilson.
poem, werner aspenstrom, 1956, translation, robin fulton, swedish, icaros and master granite, poetry, 73, flight, earth, weight, poem, werner aspenstrom, 1983, the snow-leopard, animal, cave, holy man, mountain, philosophy, stability, chomolungma, poem, werner aspenstrom, 1983, eyes, looking, watching, knots, wood, poem, jon swan, the corn lot, august, summer, grain, autumn, weather, poem, william scammell, byron’s bedroom, lord byron, sex, newstead abbey, bed, literature, poet, relationship, poem, neil ferguson, 1984, nina, plants, growth, flowers, garden, ground, soil, burial, future, poem, john whitworth, the things, daughter, child, play, objects, toys, poem, john whitworth, bank holiday afternoon, summer, leisure, beach, sea, poem, richard leigh, history of jazz, music, sound, photograph, memory, obscure, voice, interview, the longley tapes, michael longley, robert johnstone, poetry, music, family, sport, royal belfast academical institution, trinity college dublin, writing, illustration, james allen, lapwing, poems 1963-1983, poem, robin fulton, lines on ash wednesday, seasons, weather, cloud, religion, repentance, poem, andrew roddy, the planter’s cycle, potatoes, religion, growing up, church, lust, learning, time, growth, poem, christopher reid, little man, from katerina brac, clerk, office, poem, christopher reid, like a mirror, from katerina brac, reflection, memory, poem, christopher reid, io, from katerina brac, argus, gadfly, betrayal, poem, felicity napier, nullarbor, nullarbor plain, australia, relationship, loyalty, cormorants, faithful, poem, gerard smyth, sanctuary, night, intimacy, home, family, children, drama, lee macleftie, one night in february, a biased entertainment, northern ireland, troubles, conflict, sectarian, sectarianism, prods, taigs, protestant, catholic, red hand quality bottled guinness, papes, violence, childbirth, society, paddy’s whiskey, poem, michael daugherty, the crossing, parents, loss, child, mother, father, grief, bridge, memory, pain, poem, ciaran o’driscoll, winter landscape, farmer, snow, seasons, rural, ghosts, poem, ciaran o’driscoll, male fantasy no.1, greasy spoon cafe, custard tart, food, eating, desire, waitress, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, henri de montherlant, literature, france, french, broccliande, desert rose, review, james simmons, out of the sandbagged nets, selected poems, tony harrison, review, david montrose, poet and conspirator, dark glasses, blake morrison, review, martin mooney, the thug between the lines, mr punch, david harsent, review, martin mooney, a fragile neutrality, the non-aligned story-teller, thomas mccarthy, review, jarka stuchlik, smile, shiver, think, on the contrary and other poems, miroslav holub, review, ciaran carson, not-quite-real-ireland, real ireland, liam blake, brendan kennelly, review, paul nolan, drawing the line, dressed to kill, john darby, nothing but the same old story, liz curtis, the book, martyn turner, review, ciaran carson, iranian frankenstein in fermanagh, cuaifeach mo londubh bui, seamus mac annaidh, review, robin glendinning, the uncertain sons of ulster, observe the sons of ulster marching to the somme, frank mcguinness, review, peter jupp, tracey’s uneasy bedfellows, the poet suite, the stan tracey quartet, review, grace ingoldby, three sorry tales, the maiden dinosaur, janet mcneill, bridie steen, anne crone, the dark hole days, una woods, review, steve mcbride, fermanagh follies, across the water, grace ingoldby, review, james simmons, from yeats to friel, a critical history of modern irish drama 1891-1980, d. f. s. maxwell,
Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Associate Editor: John Wilson Foster. Contributors: Treby, Fallon, Duhig, O’Doherty, Szirtes, Kell, Mooney, Jude the Obscure, Scammell, O’Callaghan, Connolly, Smith, Simmons, Foster, Smyth, Ward, Andrews, Book Reviews by: Pegnall, O’Brien, Johnstone, Williams, Adair, Carolan.
