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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Whitworth, Ewart, Daugherty, Gallagher, Curtis, Longley, Turner, Silcock, Szites, Montrose, Paulin, Johnstone, Dawe, Smyth, Runin, Cassidy, Cooke, Cash, Watt, Roper, Bigger (Jude the Obscure). Book Reviews: Carson, McDonald, McGuckian, Johnstone, Montrose, Maguire, Dawe.
poem, john whitworth, he is at present working on a novel, party, writer, writing, author, youth, emotion, people, relationships, art, characters, poem, gavin ewart, a journalist speaks out (in horror), edward field, the queen, shit, excrement, private parts, royalty, privacy, monarchy, poem, gavin ewart, three so-called sonnets, sonnet: o, my god!, religion, hallelujah, allah, jewish, roman catholic, destruction, poem, gavin ewart, sonnet: supernatural beings, women, woman, virgin mary, bodies, real, magic, angels, belief, poem, gavin ewart, sonnet: the last days, schubert in delirium, illness, death, age, old, hospital, possessions, poem, michael daugherty, lines from no-man’s-land, house, domestic, television, smoking, haunting, ghosts, wife, marriage, poem, simon curtis, die-hard, innocence, innocent, normandy, england, national service, poem, katherine gallagher, childless woman, mother, child, time, aging, women, essay, edna longley, shit or bust: the importance of keith douglas, poet, collected poems, poem, bill turner, apparatus: a rant, dogs, pets, dirt, animals, humans, darwin, slaughter, butcher, cruelty, horses, morality, poem, bill turner, caviare for the swans, birds, river, duckweed, food, plants, green, poem, ruth silcock, the use of animals in research, richard ryder, victims of science, morality, humanity, humans, empathy, suffering, science, poem, george szirtes, after attila, storm, weather, lightning, landscape, petals, nature, grass, poem, david montrose, about john clare, jim burns, eliot, poetry, poet, writing, countryside, nature, poem, david montrose, the cocknew beneath the skin, bow bells, speech, speaking, accent, class, poem, david montrose, family business, occasions, ceremony, church, funeral, wedding, home, letter, tom paulin, university of virginia, another look at the filed day question, field day pamphlets, robert johnstone, seamus heaney, review, letter, robert johnstone, poem, gerald dawe, sunday walk at ross, sea, coast, shore, searoods, cormorants, meeting, poem, gerald dawe, eternal homes, gerald dawe, rover, driving, sea shore, rock of ages, relationship, poem, gerald dawe, the desert campaign, donaghadee, community, place, sea shore, day-trip, travel, poem, gerald dawe, outside queen’s, queen’s university, trees, yeats, library, students, poem, gerard smyth, loneliness, june, wasteland, urban, night, rain, houses, travel, poem, gerard smyth, fever, hospital, night, soup, calm, illness, sick, nightime, fiction, ivan bunin, consuming fire, translation, michael pursglove, russian, saint-germain, isiah 33:14, cremation, death, paris, funeral, mourning, grief, burning, ceremony, poem, john cassidy, sea-lions off monterey, sea, animals, encounter, shore, coast, pacific, poem, john cassidy, waiting for the cable car, california, poem, angela cooke, brother, christmas card, running, childhood, siblings, family, nostalgia, poem, peter cash, going home, farm, rural, countryside, seasons, weather, lovers, leaving, poem, lucy anne watt, running away, childhood, dolls, child, play, night, doubt, poem, mark roper, signals, pollinators, flowers, insects, colour, fly, bee, poem, mark roper, brown study, scent, smell, father, memory, repulsion, brown, sensation, death, loss, love, extract from a novel, business section, joe biggar, jude the obscure, the good districts and the bad districts, millbank, farset, clifden, school, society, class, sex, adolscence, men, gender, review, ciaran carson, sweeneys ancient and modern, sweeney astray: a version from the irish, seamus heaney, review, peter mcdonald, geoffrey hill, the mystery of the charity of charles peguy, the lords of limit: essays on literature and ideas, review, a kind of english, the kingfisher, amy clampitt, review, robert johnstone, well-mannered verses, a round hose, matthew sweeney, minding ruth, aidan carl mathews, review, david montrose, in search of lost times, the ice factory, philip gross, saying hello at the station, selima hill, review, david montrose, michael foley, on the outside track, the go situation, cartoon, martyn turner, the passion of jamesie coyle, review, patrick maguire, derry gospel, armagh masterpiece, the passion of jamesie coyle, michael foley, come day - go day, john o’connor, review, gerald dawe, how’s your culture sticking out?, a fair fay: photographs from the west of ireland, martia parr, fintan o’toole,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Szirtes, Curtis, Longley, Taylor, Raine, O’Driscoll, Muldoon, Bleakley, Foley, Tallis, Bennett, McDonald, Ewart, Found, Cody, Matthews, McGuckian, Adcock, Scammell, Rumens, Orpwood, McCarthy, Levett, Simpson, Smyth, Cassidy, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews: Allen, Elliott, Montrose, Andrews, Johnstone. Cover by James Allen.
