Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: McFadden, Paulin, Ormsby, Gorman, Magee, Morrow, Sheerin, Brennan, McMann, Simms, Denman, Buchanan, Montrose, Glendinning, King, Squires, Daly, Hutchinson, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Noel Connor.
poem, roy mcfadden, the grand central hotel, local, accent, mother tongue, elocution, place, setting, belfast, royal avenue, gresham street, wartime, war, city, urban, victoria square, bombs, bombing, poem, tom paulin, the other voice, belfast, literature, culture, friendship, plekhanov, homer, raskolnikov, history, art, theatre, poetry, russia, moscow, baltic, sound, voice, language, place, poem, from a belfast journal, frank ormsby, v, family, glasses, eyesight, vision, optician, sight, writer, writing, poet, vi, running, sunset, time, childhood, poem, michael gorman, postcards from galway, i, desertion, season, holiday,warwick hotel, salthill, walking, walk, relationship, leaving, ii, expectant, rahoon, domestic, class, change, iii, on the streets, place, ireland, individuals, eyre square, development, loss, iv, the pathologist, murder, death, tuam, corpse, cadaver, v, summer again, tinker, waiting, poem, wes magee, hwyl, vetch field, swansea, f. a. cup replay, football, sport, game, match, fiction, john morrow, lonely heart, 1944, ritz cinema, belfast, wartime, war, car accident, death, dum-dum bullet, allies, vehicles, troops, army, yanks, poem, joe sheerin, the lover, death, life, romance, love, family, loss, departure, leaving, father, poem, joe sheerin, habits, intimacy, relationship, kiss, kissing, spit, saliva, sex, change, home, poem, rory brennan, mask of a mycenean prince, face, power, monarchy, past, time, poem, rory brennan, to put your house in order, time, aging, building, decay, deterioration, youth, raven, poem, trevor mcmahon, honey, out of the strong came forth sweetness, bees, hive, fear, gender, queen, animals, male, female, poem, jacqueline simms, the bridge, river, building, infrastructure, weather, poem, peter denman, the vanity of wishing wells, coins, water, hope, tadpole, death, desire, poem, peter denman, thaw, ice, cold, winter, fire, snow, poem, george buchanan, jill’s death, flowers, life, mourning, memory, memorial, poem, david montrose, after the interview, job, employment, work, career, underdog, unemployment, self-worth, confidence, poem, david montrose, burned bridges, finality, change, action, relationships, anger, words, regret, poem, robin glendinning, gazebo of love, change, passing time, wedding, kissing, kiss, lovers, seed, growth, poem, patrick king, moving out, housing, rent, home, relationship, change, leaving, time, domestic, garden, poem, patrick king, from the madness of sweeney, sweeney’s capture, family, bird, detachment, loss, death, grief, sadness, poem, geoffrey squires, landscape, journey, memory, details, bridge, poem, geoffrey squires, foreground, bush, nature, poem, geoffrey squires, light, illumination, landscape, clarity, poem, padraig j, daly, nun, poverty, building, decoration, interiors, change, school, god, memory, nostalgia, poem, padraig j. daly, lovesong, memory, remembering, place, relationship, love, beauty, beach, river, hotel, poem, w. r. hutchinson, requiem for a crop, autumn, harvest, food, growth, nature, victoria, purgatory, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, george ade, country, city, chicago, artie, pink marsh, any other business, review, felix vallotton, perception in the form of shocks, woodcut, la manefestation, any other business, review, jesus christ superflop, michael foley, the life of jamesie coyle, review, brian andrews, industrial workings, w. b. yeats, the critical heritage, a norman jeffares,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Adcock, Heffer, McCarthy, Rumens, Sutherland-Smith, Newmann, Hamilton, Young, Stephens, Okudzhava, Apollinaire, Ewart, Porter, Maxton, Cassidy, Conran, Harrop, O’Brien, Wiljer, Simms, Paulin, Caws, Clothier, McMillan, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Michael Morgan.