poem, ivor c. treby, from twenty folk-poems of candia, place, donkeys, bee, animals, poem, peter fallon, poem, peter fallon, carolina, motel, travel, relationship, intimacy, woman, poem, ian duhig, dybenko’s demob, military, revolution, work, committee, carp, grishin front, poem, ian duhig, an irish footballer foresees his death, team, rugby, sport, stella maris rugby, religion, atheist, atheism, christianity, st john chrysostom, fiction, story, malachi o’doherty, a domestic incident, drinking, drink, alcohol, conflict, family, home, poem, george szirtes, a card skull in atlantis, artist’s materials, paper, paint, atlantis paper co, bones, poem, george szirtes, internal politics, the hungarian metro, garden, worm, grass, boundaries, poem, richard kell, at glen coe, scotland, tourism, landscape, ancient, death, place, poem, martin mooney, radio free nowhere, media, broadcasting, manifesto, poetry, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, henry de montherlant, novels, literature, french, essayist, un assassin est mon maitre, my boss is a murderer, essay, business section, postscript, jude the obscure, a posthumous novel, henry to montherlant, moustique, poem, william scammel, road movie, cars, driving, north circular road, vehicles, travel, loss, poem, julie o’callaghan, spree, shopping, shop, consumerism, meat, competition, groceries, poem, brendan connolly, judas and the blessing, bar, jesus, joke, disciples, poem, kevin smith, the lightness of being, sex, embarrassment, exposure, nakedness, naked, nude, bodies, genitals, poem, kevin smith, new words, words, love, communication, touch, autobiography, james simmons, from a boyhood in the colony, the northland road, childhood, school, eden terrace, olive mclaughlin, rosemount, place, derry, foyle college, magee, family, friends, strand road, londonderry, teetotallers, teetotal, growing up, biography, marriage, portrush, memory, asylum road, memoir, city, the city cinema, essay, critical forum, the hu critical forum, edited by john wilson foster, essay, feminism in the sound of ireland - a discussion, ailbhe smyth, immigrant, history, culture, colonisation, independence, freedom, identity, tradition, man, woman, femininity, women, women’s movement, irish women’s liberation movement, ann speed, pauline jackson, conversation, divorce referendum, caroline mccamley, trade union, irish women united, essay, feminism in the north of ireland - a reflection, margaret ward, symposium, feminism - our early years, joanna mcminn, feminist, belfast, northern ireland, eileen evason, coleraine women’s group, lunda edgertom, n. i. women’s rights movement, craigavon women’s group, socialist women’s group, belfast women’s collective, women’s action, women’s information group, letter, maren dunsby, dept of german, q. u. b., neither true nor beautiful, ulrike einspieler, seamus heaney, essay, elmer andrews, graham reid’s ‘ties of blood’: a failure of realism, television drama, playwright, drama, mccabe’s wall, the cry, the hidden curriculum, coming home, out of tune, invitation to a party, we’ll support you evermore, the military wing, review, peter pengall, spark of remote light, selected poems, oblique prayers, denise levertov, review, sean o’brien, life endured or enjoyed, poems 1956-86, james simmons, review, sean o’brien, unique particulars, selected poems 1968-1983, paul muldoon, review, robert johnstone, perception’s rings are safe, fables for love: poems new and selected, bill turner, review, robert johnstone, athletes and aesthetes, new chatto poets, alan jenkins, peter mcdonald, jo shapcott, dominic fisher, pippa little, lachlan mackinnon, adam thorpe, review, patrick williams, strange lights and dark shadows, mood of you, philip quaite, review, tom adair, more good conversation, writers at work: the paris review interviews, seventh series, george plimpton, review, nicholas carolan, the tuneful magpie, pocket guide to irish traditional music, ciaran carson,
Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Associate Editor: John Wilson Foster. Contributors: Duhig, Whitworth, Ewart, Higgins, Foley, Kelly, Morrow, Carson, McBreen, Boran, Sykes, Berkeley, Comins, Bernard, Jude the Obscure, Ross, Major, Robinson, Phillips, Crasnaru, Adcock, Tartler, Ursu. Book Reviews: O’Brien, McGuckian, Ingoldby, Johnstone, Adair, O’Toole.
poem, ian duhig, from the irish, language, gaelic, moon, sun, star, love, poem, john whitworth, you are my lucky star, relationships, sex, boys, poem, john whitworth, out walking with my son, my son not talking, parent, poem, john whitworth, perfect weather, daughter, parent, child, grass, father, poem, gavin ewart, how sir john betjeman rose above his station but never (to his credit) lost the common touch, poet, class, wealth, verse, writer, branded moes, poem, gavin ewart, leaving the land of cockaigne, cards, violence, lust, sex, drugs, aids, sexually transmitted disease, illness, heath, poem, rita ann higgins, he fought pigeons’ arses, didn’t he, lust, sex, relationships, war, poem, rita ann higgins, it’s all because we’re working class, glasses, wealth, coal-bag-washers, grass-eaters, taylor’s hill, poem, rita ann higgins, his mother was the problem with his veins, child, mother, parenting, abuse, after, death, dependent, relationships, poem, rita ann higgins, the did-you-come-yets of the western world, sex, orgasm, women, men, poem, michael foley, heaven, god, community, establishment, society, humour, poem, micael foley, heaven: behind closed doors, white, god, mary, sex, free will, poem, michael foly, the authentic voice of