poem, george szirtes, ruggieri’s entertainment, king, servant, entertainment, queen, fireworks, smoke, fire, poem, george szirtes, the birds complain, bird, seduction, seducing, performance, poem, george szirtes, a small girl swinging, childhood, child, play, swing, sensation, fear, excitement, joy, poem, simon curtis, cuttings, daily telegraph, the times, the people, vogue, fashion, society, craze, england, sussex, kent, lloyds, news, newspapers, poem, michael longley, maggie moore’s, second hand clothes, clothing, sandy row, jumble, belongings, rags, rag, second-hand, poem, ron taylor, jazz pub, dance, bar, music, possibility, optimism, relationships, poem, craig raine, the first lesson, return, silence, speech, veteran, war, trauma, home, cadbury’s flake, poem, ciaran o’driscoll, dogbark, dog, bark, sound, silence, rain, record, pet, poem, paul muldoon, the main-mast, huskies, dog, wolf, athambra, journey, ship new york, poem, paul muldoon, other women, lobster, women, tongue, poem, alan bleakley, tremedda farm, storm, weather, rain, fox, animals, hunting, hunt, chickens, meat, chicken, poem, michael foley, information retrieval, facts, data, information, sex, gossip, reality, knowledge, poem, michael foley, strictly no re-admission, daddy cool, infidelity, fling, adultery, bojangles, bar, nightclub, lust, desire, poem, raymond tallis, meta-sonnet to the dark lady, night, lust, relationship, music, absence, emptiness, poem, peter mcdonald, interiors, 1, time, sleep, dream, clock back, night, 2, talent, nightmares, relationship, past, memory, 3, looking back, love, loss, underground, blue, colour, drinking, drink, sadness, poem, peter bennett, funny man, surgery, dance, injury, laughter, disability, poem, gavin ewart, a godly undertaking, evelyn waugh, soul, mole, men, pen, strong, wrong, prayer, poem, gavin ewart, how to write a poem in the american style, poetics, poetry, enjambment, ampersand, rhythm, poem, found poem, errata, poetry, catalogue, occasional clue, dragon-fly, numbers, durer, etching, art, saint george, poem, michael coady, the law of overhanging branches, tree, growth, property, ownership, landowner, roots, legal, boundaries, neighbours, poem, michael coady, wildlife spectacular, white rhino, mating, animals, sex, endangered species, wild animals, creation, living room, domestic, poem, aidan carl mathews, lawrence o’toole, confirmation, religion, names, lawrence of arabia, cinema, nazareth, middle east, saint, st lawrence, poem, medbh mcguckian, on not being your lover, love, intimacy, colour, desire, separation, poem, medbh mcguckian, the sudarium, child, stoicism, summer, autumn, poem, fleur adcock, coast to coast, for dannie abse and adrian henri, 1, west, shore to shining shore, canada, british columbia, victoria, lake district, landscape, environment, geography, home, travel, sea, place, pacific, 2, east, atlantic, saint john, new brunswick, antichrist, tourism, tourist, poem, william scammell, the world’s business, work, job, society, money, people, poem, carol rumens, fear, may, december, winter, snow, darkness, intimacy, lovers, sadness, companionship, sleep, relationship, poem, carol rumens, aubade, infant, baby, sleep, body, breath, breathing, presence, love, poem, jerry orpwood, playing the walkman, music, technology, listening, jogging, running, headphones, tape, poem, jerry orpwood, the father’s match, sports, pitch, fathers, play, family, poem, thomas mccarthy, the non-aligned storyteller, patrick white, the tree of man, memory, past, photographs, photography, prints, images, society, camera, poem, john levett, housework, home, house, domestic, pain, heart, relationship, poem, matt simpson, stretcher bearer, fruit, ypres, somme, blackberries, death, bodies, war, poem, gerard smyth, on the way, journey, travel, railway, train, landscape, carriage, station, poem, john cassidy, farm in pennsylvania, rural,valley, cultivation, growth, farming, graveyard, graves, poem, john cassidy, oklahoma city, place, usa, the end of the trail, cowboy, statue, horses, history, extract from a novel, business section, the business section, joe biggar, jude the obscure, london. belfast, farset, shankill road, falls road, class, middle-class, the good districts and the bad districts, clifden, milbank, society, aspiration, students, college, tarzan, jewish, review, michael allen, muldoon’s magic mushrooms, quoof, paul muldoon, review, andrew elliott, listening to the music-maker, selecter paul durcacn, ed. edna longley, jumping the train tracks with angela, paul durcan, review, david montrose, the book of teardrops and remembering, the memory of war and children in exile, james fenton, review, brian andrews, insufficient magic, short wave, george szirtes, review, david montrose, promissory note, nights in the iron hotel, michael hofmann, review, robert johnstone, guildering unselfconsciously, field day pamphlets nos. 1 to 3., a new look at the language by tom paulin, an open letter by seamus heaney, civilians and barbarians by seamus deane,
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,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: MacNeice, Levett, Reiss-Anderson, Jacobsen, Hunter, Henson, Ewart, Whitworth, McKinnon, Hughes, Longley, Taylor, Coulton, Latham, Armitage. Book Reviews by: Dawe, Longley, Ormsby.