poem, fleur adcock, syringa, charing cross embankment, city, society, drunks, outsiders, place, gentrification, urban, poem, fleur adcock, this ungentle music, mozart, leukaemia, illness, records, poem, linda heffer, crossroads, catholicism, church, dances, leisure, drinking, drink, behaviour, poem, patricia mccarthy, linguist, language, speaking, sex, intimacy, body, speech, relationship, distance, poem, patricia mccarthy, the other woman, difference, women, contrast, personality, poem, carol rumens, redundant, radio, sound, voices, coffee, morning, employment, job, work, poem, carol rumens, peasant, behaviour, mood, class, personality, communication, connection, wife, husband, marriage, poem, james sutherland-smith, bull, drunk, alcoholic, alcohol, humiliation, excretion, poem, joan newmann, the roadman, labour, work, spade, digging, poem, joan newmann, wesley again, pup, puppy, bike, bicycle, poem, joan newmann, anyone would be better anywhere, family, conflict, emotions, break-up, poem, robin hamilton, another glance at cosmology, god, cosmos, stars, star, sky, creation, poem, augustus young, song 1, don’t dance on my crumbs, birth, growth, life, family, rejection, down-and-out, outsider, hopelessness, hope, poverty, poem, michael stephens, gethsemane, christ, goodness, trying, good, christianity, morality, religion, understanding, punishment, violence, crucifixion, poem, bulat okudzhava, translation, robert reid, barmrack, brambrack, bread, fruit loaf, baking, cooking, food, eating, poem, from le bestiaire of guillaume apollinaire, translation, peter denman, goat of tibet, animals, animal, beasts, snake, cat, rabbit, camel, mouse, elephant, flea, locust, dolphin, crayfish, carp, peacock, owl, ibis, bull, god, fish, insects, mammals, birds, poem, gavin ewart, evening class at college of further education, students, studying, swinburne, english, language, school, grammar, words, sisiphus, knowledge, teaching, teacher, poem, peter porter, the bomb will not drop, growth, cats, ashbery, poetry, poet, writing, ambition, age, birthday, trivia, middle age, older, poem, hugh maxton, a death in the mountains, in memory of bob strachan, january, winter, death, car, ending, poem, john cassidy, la gran’mere du chimquiere, statue, sculpture, art, ekphrasis, guernsey, neolithic, idol, sentry, grandmother, woman, goddess, gatepost, destruction, deterioration, iconoclasm, poem, anthony conran, oyster, for seamus heaney, shellfish, sea shell, creature, animal, slime, lime, white, whiteness, bi-valves, body, poem, les harrop, northern gothic, intimacy, danish, body, head, skull, house, landscape, dog, hound, romantic, poem, les harrop, birthday weather, wind, life, death, age, aging, poem, sean o’brien, the park by the railway, for sara, pastoral, urban, city, nature, industrial, romance, relationship, love, trains, choice, loss, poem, robert wiljer, niagara falls: the honeymooners paradise, goat island, landscape, waterfall, annie taylor, annie edson taylor, rainbow, water, maid of the mist, tourism, america, fall, survival, skylon tower, marriage, wedding, poem, jaqueline simms, in context, cloister, place, environment, building, order, monastery, movement, space, desire, poem, jaqueline simms, waning virility, gender, male, female, farrell, singapore grip, sun, moon, difference, light, pills, pill, poem, tom paulin, pings on the great globe, dirt, residue, comedian, little, trash, rubbish, world, smell, pollution, poem, ian caws, riders, february, winter, horses, horse, animals, movement, beach, shore, poem, cal clothier, in the sun, sand, shore, beach, shells, sea shells, intimacy, bodies, consciousness, love, poem, ian mcmillan, here comes summer, hay-fever, seasons, radio, sweat, heat, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, art, comic-strip, drawing, winsor mccay, george herriman, george ade, funnies, newspaper, democracy, pop culture, comics, little nemo, review, david montrose, smiling azrael, kalki, gore vidal, the apostate angel: a critical study of gore vidal, bernard f. dick, review, david montrose, urbane guerilla, matters of fact and of fiction, essays 1973-1976, gore vidal, review, paul muldoon, closely observed raine’s the onion, memory, craig raine, review, brian andrews, overhearing secret harmonies, the pleasure steamers, andrew motion, poem, p. benedict muldoon, paul muldoon, lines on the publication of, so, farewell them...and other poems, e. j. thribb, poet, poetry, british, review, review, victor price, three heavies, selections from the contributions to the irish homestead, g. w. russell, henry summerfield, the journals, lady gregory, volume one, daniel j. murphy, a study of the novels of george moore, richard cave, review, ciaran carson, many music, traditional music in ireland, tomas o canainn,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Mahon, Muldoon, Heaney, Montague, Ormsby, Clarke, Peskett, McFadden, Rumens, Durcan, Stallworthy, Matthews, Adcock, Porter, Morrow, Ewart, Cam, Raine, Conran, Kennelly, Simmons, Cassidy, Paulin, Carson, Waterman, Buchanan, Williams, Johnstone, Longley, Platinov, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Geraldine Sweeney.