god, lonely, men, humanity, guidance, loneliness, poets, life, breakdown, poem, michael foley, ten o’clock, people, individuals, friendship, poem, michael foley, brooke park, derry, londonderry, conflict, violence, home, bourgeois, peace, poem, john kelly, the day james joyce was on the bus, enniskillen, tyrone constitution, dungannon, writer, poem, john kelly, the lenin mausoleum, death, enniskillen, dead, moscow, vladimir lenin, body, prose, memoir, john morrow remembers john hewitt, writer, poet, gorb, poets, friendship, friends, socialism, socialist, belfast, poem, ciaran carson, all the better to see you with, wedding, marriage, colours, red, invitation, bride, groom, poem, ciaran carson, snow, white, ping-pong, ross’s auction, poem, joan mcbreen, the saints, the lives of the saints, wuthering heights, nuns, the little flower, maria goretti, family, childhood, poem, joan mcbreen, the green quilt, childhood, banshee, fear, home, bed, mother, poem, pat boran, the tulip evangelist, flowerman, flowers, perfume, priest, tulips, poem, pat boran, a documentary, death, traffic, ambulance, cars, poem, christopher sykes, the ash-warrior speaks, fruit, bud, poem, sara berkeley, death of a red flower, relationship, bloom, memory, time, poem, sara berkeley, the beach, shore, clams, shells, sea, body, hair, weather, poem, oliver comins, personal data, solitude, cottage, alone, investments, money, poem, kathleen bernard, love in the country, countryside, relationship, visit, home, domestic, emotions, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, writer, literature, autobiography, annie ernaux, french, les armoires vides, ce qu’ils disent ou rien, poem, bernadette ross, reminiscences, railway, train 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the wild, meadow flower, mouth, room, review, sean o’brien, possibilities of digression, ciaran carson, the irish for no, review, medbh mcguckian, the light of the penurious moon, rita ann higgins, goddess on the mervue bus, review, medbh mcguckian, to pour is to fill, lionel shriver, the female of the species, review, grace ingoldby, the surreal border, peter hollywood, jane alley, review, robert johnstone, booze, jiggin’ and hussies, john morrow, sects and other stories, review, tom adair, an inward explorer, bernard mclaverty, the great profundo and other stories, review, tom adair, interiors with primal landscape, deirdre madden, the birds of the innocent wood, review, tom adair, tolerance and understanding, richard ellmann, oscar wilde, review, bridget o’toole, the rituals of respectability, walter allen, get out early, spring/summer 89 poem, john montague, fair head, sir john’s castle, relationship, desire, intimacy, o salutaris hostia, poem, john montague, matins, morning, sex, intimacy, bodies, body, poem, pat boran, his first confession, crime, sin, church, priest, child, poem, pat boran, the catherine-wheel, peenemunde, fireworks, childhood, water, pool, fear, poem, ian pople, aunt, suicide, death, tragedy, guns, community, stories, poem, ian pople, untitled, august 1987, sheep, cows, cattle, animals, valley, poem, ian pople, p. g. h. fender, lords, august 1980, percy, retirement, cricket, sport, glory, poem, conor o’callaghan, two poems, after montale, xenia, death, brother, family, music, talent, absence, love, saturday night, sunday morning, afterwards, house, wireless, light, brightness, poem, cahal dallat, meeting with death, hearse, dead, song, singing, derrybeg, idaho, yank, american, poem, cahal dallat, arthur mcgrail, saint james infirmary, song, death, memory, friendship, poem, patrick williams, breakfast with cathy, collingwood, belfast, father, child, poem, patrick williams, gleanings, for my parents, rose, flower, mournes, family, poem, patrick williams, in sickness, hospital, illness, sick, health, visiting, poem, maura johnston, timor mortis, patient, illness, medicine, fear of death, stranger, intimacy, poem, maura johnston, just suppose, relationship, life, poem, james kerry, the railway bridge, train, encounter, family, child, parenthood, parents, poem, james kerry, the willow tree, gardening, family, garden, parents, loss, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, annie ernaux, french, literature, novels, la femme gelee, the frozen woman, anti-plouc, la place, une femme, essay, critical forum, peter brooke, why the war will continue, edited by john wilson foster, northern ireland, republic of ireland, great britain, politics, john hume, devolution, new ireland form, towards a new ireland, gerry fitt, sdlp, power sharing, ango-irish agreement, democracy, essay, critical forum, sean farren, peter brooke - a reply, essay, critical forum, peter brooke, sean farren - a reply, review, gerald dawe, of tact and 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Editors: Ruth Hooley, Robert Johnstone. Associate Editor: John Wilson Foster. Contributors: Turner, Whitworth, Mac Intyre, Cook, Zel, McBreen, Hayes, Easter, Hearne, Jarry/Cutshall, Jude the Obscure, Kelly, Lovelock, Holmes, Cassidy, Mangan, McDonald, Smyth, Miller. Book Reviews: O’Brien, Sweeney, McDonald, Mitchell, Burnside, d’Agostino, Byron.
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editors: Ruth Carr, Frank Sewell. Contributors: Byard, Callimachi, Crooker, Dawe, Dullaghan, Hamberger, Holmes, Hull, Johnston, Kelley, Luery, Lynch, Mackey, Manibandhu, McBreen, Muldoon, Murray, Oxley, Phillips, Quigley, Skloot, Smith, Stevenson, Wright, Jude the Obscure, O’Searcaigh, Burleigh. Book Reviews by: McGrath, Murphy, Fitzgerald. Front cover by Collete Palmer. Free Print by Brian Gallagher.