introductory note, frank ormsby, louis macneice, essay, memoir, louis macneice, revantation, belfast, home, carrickfergus, northern ireland, birmingham, england, return, black mountain, mourne mountains, lagan, memory, poem, john levett, parliament, night, london, thames, city, law, politics, new year, poem, john levett, leaving, departure, landscape, cloud, dusk, vapour, atmosphere, driving, car, change, essay, louis macneice, experiences with images, writing, poetry, poet, image, poetic device, words, language, literature, train, railway, sea, bible, book of revelation, blind fireworks, the earth compels, the individualist speaks, the springboard, the dowser, order to view, homage to cliches, poem, gunnar reiss-andersen, translation, j. c. beckett, norwegian, after god, world, nature, thistle, sun, sea, absence, emptiness, religion, poem, rolf jacobsen, translation, j. c. beckett, norwegian, towers of sadness, emotion, labour, slaves, burgundy, baalbek, xeres de la frontera, swallows, building, essay, mercy hunter, a memoir of louis macneice, george galway maccann, armagh, portadown, ballinteggart, lorca, lament for ignacio, poet, greek, friend, friendship, hedli anderson, vinecash, john boyd, botanic avenue, bbc, visiting, a person from porlock, death, funeral, wake, home, house, poem, stuart henson, the trains, train, railway, sun-set, landscape, love, sex, lovers, poem, gavin ewart, the pope and i, the sun whose rays, the mikado, catholic, catholicism, writer, writing, bard, poem, john whitworth, slow left arm, cricket, sport, boredom, love, bowling, christopher morrison, essay, william t. mckinnon, the rector’s son, oh, this division of allegiance, essays in criticism, louis macneice, context, poems, the earth compels, the strings are false, carrickfergus, poetry, poet, w. h. auden, roundabout way, a journey through the six counties, bishop macneice, john frederick macneice, cadence, sermon, letters from iceland, poem, john hughes, the frosted window, in memory of eamonn quinn, autumn,funeral, death, loss, church, winter, burial, voice, memory, essay, edna longley, autumn journal, tonight we sleep/ on the banks of rubicon, louis macneice, 1938, the auden generation, morning post, w. b. yeats, poem, i. p. taylor, mallard, duck, ducks, birds, animals, flight, flying, lake, wings, sound, movement, bathing, essay, barbara coulton, an air-bourne bard, louis macneice, autumn journal, 1938, bbc, biography, career, tent burnt offerings, prayer before birth, the dark tower, zoo, i crossed the minch, they met on good friday, drama and features department, he had a date, nuts in may, the careerist, one eye wild, the two wicked sisters, india at first sight, autumn sequel, broadcasting, broadcaster, poem, john lantham, in the airing cupboard, cat, pet, enclosure, home, domestic, cotton, childhood, hotpress, clothes, heat, comfort, warmth, body, bodies, spying, essay, christopher m. armitage, macneice’s prose fiction, louis macneice, novelist, playwright, poet, genre, literature, author, the sixpence that rolled away, roundabout way, varieties of parable, review, gerald dawe, anatomist of melancholia, the strings are false, an unfinished autobiography, louis macneice, review, edna longley, gardens and cemeteries, the cave of making, the poetry of louis macneice, robyn marsack, review, frank ormsby, daily bread, louis macneice in the b. b. c., barbara coulton,
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,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Raine, Latham, Curtis, Mayer, Ewart, Bland, Dewar, Carr, Kirkpatrick, Gorman, Campbell, Smyth, Mathais, Platonov, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews by Allen, Johnstone, Montrose, Maxwell. Cover by Mary Farl Powers.
