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: Contributors: Carson, McGuckian, Muldoon, Dawe, Elliott, Magee, O’Logy, Jude the Obscure, Whitworth, Lomas, Carr, Smith, Rooney, Taylor, Cooke, Foster. Book Reviews by: Longley, Simmons, McDonald, Parker, Montrose, Johnstone, McBride, Dawe.
poem, ciaran carson, dresden, horse boyle, carrick, place, current affairs, ireland, donegal, rock, land, local, war, people, poem, medbh mcguckian, what does ‘early’ mean?, spring, ending, meaning, thought, rain, poem, medbh mcguckian, mrs orchard, house, home, december, winter, colour, wood, daughter, poem, paul muldoon, gone, forgetting, memory, smells, venetian goblets, poem, gerald dawe, shades, military band, soldiers, belfast, victory parade, people, photographs, past, memory, poem, andrew elliott, three mohicans or, what happens when you sleep, litter, rubbish, waste, eggs, hair, poem, andrew elliott, the cockatoo and the mill-horse, birds, flight, feathers, poem, wes magee, before the bench, 1864, gala, insanity, health, illness, asylum, poem, wes magee, littoral, tide, sea, litter, dusk, shore, poem, jean e. o’logy, spoof, for michael-the-mensch longley and with apologies to mr muldoon, mesghugannah, family, language, yiddish, schmuck, jewish, sex, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, henry de montherlant, france, french, literature, writer, the bachelors, poem, john whitworth, books are a load of books, protest, youth, the beatles, culture, poetry, literature, life, poet, family, parent, poem, herbert lamas, all souls’ day, mother, father, death, dead, childhood, identity, poem, sally carr, the snow builders, building, winter, play, children, poem, iain crichton smith, weeds, plants, nature, growth, poem, padraig rooney, the stamp collector, collection, collecting, avenue matignon, pictures, history, miniatures, poem, ron taylor, yo mi revisits his origins, home, poet, china, chinese, place, return, drinking, poetry, poem, angela cooke, gardener’s question time, radio, plants, garden, emotions, gardener, shrub, destruction, empathy, article, essay, john wilson foster, the critical condition of ulster, northern ireland, queens university, seamus deane, heroic styles: the tradition of an idea, declan kiberd, anglo-irish attitudes, seamus heaney, open letter, review, edna longley, north’s neglected consciousness, field day pamphlets, terence brown, the whole protestant community: the making of a historical myth, marianne elliott, watchmen in sion: the protestant idea of liberty, r. l. mccartney, liberty and authority in ireland, review, james simmons, brian friel, catholic playwright, selected plays of brian friel, introduced by seamus deane, review, peter mcdonald, starting to explore the prod mind, across a roaring hill: the protestant imagination in modern ireland, ed., gerald dawe, edna longley, review, michael parker, priest of the muses, michael longley, poems 1963-1983, review, david montrose, story lines, dangerous play: poems 1974-1984, review, robert johnstone, destiny of opposition, selected poems by pier paolo pasolini, trans., norman mcafee, luciano martinengo, review, david montrose, a carabinieri’s lot, the day of the owl, equal danger, leonardo sciascia, review, steve mcbride, small masterpiece, large disaster, the ferret fancier, as towns with fire, anthony c. west, review, gerald dawe, what happened to the decent life?, fighting with shadows, dermot healy,
Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Heaney, O’Brien, Coady, Korelitz, Durcan, Carson, Roper, McDonald, Sloan, Jude the Obscure, Book Reviews: Welch, Montrose, O’Toole, Simmons, Parker, Munizer, Moody, Jude the Obscure, Dawe, Foley, Ingoldby, Johnstone.