Poem. The Milk Run, Oliva Byard. cows cattle cow milking dairy nature animals. The Anatomy of WildFlowers Wild Flowers Runmini Callimachi. Poem. family grandmother, nature surgery doctors cancer flowers. Romania. Meditation in Mid-October. Autumn, Fall, Wisconsin, Cancer, death choice, beginning end beginnings end. Barbara Crooker. Poem. Quartz, for Katrina Goldstone. Gerald Dawe. Emmigration. Immigration. Immigrants, Emigrants Immigrant Emigrant. Family ancestors. Ordnance Survey 24 - West Cork. Poem. Frank Dullaghan. maps, mapping geography history nature. Revolution. Poem. Robert Hamberger. gay homosexuality love lgbt repression hiding. Haiku. Clyde Holmes. Poem. Keats in Ireland. Gerald Hull, Poem. Belfast, Lagan, Dunluce, Donaghadee. Northern Ireland. Hawks Fred Johnston. Poem. Birds, flying, diving wildlife nature. Evenings. Ann Kelley. Poem. loss death missing lonely loneliness. Sometimes it's too late. Poem. Family, illness. hospital, pain, morphine, young, memories memory, loss, death. Staying the Night. Annabel Luery. Poem. Sex, love sleep intimacy, family child children. Apple Tree Angel dreams dream nightmare imagine family relative lover father mother sister brother. His Lover, love, sex physical beauty silence. In the City. Liam Lynch. Poem. birds starlings, urban, nature wildlife. Landfall. nature trees, flora. sea waves, meditation. solitary. Herring. Poem. Brian Mackey, fishermen drink drunks fight town pubs wives women pubs. Portrait Tobacco. woman, beauty disappointment tobacco paint painter, art artist portrait. Fifty Years. poem. Suddhisakti Manibandhu love passion desire. Camellia. Joan McBreen. flowers garden, grief love loss lost death separation name take control reclaim. Hibernus. nature, thought silence. Cradle Song for Asher. Paul Muldoon. Poem. child children birth hope. Homecoming. Poem. Paul Murray. Mournes, nature, flowers, mountains. The Burghers of Calais. William Oxley. Poem. Rodin sculpture art. France. The Ride Through Europe. Tim Phillips. travel borders lies, boredom, decay loss destruction contamination. pollution. Mr Lindlow death afterlife, mummified corpse. Blooding Nina Quigley. Poem. Autumn Fall Winter loss death decay grief grieving. Bulbs. growth flowers waiting birth nature. Gutted. Love children arguments argue strange blame guilt. The Tsar Comes to Amity Czar. Poem. Floyd Skloot. Nicholas. dreams hallucinations illness, Russia mushrooms, age sick sickness. End Stage. Illness death fragility. The Scat Singer. Poem. safety familiarity, family fear, familiar. Bee in Amber RT Smith. Poem. Beauty spiritual. Sourwood. beekeeping bees honey tradition ritual feat. Cowboys in Winter. Poem. John Stevenson. hospitals addiction guilt. waster useless. Flesh and Blood Howard Wright. Army Somme War gas curry colonial colonialism. exotic food curry. TB illness blood cough coughing. industrial industry. The Business Section. Jude the Obscure on Music Mostly French Cesar Franck. Cathal O Searcaigh interviewed by Niall McGrath Solitary Mystic. Free Brian Gallagher Print. The Blackburn and the Frog. Japan Japanese culture David Burleigh Cathal O' Searcaigh, Out in the Open reviewed by Niall McGrath, Gunter Grass, Selected Poem 1956 - 1993 reviewed by Paul Murphy, Frances Molloy, Women are the Scourge of the Earth reviewed by Jennifer Fitzgerald. Robert Greacen Ecstasy, Adrian Henry, The World's your Lobster, Joan Maizels, Stepping Gently reviewed by Paul Murphy. Milan Kundera, Identity, reviewed by Paul Murphy
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.
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.
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 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,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Sherin, Deane, Bland, O’Donnell, Rawling, Hooley, Shanahan, Levett, Whitworth, Ewart, Carson, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews by: Carson, Longley, Montrose, Deane, Andrews. Cover by Seamus Carmichael.
poem, joe sheerin, the jaliors of icarus, mythology, prison guard, escape, flight, enclosure, work, wings, wing, wax, poem, joe sheerin, household deities, gods, statues, religion, worship, materials, idols, poem, joe sheerin, hospital visit, mother, illness, death, dead, loss, grief, belongings, mourning, poem, joe sheerin, a country wife, bundornan, donegal, honeymoon, marriage, sea, fear, terror, farm, rural, loneliness, regret, relationship, poem, joe sheerin, agony column, marriage, affair, relationship, sex, guilt, shame, confession, silence, morality, decision making, advice, poem, seamus deane, aisling, dreaming, dreams, anger, emotions, danger, waiting, expectation, sign, poem, seamus deane, the party givers, hosting, host, night, friendship, friends, conversation, alcohol, parents, home, morning after, hangover, house, poem, peter bland, out of season, hotel du lac, mussolini, deterioration, switzerland, age, aging, abandoned, place, cards, poem, peter bland, at aldeburgh, for herbert lomas, beach, martello tower, sea, beach, england, englishness, constable, history, place, visiting, visit, the maltings, rural, poem, hugh o’donnell, occupant, place, room, rent, occupation, home, emptiness, empty, poem, tom rawling, the names of the sea-trout, fish, trout, fishing, sea, fisherman, water, tackle, desire, poem, tom rawling, torridge salmon, h. f. and t. h., island run, fish, river, bideford bay, swimming, fishing, fisherman, hook, killing, scales, poem, ruth hooley, on ice, family, relationship, daughter, parent, loss, separation, leaving, departure, white, bath, bathwater, poem, deirdre shanahan, film, cinema, community, village, rural, memory, images, remembering, childhood, past, place, landscape, poem, john levett, charms, lucky charms, sea, beauty, beach, love, silver skulls, golden skeleton, relationship, poem, john whitworth, love story, beata, beautiful, beauty, school, a levels, modigliani, art history, literature, youth, relationships, affairs, love, courting, desire, marriage, wedding, poem, gavin ewart, sonnet, equality of the sexes, gender, sex, feminism, sexism, discrimination, equality, essay, ciaran carson, a doll called madeleine, some notions about irish traditional music, slim whitman, china doll, memory, past, rose of arranmore, sean o riada, radio, darach o’cathain, caislean ui neill, essay, the hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, marcel proust, a la recherche due temps perdu, novel, french, france, cities of the plain, the sweet cheat gone, time recaptured, la belle epoque, review, ciaran carson, interesting times, as i roved out, cathal o’byrne, falls memories, gerry adams, belfast - an illustrated history, jonathan bardon, belfast - the making of the city, j. c. becket et al, review, edna longley, distorted perspective, seamus heaney, blake morrison, review, david montrose, heralding the cyclone, the hunt by night, derek mahon, review, seamus deane, black mountain jacobin, the liberty tree, tom paulin, review, brian andrews, shades of grey, the indoor park, sean o’brien, review, david montrose, the wizard of uz, continuous: 50 sonnets from “the school of eloquence”, tony harrison, u. s. martial, tony harrison, a kumquat for john keats, tony harrison, review david montrose, all furs and no knickers, pea soup, christopher reid,
Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Pitt-Kethley, O’Donoghue, Muldoon, Shanahan, Denniston, Simmons, Greacen, Foley, Gorman, Pybus, Cowman, Hill, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews: Simmons, Longley, Allen, McGuckian, Montrose, Ingoldby. Books of the Year: Morrow, Jude the Obscure, Foley, Muldoon, Tannahill, Dawe, Simmons. Cover by Ross Wilson.