poem, derek mahon, autobiographies, the home front, stalingrad, war, domestic, baby, infant, wartime, bombs, child, childhood, soldiers, army, air-raid shelters, lucky strike, vera lynn, world war 2, second world war, yanks, memory, the lost girls, skegoneill primary school, play, pupil, kenya, neighbour, desire, loss, past, the last resort, beach, holiday, strandmore hotel, july, adolescence, desire, boyhood, rain, arcadia, the bicycle, cycling, raleigh, the third policeman, vehicle, travel, poem, paul muldoon, truce, war, soldiers, christmas, first world war, great war, german, polish, festival, world war 2, peace, poem, seamus heaney, high summer, child, heat, season, nature, fishing, rural, countryside, maggots, flies, insects, warmth, weather, writing, writer, poem, seamus heaney, polder, water, dyke, floods, dutch, intimacy, protection, poem, john montague, the absent lamb, affair, adultery, relationships, postmistress, sea, coastal, storm, weather, driving, survival, falling trees, seacast, poem, frank ormsby, the barn, wind, weather, elements, destruction, trees, neill’s plantation, river lane, johnny’s hill, the bed of straw, nature, man, names, poem, gillian clarke, ram, sheep, animal, body, nature, eye, october, buzzard, bone, remains, corpse, death, disintegration, growth, rotting, decomposition, black, brecon beacons, poem, william peskett, from belfast to suffolk, journey, low house, land, factory workers, landscape, fields, map, poem, roy mcfadden, luna, personality, north england, woman, family, individual, belmont road, life, death, dance, poem, carol rumens, ars vendendum, the beauty of advertising, work, job, presentation, performance, art, just eve, money, shopping, beloginings, love, desire, dress, consumerlit, books, bookshop, shopping, ideas, packages, author, literature, marketing, materiality, consumer culture, poem, paul durcan, a present for peregrine, only child, family, parents, detachment, home, reginald’s tower, waterford, tights, gift, mundane, poem, jon stallworthy, pages from a missionary journal, the arrival at tahuata, 22 march 1834, boat, ship, travel, french polynesia, genesis, let there be light, god, beginning, foreign, strange, christianity, paradise, religion, the beginning, 16 april 1834, the word, atua, eating, mouth, the contest, 10 august 1834, native, culture, others, difference, colonialism, belief, myth, faith, religion, first man, god, creation, prayer, preaching, poem, tom matthews, mrs. groenwald, asbestos mine, marriage, foreign, bantu, natives, emigration, colonialism, poem, fleur adcock, dry eyes, crying, emotion, feelings, seventy-six, age, tears, literature, art, pain, writing, poem, peter porter, end of affair, relationship, break-up, sex, ending, writer, writing, poetry, love, garden, detachment, poem, peter porter, alcestis and the poet, service, greek mythology, love, devotion, death, art, stevie smith, relationship, fiction, john morrow, chamber music, school, english department, birthday, middle age, james joyce, robert graves, driving, journey, pub, half-way house, student, ph.d, army barracks, guns, poem, gavin ewart, romeo addresses his poperin pear, sex, penis, juliet, possession, relationships, erection, poem, gavin ewart, on seeing my daughter wearing my white cricket flannels of 1933 in 1978, clothing, clothes, time, sport, fashion, pretty, youth, poem, anthony cam, the robot, love, perfection, technology, poetry, poet, body, poem, craig raine, sexual couplets, sex, metaphor, phallus, phallic, copulation, genitals, flesh, arse, genitalia, poem, anthony conran, an buinnean bui - the yellow bittern, for sally three days before her wedding, gift, present, anticipation, poetry, occasion, poem, brendan kennelly, a great day, white, wedding, marriage, occasion, ritual, party, dress, clothing, blue, poem, james simmons, the honeymoon, summer, love, beauty, appearance, sex, lust, poem, john cassidy, legacy, fossil, remains, trace, landscape, aeroplane, past, poem, tom paulin, surveillances, prison camp, watchtowers, imprisonment, incarceration, society, culture, poem, tom paulin, in the egyptian gardens, history, culture, past, remains, sunday, sabbath, egypt, poem, ciaran carson, east of cairo, sarajasthan, french cambodia, searching, travel, journey, lhasa, dalai lama, exploring, explorer, poem, andrew waterman, harmonies of islington, aeroplane, plane, sky, moon, burgh street, urban, local, housing, place, london, buildings, city, street, poem, george buchanan, the conclave, women, weaving, female, poetry, religion, poem, patrick williams, for those unconcerned, care, charity, pity, school, monk, teacher, pupils, empathy, poem, robert johnstone, working with cauliflowers, vegetables, grocery, green grocer, food, retail, shop, shopping, cauliflower, vegetable, growth, poem, michael longley, arrest, police, crime, perversion, sex, nature, animals, tidying up, incarceration, institution, fiction, andrei platonov, translation, michael pursglove, yushka, russian, old man, age, smith, blacksmith, abuse, children, outsider, alienation, society, existentialism, violence, health, illness, love, death, charity, kindness, self-sacrifice, medicine, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, patrick kavanagh, the green fool, t. s. eliot, the great hunger, the streets of pompeii, why sorrow, by night unstarred, review, david montrose, the selected james simmons, edna longley, review, david montrose, o. c. light brigade, no fool like an old fool, gavin ewart, the first eleven, gavin ewart, or where a young penguin lies screaming, gavin ewart, review, james simmons, local and unique, the sinking of the kenbane head, sam mcaughtry,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Sommer, McGuickan, Jude the Obscure. Issue has a George Buchanan ‘Supplement’ featuring Buchanan, Simmons, Warner, McMahon, Ormsby. Reviews by Montrose, Simmons, Magee.