poem, seamus heaney, from clearances, cobblestone, past, family, history, objects, tea, mass, domestic, ireland, holy week, church, chestnut, poem, seamus heaney, the old team, sport, parade ground, football, moyola park f. c., sons of castledawson, poem, sean o’brien, geography, blue, sand, sea, landscape, place, poem, sean o’brien, the yard, white, garden, van loup, murder, captain flack, von zundert, city, urban, voices, poem, michael coady, letting go, abandoned, deserted, place, buildings, aherlow, carna, kilkenny, derelict, ruin, poem, michael coady, american ascension, ye men of galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven?, acts 1:11, museum town condominium, museum of modern art, new york city, religion, homeless, class, god, poem, jean hanff korelitz, ashes, for beatrice mchugh, death, dead, loss, god, irish, new york, catholicism, kiss, kissing, religion, ash wednesday, poem, not paul durcan, the critic meets christ, on the road near inniskeen, carrickmacross, ulster freedom fighters, special criminal court, ireland, monaghan, conflict, religion, war, thomas moore brigade, edna longley, poem, ciaran carson, patchwork, clothing, clothes, sewing, quilt, quilting, belfast, family, stitch, thread, poem, mark roper, soft down, boarding school, adolescence, dance, relationship, romance, hope, poem, mark roper, god, religion, evensong, light, poem, peter mcdonald, christmas, children, santa claus, father christmas, childhood, belfast, spaceship, presents, article, essay, barry sloan, the wages of paramilitary sin, a comment on two recent novels by northern irish writers, cal, bernard mclaverty, silver’s city, maurice leitch, murder, catholic, protestant, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, propertius, elegy, virgil, eclogues, henry de montherlant, french, literature, homosexuality, desert rose, the girls, review, robert welch, rational faith in the republic of the ordinary, from the irish, james simmons, review, david montrose, williams junior on williams senior, writing home, hugo williams, review, bridget o’toole, redefining the feminine view, bridget o’toole, making for the open: the chatto book of post-feminist poetry, carol rumens, review, james simmons, cavorting for a despised audience, c. peter reading, ukelele music, peter reading, lovely day for a wedding, john whitworth, review, michael parker, a bitter fool, a crack in the ice, jo sheerin, review, louis a. muinzer, an epic finnish compilation?, kalevalaL the land of the heroes, translation, w. f. kirby, m. a. branch, review, martin mooney, path of evasion towards utopia, ireland and the english crisis, tom paulin, review, jude the obscure, record of an honourable man, out of my class, john boyd, review, gerald dawe, a cry against the twilight, i also am of ireland, frances moffett, review, michael foley, korea, belfast and dublin, no mate for the magpie, frances molloy, review, g. d. ingoldby, farcical, funny and sad, resistance, mary jones, necessary treasons, maeve kelly, review, robert johnstone, judge not, that ye be not judged, the water is wide, elizabeth gibson,
Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Ewart, Whitworth, Gray, Saunders, Higgins, Holmes, Edmund, Geddes, Duhig, Jude the Obscure, Asley, Paulin, MacKimmon, Deane, Elliot, O’Rourke, Johnstone, Greene, Fahey, Kazantzis, Davis, Cooke, Rooney, Latham, Wood, Clampet. Book Reviews: Korelitz, Foley, Parker, Grennan, Dawe, Clyde, Ingoldby, Simmons.
poem, gavin ewart, in memory of philip arthur larkin, ch, obe, 1922-1985, westminster abbey, poet, writer, church, jazz, music, philip larkin, death, memorial, poem, gavin ewart, the life to come, age, aging, old, poem, john whitworth, a birthday present, father, daughter, advice, friendship, parenthood, poem, john whitworth, the book of law, sex, syphilis, aids, sexually transmitted disease, god, religion, poem, alasdair gray, to andrew, before one, infant, baby, words, parenthood, noun, verb, child, spoon, poem, donald g. saunders, king of beasts, lion, animal, cat, wild, nobility, poem, rita ann higgins, the day bridie o’flaherty was made mayor, family, history, money, poem, rita ann higgins, it’s about time, tuam, place, time, poem, timothy holmes, initiation, zulu, africa, mtwanami, childhood, poem, lauris edmond, cows, milk, landscape, grass, poem, lauris edmond, the traditional plays, illness, sickness, death bed, no plays, poem, gary geddes, time out for coca cola, business, labour, television, commercial, south american border, texas, guatemala, poem, gary geddes, from the terracotta army, pottery, horses, poem, gary geddes, spearman, weapon, armour, war, soldier, poem, ian duhig, double vision, or second sight again, geography, place, london, clapham common, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, henry de montherlant, the