poem, craig raine, code napoleon, saul bellow, mr. sammler’s planet, enlightenment, france, tricolour, spain, buonaparte, samarkland, adultery, lust, poem, john latham, beneath the walnut table, childhood, hiding, shelter, secrets, hands, bodies, body, perception, perspective, shame, spying, lust, leisure, poem, tony curtis, affairs, 1, adultery, relationships, suicide, relationship, marriage, sex, identity, love, parent, ii, parenthood, confusion, disorientation, family, regret, poem, gerda mayer, for tommy, name, names, legend, tom-tom, doubting thomas, thomas the thief, wales, welsh, thomas sternes eliot, thomas a becket, tom cat, meaning, words, uncle tom, poem, gerda mayer, seven, seven deadly sins, avarice, lust, wrath, pride, gluttony, sloth, envy, personification, morality, poem, gavin ewart, the black mass, george macbeth, sylvia plath, the prisoner in the opal, initiates, malice, evil, bad, morality, ritual, religion, worship, prayer, occult, heresy, opposite, lucifer, the grimoire of honorius, sacrifice, a. e. mason, poem, gavin ewart, a poet considers his own poetry, sex, writing, writer, pastoral, poem, peter bland, the incredible expanding house, for michael cronin, extension, expansion, growth, imagination, home, building, garden, poem, peter bland, incident in manilla, rat, animal, killing, kill, birds, hunting, hotel, hilton, food, eating, poem, alan dewar, peak cavern, tourism, tourist, holiday, work, attention, water, rock, dark, geography, cave, thought, devil’s arse, castleton, derbyshire, poem, alan dewar, the royal hunt, stag, stag’s head, drinking, light, bar, pub, drink, beer, sensation, distortion, poem, sally carr, the den, survival, children, play, wild, survive, resilience, human, humanity, shelter, poem, sally carr, horse, animal, sensation, encounter, sound, belly, poem, johnston kirkpatrick, illusions, work, factory, shipyard, labour, craft, embroidery, truth, irony, poem, damian gorman, ditty, poet, poetry, love, catholicism, religion, innocence, themes, writer, fame, writing, success, poem, kerry campbell, divis flowers, children, girls, growing up, women, adolescence, adult, motherhood, mothers, feminism, domestic, poem, kerry campbell, fertility rite, relationship, break up, tension, separation, anger, barren, druid, summer, winter, love, poem, gerard smyth, face to face, winter, relationship, return, make-up, night, senses, sensation, intimacy, conflict, restoration, communication, poem, gerard smyth, prelude, nomads, travel, journey, morning, light, snow, dawn, intimacy, body, bodies, beginning, poem, roland mathias, terns at rossnaskill, rosnakill, donegal, birds, animals, coastal, sea, sand, beach, white, whiteness, flying, flight, movement, sound, hunting, hunt, dive, diving, mackerel, fish, shoal, fiction, andrei platonov, dry corn, translation, michael pursglove, rogachevka, russia, childhood, death, grandparents, family, labour, poverty, rural, ploughing, growing up, responsibility, resilience, growth, child, mother, care, work, rye, collective farm, corn, problem solving, community, survival, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, marcel proust, a la recherche du temps perdu, literature, french, france, novelist, champs elysees, swann, within a budding grove, homosexuality, sex, review, michael allen, foetal tissue, the flower master, medbh mcguckian, review, robert johnstone, ere babylon was dust, the fortunate traveller, derek walcott, review, david montrose, trickles, feeding the lake, john mole, a dark age, wes magee, dreaming in bronze, d. m. thomas, st. kilda’s parliament, douglas dunn, review, des maxwell, a long way from ballygullion, the essex factor, john morrow,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Ewart, Kazankis, Scammell, Rose, Hooley, Carson, Eglinton, Kerr, Kramer, Jenkins, Levett, Sweeney, Stafford, Gillilan, Vaughan, Allen, Jude the Obscure, Montrose, Johnstone, Dawe, Carson, Cover by Mary Farl Powers.