poem, fiona pitt-kethley, from the secret commonwealth of scotland, michael scot, king of scotland, monarchy, history, pater noster, horse, berwick, england, nationality, conflict, st oran, st columba, iona, church, blood, the flying abbot, france, legend, james the fourth, james IV, monastery of sheen, the woman of leith, birth, midwife, the death of claverhouse, silver bullets, myth, jean weir’s confession, thomas weir, incest, sleuth hounds, borderers, dogs, dog, punishment, the second sight, vision, the apparition, funeral, the lost boy, langholm, mystery, poem, bernard o’donoghue, bittern, sex, heron, crane, bird, nature, fowler, standing, poem, paul muldoon, yellow ragwort, jane anderson, railway, trew-and-moy, golden spike, poem, deirdre shanahan, in the museum, brussels, exhibition, display, history, malines, objects, remains, clothing, memory, poem, edward c. denniston, i heard about brezhnev, leonid brezhnev, communism, cars, russia, rolls-royce, money, poem, james simmons, the poet’s breastplate, bed, getting up, the ballad of joe hill, death, strength, poetry, poet, nature, god, religion, society, prayer, poem, james simmons, the retired teacher rediscovers reading, teaching, books, jonathan cape, traveller’s library, retirement, university, poem, james simmons, the father to his children, shame, class, society, essay, robert greacen, the belfast poetry scene 1939-1945, culture, literature, tradition, history, louis macneive, john hewitt, michael mclaverty, second world war, AE, george william russell, roy mcfadden, ulster, poets, the new northman, john gallen, w. r. rogers, poem, michael foley, the poetry of clouds, work, desk, office, sky, poem, michael foley, beautiful departed, after laforgue, woman, desire, beauty, attraction, age, poem, damian gorman, mister wonderful, sex, youth, society, friendship, poem, damian gorman, the solipsist, love, relationship, separation, place, ireland, feature, review, hu books of the year, john morrow, timothy mo, sour sweet, the monkey king, jude the obscure, pierre magnan, la maison assassinee, michael foley, alice monroe, the beggar maid, something i’ve been meaning to tell you, paul muldoon, tar, c. k. williams, john o’connor, come day, go day, jonathon green, the cynic’s lexicon, anne tannahill, willa cather, the song of the lark, kristin lavrandsdatter, sigrid undset, gerald dawe, sebastian barry, the watercolourist, anna akhmatova poems, the world, the text and the critic, olivia smith, the politics of language, joseph brodsky, less than one, james simmons, randall jarrell, poetry and the age, ruth dudley edwards, the best of tone, john berryman, delusions, etc., bernard maclaverty, alasdair gray, janine, flannery o’connor, mystery and manners, david montrose, nineteen eighty-four, ralph ellison, invisible man, jorge ibarguengoitia, two crimes, richard h. francis, the whispering gallery, anna craig, dunscombe parker, birds of ireland, keith brochie, one man’s island, slow boat to china, gavin young, hannah chadwick, anne dickson, a woman in your own right, robert johnstone, norman mailer, ancient evenings, tom paulin, marianne elliott, partners in revolution: the united irishmen and france, lynda henderson, tom murphy, the gigli concert, ted hickey, kenneth mcconkey, sir john lavery, julian campbell, the irish impressionists, anthony green, a green part of the world, alasdair gray, lanark, milan kundera, the farewell party, the joke, stephen vizinezey, the innocent millionaire, seamus heaney, station island, craig raine, rich, john kilfeather, la regenta, leopoldo alas, the sweet-shop owner, graham swift, waterland, thomas mann, diaries, poem, rodney pybus, cicadas in their summers, evening, summer, insects, sound, senses, scent, smell, noise, black prince, cicada, listening, poem, rodney pybus, black pansies, flowers, flower, nature, darkness, petals, summer, sky, growth, poem, rodney pybus, out of the blue, after Johannes Vermeer, woman reading a letter, ekphrasis, painting, dutch, interior, woman, lover, love, appearance, light, separation, poem, poem, roisin cowman, logic, women, shame, sin, shameless, appearance, disgrace, poem, roisin cowman, berlioz: first love, desire, beauty, memory, forgetting, poem, roisin cowman, apple song, isaac newton, falling apple, fruit, fall, gravity, immortality, poem, selima hill, the sea water hall, aquarium, fish, glass, enclosure, amphibians, animals, anthropomorphism, essay, business section, jude the obscure, pierre sipriot, henri de montherlant, french, literature, paris, writer, review, james simmons, i have seen your workroom, the dead kingdom, john montague, review, edna longley, old pewter, station island, seamus heaney, review, michael allen, barbaric yawp, gibbous voice, venus and the rain, medbh mcguckian, review, david montrose, several perceptions, rich, craig raine, review, brain andrews, two-way split, news for babylon: the chatto book of westindian-british poetry, james berry, review, janusz ryszkowski, recent british poetry, antologia nowej poezji brytyjskiej, piotr sommer, jaroslaw anders, bohdan zadura, zycie literackie, translation, marcus wheeler, review, louis a. muinzer, a pioneer modernist, edith sodergran: modernist poet in finland, george c. schoolfield, review, g. d. ingoldby, the good, the bad and the ugly, the last romantic out of belfast, sam keery, to stay alive, linda anderson, sisters by rite, joan lingard, review, jude the obscure, jude encounter with o’casey, o’casey, james simmons, review, david montrose, on the edge of the crater, the time of the assassins, henry miller, anthony burgess,
Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Carson, Simmons, Hauge, Fulton, Fallon, Higgins, Jude the Obscure, Smyth, Kirkpatrick, O’Donnell, Duhig, Jacobs, Dubnov, Heath-Stubbs, Wilson Foster, Kearney, Bolger, Logan, Groves, Comins, Monahan, Henson, Cassidy, Parker, Reeves, Book Reviews: Grennan, Allen, Williams, Parker, Carson, Einspieler, Johnstone, Ingoldby, Longley, McWhirter.
poem, ciaran carson, the irish for no, ulster, cloreen, language, city, belfast, sensation, poem, ciaran carson, serial, black, belfast, falls road, guinness, ormsby, german, irish, poem, james simmons, the wallace collection, london, art, gallery, richard parke bonington, inconsolable widow, child with lamb, rubens, rembrandt, the tate, poem, james simmons, a message to the wife, love, kiss, sex, relationship, poem, james simmons, to have loved, smell, intimacy, body, love, poem, james simmons, thompson the gambler, game, cards, failure, poker, poem, olav h. hauge, translation, robin fulton, norwegian, an old-fashioned norwegian, grass, matgrass, poem, olav h. hauge, translation, robin fulton, norwegian, i was singing of a kindling stick, bumble bee, tar, fly, insects, poem, olav h. hauge, translation, robin fulton, norwegian, there are omen-bearers, omen, vision, poem, peter fallon, dipping day, raindance, swimming, water, poem, peter fallon, dung, cattle, cows, animals, rastafarians, poem, michael hofmann, from a to b and back again, northern line, train, hospital, illness, city, metropolis, poem, john higgins, child and the glassblower, glass, light, molten, material, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, henry de monterhlant, literature, french, the boys, novels, poem, gerard smyth, on the outskirts, road, traffic, sound, street, hearing, listening, poem, gerard smyth, icons, ordinary, sound, dawn-chorus, children, images, poem, johnston kirkpatrick, the roofer’s labourer, labour, building, work, poem, hugh o’donnell, mulladuff house, memory, rooms, place, family, childhood, absence, poem, ian duhig, from new triads, ireland, three, people, truth, lists, gael, poem, ian duhig, the man who invented craig raine, curry, london, diarrhoea, illness, sickness, poets, poem, ian duhig, the bradford count, in piam memoriam, fleece, ireland, dalesbreds, jocobs sheep, boland biscuits, poem, david jacobs, cricket helmets, sport, clothing, poem, eugene dobnov, translation, russian, john heath-stubbs, untitled, shoes, dress, clothing, critical forum, the hu critical forum, edited by john wilson foster, essay, richard kearney, the transitional crisis in irish culture, critical forum, hannah arendt, revivalism, modernism, heaney, sean mac bride, macbride, essay, j. w. f., richard kearney - a reply, critical forum, irish culture, poem, dermot bolger, second japanese sonnet, japan, forest, nature, birds, love, poem, anthony logan, tanka for mishima, for maria, coke, head, poem, paul groves, amends, backwards, return, reverse, wife, marriage, rewind, love, conflict, poem, paul groves, the right stuff, conflict, home, domestic, fight, fighting, milkman, poem, oliver comins, the coral club, axminster, dance, bar, light, nightclub, dancers, poem, noel monahan, cardboard box man, sin, local, individual, outsider, mental health, poem, stuart henson, last light, night, bat, bats, flight, animals, dark, poem, john cassidy, stray, animal, cat, territory, home, encounter, poem, john cassidy, walking on frogs, animals, death, bodies, responsibility, poem, michael parker, juliet, words, speaking, autumn, harvest, cucumbers, fish, poem, michael parker, servants of the state, christ, jesus, jerusalem, punishment, murder, cross, poem, gareth reeves, umbilical cord, baby, pregnancy, birth, bodies, male, men, fear, preparation, review, eamon grennan, a whimful, myopic book, the faber book of contemporary irish poetry, paul muldoon, review, gerald dawe, penetrating the gaps, the bright wave: an tonn gheal, poetry in irish now, dermot bolger, alan titley, the new oxford book of irish verse, thomas kinsella, the faber book of political verse, tom paulin, review, michael allen, a case of special pleading, the bloodaxe book of contemporary women poets: eleven british writers, jeni couzyn, review, patrick williams, under the influence, life by drowning: selected poems, jeni couzyn, review, michael parker, atonement and comedy, selected poems by u. a. fanthorpe, review, ciaran carson, third degree for mr. reid, katerina brac, christopher reid, review, ciaran carson, immense resource of langauge, o bruadair: selected poems of daibhi o bruadair, translated by michael harnett, review, ulrike einspieler, neither true nor beautiful, seamus heaney: ausgewahlte gedichte: selected poems, review, robert johnstone, short reviews, a second skin, patricia mccarthy, hard lines 2: new poetry and prose chosen by ian dury, pete townsend, alan bleasedale and fanny dubes, mangoes and bullets, john agard, selected poems 1976-1983, bill lewis, still life with pram, shirley bridges, love on the track, colin f. vaughan, dragons, margaret toms, review, grace ingoldby, flourishing in belfast, a man flourishing, sam hanna bell, review, edna longley, anglo-irish resurrection, escape from the anthill, hubert butler, setting foot on the shores of connemara, tim robinson, ulster: the common ground, e. estyn evans, changing the problem: post-porum reflections, dervla murphy, wolfe tone and the common name of irishman, hubert butler, review, george mcwhirter, odd bods: seamus simmons and james deane, seamus deane, celtic revivals: essays in modern irish literature, james simmons, honest ulsterman no.81,