girls, literature, broceliande, playwright, chaos and night, poem, neil astley, a month in the country, russia, islayev, love, natalya petrovna, a month in the country, poem, tom paulin, defenester, sensation, manhattan, big bang, void, jan hus, poem, lachlan mackinnon, from a french court, child, abuse, marriage, family, poem, seamus deane, qui vivent en marge, a stone, rock, a bird, war, memory, nausea, margin, edge, liminal, sickness, body, sensation, paper, linen, poem, andrew elliott, a peep, sex, relationship, habit, poem, michael o’rourke, blackthorn stick, brambles, autumn, fall, stick, wood, blood, sloes, review, robert johnstone, picture postcards, poetic springs, a sense of place, david hammon, dba tv, channel four, a private resort, damian gorman, napoleon’s nose, tom paulin, garvaghey, the rough field, john montague, television, david barker, poem, angela greene, christening robe, baby, infant, newborn, clothing, name, poem, angela greene, turning point, tap dancing, dance, childhood, dance teacher, rhythm, poem, diane fahey, monet painting ‘poplars on the epte’, trees, painting, river, nature, impressionist, paint, artist, art, poem, judith kazantzis,my mother’s house, doves, birds, garden, sunlight, plants, flight, window, poem, hilary davies, in aphrodisias, aphrodite, statue, sculpture, greece, body, goddess, poem, angela cooke, murder, tea, cafe, marriage, relationship, conflict, poem, angela coke, aftermath, loss, death, absence, pain, emotion, body, mourning, funeral, poem, padraig rooney, adult education, writing, queer, rain, poem, john lantham, sad companion, friendship, cow, fire, den, childhood, poem, christopher woods, the bee keeper, hive, honey, swarms, insects, sound, interview, jean hanff korelitz, amy clampitt, what amy clampitt was like, the kingfisher, what the light was like, review, jean hanff korelitz, eastward bound from iowa, what the light was like, amy clampitt, review, michael foley, louis simpson: brareassed dogface, people live here: selected poems 1949-83, louis simpson, review, michael parker, an art to appease and assuage, elegies, douglas dunn, review, eamon grennan, the community and the individual, the lundys letter, gerald dawe, the berlin wall cafe, paul durcan, review, gerald dawe, a deeply unsettling disturbance, antarctica, derek mahon, review, tom clyde, continuing the slow implosion, the price of stone, richard murphy, review, tom clyde, three from sound of the border, the walking wounded, rory brennan, the lame waltzer, matthew sweeney, marginal zones, peter sirr, review, james simmons, a counterblast to paddy solemn, celtic revivals: essays in modern irish literature, seamus deane, review, grace ingoldby, why isn’t there more snow?, the female line, ruth hooley, n. i. women’s rights movement,
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,
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: 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.
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: 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 track, conversation, memory, poem, c. major, shade, light, garden, day, protection, poem, peter robinson, from pop art, to my brother and sisters, pierre reverdy, light and bitter, childhood, beer, memory, sensation, intimacy, poem, david phillips, sestina, writing, poetry, satisfaction, writer, candle, torture, poem, romanian women, daniela crasnaru, translation, fleur adcock, romanian, the lions of babylon, experience, writing, slaves, slavery, scribe, poem, romanian women, daniela crasnaru, translation, fleur adcock, romanian, image of childhood and a horse in world war II, horse-fairs, memory, past, second world war, soldiers, poem, romanian women, grete tartler, translation, fleur adcock, romanian, barometer, sea, body, breakdown, pressure, emotions, poem, romanian women, liliana ursu, translation, fleur adcock, romanian, from the secret history of the astronomers, cherries, rumi, breasts, body, hair, sea, poem, romanian women, liliana ursu, translation, fleur adcock, romanian, in 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 fidelity, seamus heaney, the government of the tongue, review, patrick williams, spare that tree, medbh mcguckian, on ballycastle beach, review, sean o’brien, relearning one’s place, robert harbinson, no surrender: an ulster childhood, song of erne, review, patricia craig, books fostering ‘irishness’, r. f. foster, modern ireland 1600-1972, review, robert johnstone, playing for ireland, stewart parker, three plays for ireland: northern star, heavenly bodies, pentecost,
Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone. Associate Editor: John Wilson Foster. Contributors: Montague, Boran, Pople, O’Callaghan, Dallat, Williams, Johnstone, Keery, Jude the Obscure, Brooke, Farren, Book Reviews: Dawe, Williams, O’Brien, Craig, Johnstone.