poem, gavin ewart, the innocents, ignorance, innocence, bigotry, discrimination, jews, reds, society, civilization, racism, belief, faith, fear, violence, genocide, religion, politics, irony, humour, poem, gavin ewart, haiku: mountaineering, death, sublime, alps, flies, vulnerability, climber, climbing, danger, mountain, poem, judith kazankis, on the coast, melon, leisure, holiday, children, relationship, distance, far away, sea, care, parenting, parenthood, thoughts, reflection, daydream, poem, william scammell, phoenix & co., lawrence, spinoza, life, nascent magyar impotence, ot morell, philosophy, gotterdammreung, fire, culture, literature, poem, dilys rose, as they fly, crow, crows, birds, omen, death, black, animal, flight, flying, feather, poem, ruth hooley, chosen exile, needle, sewing, thread, storm, weather, survival, birth, sky, outdoors, outside, poem, ciaran carson, blues, gallagher’s blues, blue mauritius, uncle, death, body, nicotine, cigarettes, smoking, family, loss, memory, poem, ciaran carson, rubbish, trash, objects, things, used, litter, residue, urban, industry, sickroom, sickness, connection, poem, eddna eglinton, looking at escape routes, correspondence, letters, notes, communication, urban, travel, journey, poem, edna eglinton, adrift, connection, separation, rescue, help, need, leaving, departure, water, boat, relationship, poem, robert kerr, remembering, love, sex, adolescence, adoration, schoolboy, desire, wife, family, comradeship, children, happiness, poem, lotte kramer, the last of winter, age, old age, letter, correspondence, sun, gratitude, company, people, death, grateful, health, place, resilience, spring, poem, mike jenkins, weekend child, university, cambridge, river cam, mother, father, divorce, communication, parents, parenthood, poem, john levett, return, destruction, weather, land, environment, renewal, landscape, change, trauma, poem, matthew sweeney, holiday, vacation, sea, beach, coast, home, house, garden, improvement, rain, weather, poem, joyce mcgreevy staffor, jacob owns up, jacob wrestling the angel, conflict, body, sensation, anger, desire, emotion, mythology, religion, poem, pamela gillilan, as if for ever, ice, cold, sketers, death, dead, poem, will vaughan, visiting, trees, tree, nature, weather, garden, gardener, abandonment, moss, grave, graveyard, headstone, death, life, poem, kate allen, playing funerals, burial, ritual, mummy, goodbye, departure, death, desire, afterlife, poem, kate allen, eve (mark III), god, religion, christianity, old testament, handmaid, disguise, burning bush, word made flesh, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, marcel proust, paris, a la recherche, literature, swann’s way, dumont, jewish, edward wilson, homosexuality, review, david montrose, passions, english subtitles, peter porter, a night in the gazebo, alan brownjohn, unplayed music, carol rumens, abcdefg hijklm npoqrst uvwxyz, thomas m. disch, review, robert johnstone, hyperbolics, two parts water, victor price, review, gerald dawe, bondage of the letter, the book of juniper, tom paulin, review, ciaran carson, o’riada and traditional music, our musical heritage, sean o raida,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Foley, Muldoon, Reid, Jacobs, Brown, Allan, Whitworth, Hardy, Adcock, McGuckian, Mahon, Ewart, Matthews, Hofmann, Rawlins, Curtis, Sheerin, Dawe, McFadden, Harper, McDonald, Bamforth, Kumor, Milne, Smith, Porter, Hewitt, Carson, Cassidy, Szirtes, Rumens, Durcan, Silcock, Jude the Obscure. Reviews by: Dawe, Montrose. Cover by Noel Connor.
poem, michael foley, my muse, sex, women, woman, inspiration, desire, lust, poem, michael foley, a dream of an unfair woman, poet, writer, poets, wives, wife, marriage, work, conflict, discord, dream, nightmare, anxiety, relationship, poem, paul muldoon, aisling, woman, aurora, anorexia, royal victoria hospital, illness, health, hunger-striker, medicine, obstacle, resilience, survival, poem, christopher reid, bravura passage, thames, river, london, city, traffic, industry, beauty, poem, christopher reid, bucolic interlude, pastoral, rural, countryside, nature, senses, work, poem, david jacobs, mr.bonavia decides to paint the front of the house, home, pride, home improvement, neighbour, youth, age, retired, labour, poem, poem, stewart brown, ms. mantis on sexual health politics, sex, passion, erotic, women, men, relationship, poem, r. n. allan, the girls from the high, teenagers, women, lust, desire, youth, beauty, helen of troy, high school, poem, john whitworth, barbarians, literary and debating society, youth, girls, women, loveliness, beauty, admiration, procedure, school, university, poem, tom hardy, moher revisited, clare, ireland, landscape, cliff, cliffs of moher, height, fear, icarus, bravery, danger, poem, fleur adcock, mary magdalene and the birds, seduction, women, performance, bird, blackbird, thrush, animals, pelican, humanity, body, swansong, poem, scythia, fleur adcock, scythia, central asia, eastern europe, antiquity, classical history, griffins, mythology, griffin, monster, nature, paradise, poem, medbh mcguckian, the aphrodisiac, marriage, sex, celibacy, lust, poem, medbh mcguckian, the flower master, foxgloves, daffodils, flower arrangement, beauty, craft, plants, tea