poem, piotr sommer, when, translation, hal stuart, steve sutton, polish, waiting, time, knowledge, thought, poem, piotr sommer, bare words, translation, charles w. mignon, polish, trees, words, tree, branches, trunk, leaves, timber, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, steve sutton, polish, inside the chair, invisible, movement, place, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, and so on, walking, stillness, walk, still, returning, poem, piotr sommer, translation, charles w. mignon, polish, from alma ata, travel, return, things, touch, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, rozewicz, reading, book, annotation, words, writing, study, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, home, mother, door, return, change, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, to theresa, typist, typing, texts, night, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, i am a notebook, for douglas, writing, notes, writer, footnotes, poem, poetry, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, first sentence, ustka, beach, writing, writer, stories, story, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, the best policy, literature, ambition, youth, learning, provincial, metropolitan, things pass away, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, between bus-stop and home, to pawel and helena, family, solitude, loneliness, alone, thought, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, a bit more effort please, work, translation, learning, education, job, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, match report, spain v. yugoslavia, viacheslav kuprianov, football, sports, distance, watching, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, it’s late, sleep, bed, family, home, night, dreams, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, troubles, wives, fight, domestic, disagreement, conflict, family, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, between two gestures, woman, mother, child, time, death, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, says the son, blood, mirror, leaving, family, parent, mother, chologoy, george buchanan, essay, james simmons, the poetry of george buchanan, essay, val warner, a shared present, george buchanan’s fiction, a london story, entanglement, the soldier and the girl, rose forbes, a place to live, naked reason, passage through the present, words for tonight, green seacoast, morning papers, conversation with strangers, inside traffic, essay, survey, arthur mcmahon, george buchanan’s journals, autobiography and essays, interview, george buchanan, frank ormsby, letters, journalism, present, theatre, bodily responses, poem, maeve mcguckian, after the weekend, home, house, destruction, cigarette, mess, poem, maeve mcguckian, the presence, wardrobe, clothing, clothes, fashion, belongings, poem, maeve mcguckian, shifting flats, moving, belongings, home, housing, change, furniture, poem, maeve mcguckian, the quilt, patchwork quilt, weather, change, colour, fading, fabric, textile, summer, time, autumn, poem, maeve mcguckian, cleaners, morning, sounds, listening, light, day, waking up, poem, maeve mcguckian, spring, sister, moon, night, february, cold, winter, window, vision, poem, maeve mcguckian, lent, snow, easter, weather, season, winter, spring, poem, maeve mcguckian, the accident, tea, teabag, damage, domestic, poem, maeve mcguckian, faith, snow, age, old, skin, dandruff, myth, belief, family, grandmother, poem, maeve mcguckian, family planning, domestic, home, homely, parents, children, generations, recipes, embroidery, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, farset and gomorrah, st martin de porres, chapter 12, london, swiss cottage, artist, clerk, work, money, chapter 13, painter, mixed-media, abstract, friendship, gin, irish, drinking, epilogue, 1969, law, review, david montrose, great hecht-pectations, anthony hecht, millions of strange shadows, review, james simmons, uneven stephens, james stephens, augustine martin, review, david montrose, geography: can do better, geography III, elizabeth bishop, review, wes magee, two anthologies, new poems, 1977/78, gavin ewart, new poetry 3, alan brownjohn, maureen duffy, review, david montrose, the lone ranger’s mask, vivian mercier, beckett/beckett,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Mahon, Pound, Carson, Platonov, Coyle, Terry, Cook, Daly, Lagan, Ewart, Stuckenburg, Jude the Obscure, Newson, Cover John Middleton.