poem, bill turner, taking the oath, king james bible, god, religion, old testament, st pauls, poem, bill turner, wax testament, medicine, art, skeleton, wax modelling, disease, poem, joseph towne, sculptor, sculpture, anatomy, bodies, poem, bill turner, bedridden, sickbed, sickness, bed, illness, dying, prayer, praying, death, poem, bill turner, found causes, slogan, tolerance, inflation, poem, john whitworth, dreams to measure, poetry, poets, arts, poem, john whitworth, the poet entranced believes himself very important indeed, betrothed, love, tina turner, writer, poetry, poem, john whitworth, propero, innocence, girls, boys, children, childhood, daughters, sex, virginity, poem, tom macintyre, thrown from her horse, for olivia, theatre, play, hospital, injury, disability, snow white and the seven dwarves, crosshaven, poem, angela cooke, the keeper of the tapes, mother, memory, remember, daughter, poem, angela cooke, widower, death, crematorium, loss, absence, home, widow, poem, ann zell, herself, body, self, breasts, veins, skin, privacy, poem, ann zell, afterbirth, birth, pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, baby, life, hunger, panic, fear, poem, diane fahey, garden and sea, new year’s eve, 1986, rain, summer, place, nature, growing, waves, sand, poem, joan mcbreen, classibawn, childhood, play, games, summer, mullaghmore, poem, robert cole, gentles, towpath, river, maggots, compleat angler, fishing, fishing rod, poem, aidan hayes, openhandedness, letter, correspondence, landscape, butterfly, nature, poem, peter easter, here’s dirt in your eye, family, past, photographs, memory, time, age, childhood, poem, desmond hearne, merman, swimming, bather, limbs, aquarium, water, illusion, poem, desmond hearne, the lock, killyleagh, shoreline, sky, landscape, memory, sea, poem, desmond hearne, the harbour, killyleagh, uncle, sea, tide, shoreline, mussels, prose, alfred jarry, translation, j. a. cutshall, prologue to ‘haldernablou’, hell, city, phallus, enemy, god, sky, green, vulpuan, aster, symbolist, symolist, les minutes de sable memorial, cesar-antechrist, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, bird, charlie parker, jazz, music, the horn, john clellon holmes, billie holiday, thelonious monk ross russell, the sound, bird lives, red rodney, chan richardson, miles davis, biography, bebop, poem, translation, michael kelly, from the greek anthology, book xi, pollianus, xi, 127, muses, furies, inspiration, verse, social relief anybody?, theodoros, xi, 198, nosy, civil servant, after philippos, xi, 321, critics, criticism, post-structuralism, authors, nikarchos, xi, 328, sex, foursome, woman, amminos, xi, 413, food, garden, vegetables, emperor trajan, xi, 418, sundial, nose, poem, yann lovelock, poggio bracciolini’s praise-song of humanity, dante, language, intellect, tuscany, curia, classical, europe, st gall, punica, scribe, gian francesco poggio bracciolini, florence, council of constance, latin, greek, classics, poem, yann lovelock, farewell my lorelei, culture, grimm brothers, hollywood, movie, classics, poem, clyde holmes, curlew, bird, flight, flying, poem, clyde holmes, foxgloves, flowers, bees, plants, growth, poem, clyde holmes, pigeons, birds, wood, wings, flight, flying, poem, john cassidy, looking down on it, crow, morning, landscape, field, poem, gerald mangan, nights in black valley, night, mountain, rain, rural, morning, time, silence, moon, poem, peter mcdonald, sunday in great tew, oxfordshire, england, november, afternoon, pub, falklands, remembrance, poppy, death, drinking, english, winter, poem, damian smyth, the lie of the land, in memory of john hewitt, bonecastle, rumanian, town, children, place, countryside, language, generation, poem, keith millar, john hewitt, uncle johnny, family, art, galleries, spain, memory, smoking, review, sean o’brien, rescued from faint praise, michael longley, louis macneice: selected poems, edna longley, louis macneice: a study, review, matthew sweeney, poetry down on the street, poems 1963-1983, flesh and blood, c. k. williams, review, peter mcdonald, the holy mountain, john montague, mount eagle, review, domhnall mitchell, ambition and ambiguity, thomas kinsella, blood and family, review, sam burnside, quiet devotion to an idea, richard murphy, new selected poems, review, domhnall mitchell, a book from bedtime, andrew elliott, the creationists, review, leo d’agostino, getting away from the all, philippe jacottet, selected poems, derek mahon, review, janet shepperson, rita ann higgins, witch in the bushes, review, sam burnside, francis harvey, the rainmakers, review, sam burnside, harry clifton, the liberal cage, response, catherine byron, such declarations may be routine enough in the mcguckian household, patrick williams’ review of on ballycastle beach,
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.