ceremony, violets, lavender, hibiscus, poem, derek mahon, from the drunken boat, after rimbaud, ship, sea. violence, sinking, destruction, personification, weather, sensation, freedom, water, empathy, resilience, poem, gavin ewart, a pilgrimage, w. h. auden, the enemies of a bishop, bootham bar, poet, york, literature, sex, biography, poetry, writer, poem, tom matthews, the walking aid, hospital, health, paul of tarsus, escape, imagination, fantasy, illness, disability, poem, michael hofmann, tales of e. t. a. hoffman, hoffmann, the sandman, author, writer, emotion, stories, julia marc, poem, michael hofmann, occupational hazards, woman, sexual harassment, work, women, sexism, wife, workplace, poem, michael hofmann, reinstatement of the ideal, relationship, youth, love, dead bird, intimacy, separation, birds, poem, tom rawling, winter digging, labour, garden, soil, ancestors, nature, earth, body, sensation, poem, tom rawling, upper reading room, dickinson’s dictionary of cumberland dialect, nostalgia, memory, easter, friendship, dunt, eggs, poem, simon curtis, the grove, writing, writer, author, critic, money, business, make it new, poem, joe sheerin, heroics, hercules, labour, animals, work, survival, hunting, twelve labours of hercules, challenges, resilience, strength, poem, joe sheerin, a morning visit, god, religion, morality, behaviour, power, knight, children, wicked, light, morning, poem, gerald dawe, foreigner’s fort, family, past, memory, birth, self, poem, gerald dawe, secrets, religion, society, puritan, grandfather clock, poem, gerald dawe, the clock on a wall of farringdon gardens, 1971, time, regularity, fire, destruction, chaos, personification, object, memory, troubles, conflict, poem, roy mcfadden, after seymour’s funeral, death, will, survival, city, buildings, ghosts, belfast, ann street, destruction, war, violence, conflict, troubles, memory, poem, robin harper, mooring lines, sailing, sailor, boat, sea, adventure, confidence, limitation, harbour, poem, robin harper, a dog at home, pet, comfort, fur, dreams, red, animal, empathy, poem, peter mcdonald, good afternoon, music, home, carpet, ghosts, haunted, house, poem, peter mcdonald, st patrick, ireland, saint, nature, weather, prayer, sea, rain, god, grief, religion, passion, poem, iain bamforth, the illusion of the threshold, life, death, journey, light, lamp, shore, rain, deception, water, poem, iain bamforth, the moon at dawn, basho, nature, autumn, sadness, world, lost, relationship, leaving, rain, water, poem, leszek kumor, translation, marcus wheeler, selected aphorisms, philosophy, aspiration, truth, love, irony, humour, leda, common language, death, loss, society, people, reader, poem, ewart milne, return to reality, life, perception, self, world, creation, dimension, existence, real, transcendence, poem, gerard smyth, nocturne, sleep, night, insomniac, lust, drunkard’s song, nocturnal, chance, time, poem, peter porter, the orpheus avenue, spring, transport, infrastructure, underground, music, musicians, fear, mythology, underworld, danger, city, urban, poem, peter porter, another mannerist arrives, city, love, society, inferno, children, hope, innocence, end of the world, poem, john hewitt, executives third tier, work, budget, money, luddites, technology, poem, ciaran carson, dunne, writing, poetry, writer, loss, return, missing, absent, kidnapping, kidnap, missing person, fear, empathy, poem, john cassidy, late-night bus station, weather, transport, travel, rain, public, individuals, separation, isolation, society, empathy, communal, night, journey, poem, john cassidy, soundings, sea, rocks, waves, wrack, shore, rhythm, snorkelling, swimming, water, fish, crab, other world, poem, john cassidy, watching, animals, cold, night, nocturnal, dog, cat, owl, fear, activity, attention, images, poem, george szirtes, the claude glass, mirror, object, tiny, house, home, domestic, dutch, rural, family, decoration, picture, picturesque, poem, george szirtes, lilac, 1, flower, scent, smell, fragrance, water, personification, bullfinch, lilacs, 2, children, nature, sensation, summer, insects, wasps, innocence, pleasure, poem, carol rumens, some pieces from the white elephant stall, objects, second hand, used, belongings, past, trade, touch, desire, displacement, time, intimacy, poem, paul durcan, papua, new guinea, humour, loss, c. i. e., suicide, attitude, despair, recovery, resilience, train, irony, delay, poem, ruth silcock, william cowper’s hares, the gentleman’s magazine, 1784, poet, william cowper, leisure, animal, pet, care, pets, animals, protection, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, paris, art, artists, painting, painters, france, proust, a la recherche, elstir, balthus, rilke, review, gerald dawe, the state hope argued for, the selected john hewitt, review, david montrose, room temperature, a free translation, craig raine,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Whitworth, Goodenough, Cunningham, Towle, McGuckian, Ewart, Magee, Treby, Rose, Williams, Vaughan, Carr, Montrose, Rumans, Paulin, Phillips, O’Loughlin, Gillilian, Gurney, Kilfeather, Flynn, Squires, Dawe, Garfitt, Szirtes, Jude the Obscure. Reviews by: Paulin, O’Toole, Andrews, Dawe, Campfield, Carson, Montrose, Simmons. Cover by: Noel Connor.