John Hewitt Tribute Issue. Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Associate Editor: John Wilson Foster. Contributors: Craig, Grecan, Mackle, Campbell, Midgley, Grennan, McGuckian, Leigh, O’Donnell, Carr, Edmund, Wichert, Gillilian, Cram, Munden, Williams, Carson, Biggar, O’Brien, Allen, Dawe, Parker, Williams, Adair, Ingoldby.
feature, in memory of john hewitt, essay, patricia craig, john hewitt: a vertical man, death of john hewitt, memorial, methodist, writer, poet, belfast museum and art gallery, essay, robert greacen, john hewitt: a memoir, left wing, belfast, art, Coventry, friendship, poetry, essay, henry mackle, a personal appreciation of john hewitt, writer-in-residence at queen’s university, belfast, the rhyming weavers, essay, arthur campbell, art in the war, john hewitt, colin middleton, belfast, artists, poem, john midgley, to john hewitt, for my dear friend henry mackle, planter, gael, torr head, encounter, verse, shane’s cairn, poem, eamon grennan, porridge, breakfast, food, eating, smells, coffee, tea, sensation, milk, family, taste, poem, eamon grennan, broken statues, uncle, family, johannesburg, black, nigger, childhood, words, games, foreign, cousins, poem, medbh mcguckian, saskatoon, 1987, jazzmen say head, snow, driving, winter, blue, sky, poem, medbh mcguckian, minus 18 street, sleep, relationships, body, morning, dawn, snow, love, poem, medbh mcguckian, the man with two women, summer, sea, rain, kiss, winter, poem, richard leigh, traveller’s tales, travel, nature, animals, fauna, plants, exotic, experience, memory, fear, stories, poem, mary e. o’donnell, histories, architecture, europe, buildings, history, wealth, travel, poem, sally carr, organ practice, cathedral, music, air, poem, lauris edmond, the real things, gazelles, animals, gazelle, strangeness, flower, spring, poem, lauris edmond, family group, children, play, memory, photograph, occasion, conversation, poem, sabine wichert, the itch, for felic and markos, deer, children, play, nephew, family, poem, pamela gillilan, nil desperandum, care, truth, parent, strength, poem, david cram, education sentimentale, attraction, women, poem, paul munden, for sale, lot, chesterfield, old, antique, distressed, poem, paul munden, in the manchester reform club, building, gentlemen’s club, lunch, food, poem, patrick williams, colonel batt’s last letter, love, letters, correspondence, norfolk, poem, ciaran carson, the knee, injury, bullet, wound, clock bar, father, child, poem, ciaran carson, turn again, map, city, belfast, falls road, prose, essay, ciaran carson, question time, belfast, change, city, business, grand central hotel, divis flats, shankill road, falls road, cupar street, crumlin road jail, mountjoy street, azamor street, sugarfield street, peace lines, violence, conflict, fiction, hu business section, extract from a novel, joe biggar, the good districts and the bad districts, cliften, class, farset, review, sean o’brien, from woolly to wiry, the haw lantern, seamus heaney, review, michael allen, realism meets phantasmagoria, meeting the british, paul muldoon, review, gerald dawe, bad words and buzz words, fivemiletown, tom paulin, review, sean o’brien, something in films, the something in particular, john hughes, review, sean o’brien, prison-house of knowingness, acrimony, michael hofmann, review, sean o’brien, an uncertain clarity, report from the besieged city, zbigniew herbert, review, michael parker, the polish connection, no I’m not afraid, irina ratushinskaya, review, patrick williams, intelligence and integrity, collected poems, d. j. enright, review, tom adair, greene, hitchcock, moore?, the colour of blood, brian moore, review, grace ingoldby, bleeding quietly to death, priest, michael p. harding, across the narrow sea, sam hanna bell, review, ciaran carson, into the labyrinth, stones of aran, tim robinson, handbook to a hypothetical city, review, gerald dawe, tiochfaidh ar la, ten men dead: the story of the 1981 irish hunger strike, david beresford, review, eamon grennan, war correspondent, poetry in the wars, edna longely, review, medbh mcguckian, a picture two lives deep, penn, sara berkeley,
Editors: Ruth Hooley, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Ewart, Higgins, O’Sullivan, Hill, McWhirter, Treitel, Howley, Jude the Obscure, Welch, O’Hagan, Owen, McCabe. Book Reviews: Williams, Craig, Dawe, Whitworth, Cunningham, McMinn, Wilson, Clyde, Jude the Obscure, Hart, RJ.