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,
Editors: Ruth Hooley, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Gallagher T., Meyer, Lynch, Gallagher P, Lawson, Robertson, Uttley, Lykiard, Rice, Byron, Millar, Dunmore, McMillan, Keery, Lysaght, Greene, Tamplin, Foley, Scammell, Dawe, Drisceoil, Hughes, Craig, Hermana, Turner, Clyde, Topping. Cover by Ross Wilson.
poem, tess gallagher, legend with sea breeze, bells, death, sound, blue mountain road, winter, loss, mourning, horse, poem, tess gallagher, crazy menu, food, eating, loss, meal, love, poem, tess gallagher, thieves at the grave, confucian, flowers, gift, poem, bruce meyer, mangroves, wood, nature, life, living, ship, ocean, sea, dream, dreaming, fire, poem, bruce meyer, clothing, clothes, bodies, absence, memory, home, poem, thomas lynch, custody, divorce, separation, family, children, parenthood, grief, law, poem, the lives of women, feminism, inequality, female, babies, oppression, society, sexism, poem, howard wright, the interview, work, job, family, stress, poem, sam burnside, let the record show, records, identity, behaviour, rights, poem, sam burnside, the spade, digging, dig, lever, throw, poem, patrick gallagher, july drought, rossmore, animals, night, moon, dowra, farms, farm, guinness, rural, farmers, poem, patrick gallagher, in memory of philip larkin, d. 3 december 1985, poet, death, verse, writer, poem, sarah lawson, canto mcmlxxxviii (kalendae junii), ezra pound, pen, 1988, poetry, poetry, writing, satire, nonsense, poem, sarah lawson, camping above lake komorze, western poland, pines, trees, sunset, red, lake, colour, light, nature, july, poem, sarah lawson, measuring the net, tennis, summer, adolescence, teens, sport, sports, nostalgia, memory, poem, carole robertson, mother, mississippi, parent, relationship, telegram, mrs beeton, waterloo, essay, the hu business section, beckett: a reading by jude the obscure, samuel beckett, more pricks than kicks, murphy, dublin, surrealism, che sciagura, watt, mercier and camier, first love, krapp’s last tape, molloy, the unnameable, how it is, company, poem, bridget uttley, courty correspondent, royalty, royal, wedding, cathedral, prince, poem, bridget uttley, greenwich time, friendship, youth, party, dole, money, work, benefits, flat, home, poem, bridget uttley, cultivation, harebells, pansies, garden, plants, poetry, poem, alexis lykiard, listening to the blues again, music, father, subversion, billie holiday, bessie smith, louis armstrong, parent, conflict, poem adrian rice, the mason’s tongue, jah-bul-on, body, masonry, jahbulon, ritual, god, masonic, burial, death, poem, adrian rice, margaret mitchell, carrig, witch, witchcraft, magic, madness, drumgurland, poem, adrian rice, bread of sorrows, cassie, work, housework, barmbrack, poem, catherine byron, family circle, galway, 1984, potatoes, food, eating, mother, son, wheaten bread, bog, farm, rural, poem, keith millar, wind found, storm, birds, flight, stability, ravens, flying, poem, helen dunmore, incubi, children, days, relationship, safe, prose, douglas carson, sam hanna bell 1909-1990, memorial, death, writer, broadcaster, castle espie, county down, bbc, radio, erin’s orange lily, the islandmen, a kist o’ whistles, the hollow ball, the return room, the orangemen, within our province, a man flourishing, ulster tatler, across the narrow sea, december bride, poem, hugh mcmillan, more than geography, home, return, oban, kerrera, sea, travel, poem, james