poem, john whitworth, policeman, heliodora, sodomy, homosexuality, sex, love, loss, acheron, poem, judith goodenough, quarrel, relationship, loss, fight, independence, departure, forest, poem, judith goodenough, divinations, fortune, interpretation, future, witch, fear, decision making, poem, judith goodenough, low tide, coast, shells, beach, shellfish, meat, food, animals, blood, time, future, living, oyster, razor-clam, poem, tim cunningham, the living room, australasia, change, weather, animals, wildlife, clothing, animation, nature, return, industry, poem, rikk towle, the electric rose, light, electricity, artificial, plastic, industry, materials, future, loneliness, detachment, society, dystopia, happiness, poem, medbh mcguckian, the purification, mother, son, child, parenthood, religion, separation, relationship, loss, sanctity, poem, medbh mcguckian, the sea-wood, moon, sky, nature, isolation, poetry, poet, possession, attention, prose, a victorian enigma, gavin ewart, hair, body, genitalia, medicine, humanity, women, woman, gender, difference, alienation, poem, wes magee, mermaid, beach, alienation, alien, body, difference, displacement, foreign, strange, disability, poem, ivor treby, the pilcrow, punctuation, grammar, writing, poetry, language, writer, criticism, poem, ivor treby, the new girl, sex, relationship, rejection, desire, lust, strangers, alexander street, poem, dilys rose, a family affair, wedding, funeral, death, loss, ceremony, baby, burial, resilience, poem, dilys rose, i come here often, sea, beach, solitude, sensation, escape, nature, meditation, poem, patrick williams, for tiger and others, pet, loss, prayer, god, religion, faith, hope, lost, community, humanity, poem, patrick williams, strange country, sex, affair, relationship, love, separation, desire, loss, individuals, poem, will vaughan, leavetaking, old, age, elderly, dying, departure, loss, emptiness, sadness, anger, poem, will vaughan, in the afternoon, music, bach, sound, time, listening, isolation, intimacy, escape, poem, will vaughan, going back, foreign, emigre, emigration, home, return, loss, death, family, connection, departure, vodka, poland, relationship, sadness, love, poem, sally carr, castle, white, winter, building, history, snow, past, historical, poem, david montrose, watching the detectives, water, creature, horror, fishing, lake, rural, poem, david montrose, fugitive, home, house, abandonment, abandoned, derelict, bills, deterioration, absence, alimony, poem, carol rumens, memorial, marigolds, flowers, plants, nature, garden, loss, remembering, relationship, poem, tom paulin, under creon, rhododendrons, plants, growth, water-lilies, mccracken, biggar, hope, death, place, lesbos, greece, poem, adam phillips, narcissus, water, reflection, self, lake, trap, depth, danger, poem, michael o’loughlin, boxer, conflict, relationship, sadness, pain, resilience, hurt, heart, endurance, love, fight, poem, pamela gillian, villanelle, apples, apple, tree, harvest, possession, food, birds, fruit, autumn, feeding, acceptance, poem, pamela gillilan, cinderella, rags, age, aging, old, youth, appearance, isolation, empathy, poem, john gurney, bull-woman, woman, birth, life, body, wild, moorland, alcyone, spring, prose, siobhan kilfeather, marry your first love and never regret it, relationship, loss, mother, family, past, regret, poem, tony flynn, father michael’s waking dream, sin, desire, lust, sex, shame, black dog, shame, poem, tony flynn, these hours, child, care, sick, illness, love, parenthood, parent, nurse, poem, geoffrey squires, five short poems, 1, journey, meaning, life, 2, continuation, time, 3, war, violence, conflict, struggle, 4, life, death, emotions, 5, possession, hidden, perception, awareness, poem, gerald dawe, seamen’s mission, church, minister, religion, building, architecture, spirit, light, community, guidance, hope, poem, gerald dawe, the constitutional, bangor, coast, walk, stroll, night, evening, the people’s friend, beach, town, community, poem, gerald dawe, “on hearing irish spoken”, for michael longley, language, ireland, sound, kristofferson’s sunday mornin’ comin’ down, coast, wild, speaking, culture, poem, roger garfitt, the broken road, walk, nature, light, dark, water, rural, deterioration, poem, early rising, george szirtes, march, morning, dawn, blackbird, spring, love, intimacy, song, life, death, survival, resilience, empathy, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, paris, artists, art, draftsmanship, marie-clementine valadon, model, degas, women, woman, mary cassatt, maurice utrillo, painter, painting, review, tom paulin, george birmingham’s the red hand of ulster, george birmingham, review, bridget o’toole, a bizarre, coherent world, the hill station, j. g. farrell, review, brian andrews, the story so far, the echo gate, michael longley, selected poems 1963-1980, michael longley, review, gerald dawe, sweet discourses, courtyards in delft, derek mahon, review, dermot campfield, somewhat declined in shape and vigour, constantly singing, james simmons, review, ciaran carson, the poetry of the dispossessed, an duanaire, sean o tuama, thomas kinsella, review, david montrose, their masters’ voices, looking into the deep end, david sweetman, boy with a kite and other poems, ian caws, close relatives, vicki feaver, a strange routine, tony flynn, the orchard upstairs, penelope shuttle, review, james simmons, a butler of the gods, who is eddie linden, sebastian barker,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Bartlett, Damian Gorman, Meehan, Canterbury, Devine, Stapleton, Torney, Matthews, Morrow, Ewart, Foley, Michael Gorman, Orpwood, Crawford, Dawe, Treby, McDonald, Carr, Buchanan, Groves, Holmes, Jude the Obscure. Book reviews by Montrose, Andrews. Cover by JAMM.