poem, gavin ewart, you’re the pits, you’re the tops, cole porter, verse, refrain, worst, beats, thatcher, child-abuse, politics, tabloid news, contemporary society, poem, gavin ewart, the knight, gibbon, decline and fall of the roman empire, chapter, 1.viii, crusades, chivalry, courtesy, poem, gavin ewart, miss print writes an old-fashioned novel, words, dialogue, mistake, typing, poem, gavin ewart, author! author!, thomas hardy, rhyme, writing, writers, poem, rita ann higgins, his mother won’t die, underwear, family, mother-in-law, conflict, poem, rita ann higgins, cloud talker, brothers, men, love, labour, appearance, poem, mark o’sullivan, 1962, albania, eastern europe, god, sex, place, poem, mark o’sullivan, directions, rossadrehid post office, place, poem, selima hill, red cheeks, girls, thistles, dark, darkness, poem, selima hill, toothy, hippo, hippopotamus, animals, empathy, misery, poem, george mcwhirter, translation, gabriel zaid, spanish, nudist colony, animals, freedom, rhinoceros, giraffes, hippopotamus, heron, naked, bodies, poem, george mcwhirter, translation, gabriel zaid, spanish, gales, death, margaritas, weather, rain, storm, body, poem, george mcwhirter, translation, jose emilio pacheco, greek ‘y’, writing, letter, alphabet, ruin, stone, moss, poem, george mcwhirter, text: be fruitful, animals, growth, god, palamino star, nature, poem, jonathan treitel, lighting up. 1914, war, army, golden dawn, cigarettes, smoking, officer, trenches, poem, jonathan treitel, the wave of the future. 1916, navy, ships, dazzle-painting, futurists, camouflage, europe, war, poem, jonathan treitel, the savior of germany. 1918, potato, vegetables, kartoffel, armistice, rationing, food, reich, war, survival, poem, jonathan treitel, 1914-1918, smell, scent, olfactory, poetry, stanza, trench, war, soldier, army, no man’s land, prose, michael howley, visitors, viva, gun, policeman, conflict, crime, prose, michael howley, transition, night, twilight, evening, essay, the hu business section, jude goes to the movies, jude the obscure, film, criticism, ss prawer, caligari’s children, the film as a tale of terror, music, hitchcock, blackmail, sabotage, the man who knew too much, carol reed, the fallen idol, graham greene, ingmar bergman, the silence, fanny and alexander, jean giono, alain tanner, stanley kubrick, orson welles, terry southern, letter, letter, from meva maron, the stamps had squirrels on them, medbh mcguckian, translator, translation, ukrainian, tarusa, poem, robert welch, the child born in prison, from the irish of gofraidh fionn o dalaigh, cecinit c. 1360, for nessa and paul, jail, birth, mother, grief, sorrow, prisoner, poem, shelia o’hagan, temenos, three poems of ‘place’, spring, nature, autumn, seasons, viridian, valentia, dingle, colour, battersea, flowers, poem, jan owen, creek water, nature, frog, taddies, animals, poem, cathal mccabe, jealousy, sex, marriage, jealous, envy, swingers, swinging, poem, cathal mccabe, the ambassador, after rimbaud, newry, coffee, scone, eating, cappuchino, cappuccino, review, patrick williams, larkin the passionate clerk, collected poems, philip larkin, review, patricia craig, more anglo and afro than irish?, castle corner, joyce cary, gentleman rider: a biography of joyce cary, alan bishop, joyce cary remembered, barbara fisher, review, gerald dawe, never done with seeing, new and collected poems, richard wilbur, review, john whitworth, rubbing our noses in moonlight, blue shoes, matthew sweeney, radio poems, robin bell, review, francine cunningham, primary properties, the properties of breath, jean hanff korelitz, shibboleth, michael donaghy, review, joe mcminn, ripley, believe it or not, ripley bogle, robert mcliam wilson, review, tom clyde, mixed bags and cultural baggage, 16 on 16: irish writers on the easter rising, ed. dermot bolger, letters from the new island series, irishness in a changing society, ed. princess grace, review, jude the obscure, fr. leopold bloom p. p., wheat that springeth green, jf powers, j. f. powers, review, rj, dulse and yellow man, kathleen mcphelimy, review, tom hart, the honeycomb, pauline stainer, review, tom hart, the sea of affliction, rosemarie rowley, review, rj, warm bodies, ivor c. treby,
Editor: Tom Clyde. Contributors: Keery, Simmons, Wells, Bushe, Clutterbuck, Brennan, Duffy, Shepperson, Wheatley, Hearne, Kennedy, Mac Intyre, Mackey, McBreen, Curtis, Murphy, O’Sullivan, Quinn, Wright, Dawe, Jude the Obscure, Saleh, Dixon, Byard, Foster, Graham, Furney, Bennett, Montrose, Holmes, Kelly, Phillips, Paterson, Tillinghast,. Book Reviews: Craig, Water, Simpson, Whitworth, Mooney, Clyde.