keery, easterly, waves, sea, wind, lapwings, shore, poem, sean lysaght, snipe, bird, november, bird watching, flying, flight, poem, sean lysaght, cormorant, birds, bird, water, eels, wings, poem, sean lysaght, meadow pipit, reafog, birds, bird, brood, wiesenpieper, wings, airplane, flight, poem j. f. greene, a final cut, death, ending, funeral, november, grave, absence, photographs, loss, poem, ronald tamplin, levelling a platform for the goathouse, icepick, trotsky, pickaxe, tool, goats, building, construction, poem, ronald tamplin, hot pastoral, gladstone, goats, trees, chopping, on heat, poem, ronald tamplin, interior with fire, goats and acrobat, goatshed, rembrant, dark, animals, eyes, fire, trust, poem, dead goat, death, animals, sheep, heaven, abraham, poem, study with goat, the unknown christ of hinduism, books, reading, goats, prose, david burleigh, the cry for a tender style, george buchanan 1904-89, writing, writer, author, literature, rose forbes, emotion, poetry, carcanet, ten irish poets, revolutionary revolution, letter, barbara fisher, sympathy is essential to the reader and the writer, joyce cary, art and reality, patricia craig, joyce cary remembered, review, michael foley, dublin syndrome and other irish disorders, no laughing matter: the life and times of flann o’brien, anthony cronin, review, michael foley, the simpsonland theme park, louis simpson, selected prose, review, william scammell, master muldoon, hull horations?, good afternoons, kit wright, biting the wax, peter mcdonald, review, gerald dawe, the world’s evening, denis devlin, the collected poems, denis devlin, review, proinsias o drisceoil, charting a new course?, gabriel rosenstock: portrait of the artist as an abominable snowman, translation, translated from the irish jason sommers and michael hartnett, nuala ni dhomhnaill, selected poems, translated by michael hartnett, translation, review, eamonn hughes, letting us eat cake, terence brown, ireland’s literature, review, patricia craig, travelling hopefully, robin bryans, ulster: a journey through the six counties, review, louise hermana, the forbidden well, wildish things: an anthology of new irish women’s writing, ed., ailbhe smyth, review, bill turner, sore thumb, rapped knuckles, john whitworth, tennis and sex and death, review, tom clyde, circles and cycles, make sense who may: essays on samuel beckett’s later works, edited by robin j. davis and lance st j. butler, review, angela topping, a catch of slippery salmon, litany for the pig, eva bourke, when you need them, clairr o’connor, in fields i hear them, jo slade, striking water, paul genga,
Editors: Ruth Hooley, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Swannell, Unrau, Grenham, Bamforth, Dallat, Dubnov, Swan, Graham, Mooney, Hearne, Homles, Treby, Charlton, Lovelock, Whitworth, Keery S, Jude the Obscure, McManus, Gallagher, Rouse, Roper, Meade, Gurney, Thompson, Easter, Phillips, O’Siadhail, Knight, Simmons, Craig, Clyde, Keery J, O’Brien, Burnside, Parker, Ruaire.
Editors: Ruth Hooley, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Bourke, Gallagher T, Kazantzis, Rodgers, Gaston, Hill, Moore, McNeill, Topping, Shepperson, McBreen, Cooke, Archibald, Maron, Byron, Anderson, Gallagher K, Fitzpatrick, Dawson, Newton, O;Malley, Wichert, Rowland, Crowe, Jude the Obscure, Turne. Book Reviews: Fitzgerald, Montaut, Shepperson, Anderson, O’Brian, Ramsey, Armstrong, Charlton, Hermana, Greacen,. Cover by Maria Holland.