poem, elizabeth bartlett, a pastoral crime, sex, hymen, rural, virginity, bodies, blood, horses, nature, change, poem, elizabeth bartlett, quite a day, class, home, domestic, family, mother, bureaucracy, judgement, means, shame, embarrassment, poem, elizabeth bartlett, heart and soul, loss, leaving, residue, home, house, belongings, self, body, love, resilience, relationship, poem, damian gorman, pierrot sonnet, memory, childhood, child, place, laughter, ruins, ulsterhall, nostalgia, poem, frankie meehan, fall, adolescence, missing, disappearance, school, memory, biology, youth, poem, frankie meehan, pent up, chickens, hens, animals, purpose, poem, john canterbury, the uncle, alcoholic, wino, alcohol, drinking, food, materials, sensation, drawing, sketching, poem, brian devine, the mender, craft, watch, mending, fixing, poem, kathleen jamie, baiting the fish, ice, death, smell, stench, animal, poem, laurence stapleton, the summer owl, yeats. reading, interruption, animal, sound, cry, bird, poem, martin torney, speech, disability, communication, deaf, dumb, people, others, sound, silence, underground, poem, tom matthews, postal proposal, marriage, letters, communication, fiction, john morrow, paramilitary tennis, sport, exercise, middle age, aging, fiction, john morrow, tommy carlisle, river, pollution, lagan, blackstaff, danger, survival, community, sickness, miracle, disease, healer, healing, success, resilience, fame, poem, gavin ewart, christmas 1980, society, season, festival, contemporary, pagan, christian, thatcher, regan, politics, carols, poem, gavin ewart, sonnet: playing for time, auschwitz, arthur miller, holocaust, racism, humanity, gender, human, empathy, genocide, poem, michael foley, the go situation, philosophy, writing, writers, poetry, protection, shelter, involvement, exposure, confidence, poem, michael gorman, grandmother, after the vacation, family, emigration, emigre, usa, new york, chicago, sligo, rural, ireland, barber, community, devotions, tradition, poem, jerry orpwood, miracles of sight, st bueno’s church, pistyll, gwynedd, light, sight, eyes, dark, vision, poem, john crawford, saint cuthbert on inner farne, naming the parts, words, names, harcar, wamses, skeney’s, farne, sound, religion, survivor, solitude, cell, elements, weather, nature, the sea, coast, rock, water, wave, winter, ice, cold, freedom, prayer, sanctuary, ocean, dusk, spirit, world, praying, hope, resilience, poem, gerald dawe, old dispensations, society, war, army, heroes, forgetting, poem, gerald dawe, another version, for john hewitt, past, ireland, society, history, poem, gerald dawe, alba, house, home, night, dark, bedroom, insects, vision, poem, ivor treby, not as we thought, faustus, confucius, history, myth, truth, greek mythology, pythoness, proteus, dido, semele, aeneas, fates, dionysius, hesperides, alecto, sphinx, leviathan, cerberus, muses, sirens, orpheus, poem, peter mcdonald, treasure, darkness, dark, stone, sea, precious, religion, crucifix, prayer, light, christ, hope, poem, peter mcdonald, the war in heaven, jellyfish, sea, tide, storm, weather, destruction, coast, poem, afterwards, sally carr, play, children, water, river, swimming, adult, fun, evening, poem, george buchanan, sick-visit, harvest, society, illness, health, cliche, poem, george buchanan, still-life, poetry, poets, community, communal, reading, language, stillness, silence, poem, paul groves, “some news”, hope, sound, waiting, anxiety, accident, danger, storm, poem, paul groves, thunder, kittens, kitten, cat, animals, killing, death, migraine, drowning, mourning, weather, pathetic fallacy, trauma, poem, clyde holmes, mirror carp, fish, animal, fishing, water, poem, clyde holmes, lichens, growth, growing, nature, deterioration, ruins, algae, fungi, slug, poem, clyde holmes, skylark, bird, animal, flight, flying, song, music, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, paris, art, artists, montmartre, place, picasso, max jacob, juan gris, cezanne, theophile alexandre steinlen, theophile steinlen, toulouse-lautrec, review, david montrose, talking to the forest, who shall be the sun, david wagoner, review, brian andrews, hearing voices, preoccupations, selected prose, seamus heaney, selected poems 1965-1975, seamus heaney,