translation, poem, derek mahon, after nerval, french, satire, mute phenomena, objects, things, god, animation, life, translation, poem, derek mahon, after eluard, french, name, write, writing, old, inscription, inscribe, word, world, life, translation, omar s. pound, poem, amir khusrow dehlavi, persian, 13th century, dreams, night, wine, pouring, vines, translation, ciaran carson, early irish, homeless, bed, comfort, cold, poverty, wind, rain, weather, death, homelessness, translation, ciaran carson, early irish, housed, home, house, light, god, garden, outdoors, nature, translation, ciaran carson, welsh, eaves, winter, rain, milk, sound, weather, ice, roof, shelter, poem, michael longley, a small hotel, mind, consciousness, picnic, thought, memory, poem, michael longley, boogie, louisiana delta, dance, dancing, music, jimmy yancey, fiction, andrey platonov, the seventh man, russian, translation, alexander pavlov, michael pursglove, poverty, survival, life, concentration camp, war, red army, death, partisan, minsk, soldiers, execution, guns, poem, michael coyle, first child, baby, infant, clothing, neighbours, poem, pere gimferrer, opus 98, translation, arthur terry, catalan, music, brahms, suffering, poetry, words, art, fact, destruction, emotion, feelings, poem, stanley cook, klee: landscape with yellow birds, ekphrasis, painting, art, paul klee, trees, grass, satan, composition, poem, stanley cook, geriatric wing, elderly, old, age, institution, poem, padraig j. daly, departure, leaving, clothing, appearance, dignity, fragility, fragile, poem, padraig j. daly, sagart ii, farm, enclosure, border, privacy, trenches, separation, peace, protection, defence, self, place, poem, padraig j. daly, socialist, youth, change, deviation, religion, prayer, tradition, socialism, justice, poem, cathal lagan, all my warm beginnings, abraham, faith, god, syllogism, belief, religion, comfort, obedience, obey, poem, cathal lagan, metamorphosis, franz kafka, open door, animals, god, farm, loss, waiting, relationship, break-up, poem, gavin ewart, the immense advantage, a cathedral courtship, kate douglas wiggin, english, british, england, new world, stephen spender, influence, colonialism, america, europe, global relations, american poets, poetry, whitman, ginsberg, creeley, sinsburg, culture, auden, mcclure, blakey, form, verse, zukovsky, dallas, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, the poor man’s youngest son, fairytale, dream, princess, swineherd, dragon, gardener, leaving, adventure, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, the dragon’s heart, dragon, women, princess, devil, slayer, slay, fairytale, hunchback, disability, egg, duck, heart, death, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, king, wood, forrest, fishing, elm, elm-crown, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, there was once an old woman, misery, misfortune, sadness, resilience, loneliness, happiness, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, myles na gopaleen, alcoholism, drinking, christian brothers, ucd, civil service, flann o’brien, brien o’nolan, myles na cgopaleen, the third policeman, at swim-two-birds, novelist, the hard life, literature, irish language, review, jude the obscure, you phonio saxo?, ross russell, bird lives, charlie parker, review, jude the obscure, winslow homer is as good as paul cezanne, winslow homer, john wimerding, poem, peter newson, folk museum, sadness, ploughshares, past, history,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Dunn, Kelly, Sheerin, Percy, McCarthy, Deane, McAuley, Kieran, Markam, Gurney, Wiljer, Prorok, June the Obscure: Cover by Geraldine Sweeney featuring: Anthony Weir, John Hewitt, Padraic Fiacc, , Ciaran Carson, John Morrow, James Simmons. Note: Blank Pages were part of the issue.
poem, douglas dunn, seen in the street, tory, britain, british, politics, poem, douglas dunn, new nature poetry, pastoral, poet, pantheist, folk, shepherds, romanticism, pretence, poem, douglas dunn, the poetry of perception, france, amends, reflection, thought, vision, watching, morning, poem, translation, skythinos, xii, 22, michael kelly, from the greek anthology, love, desire, lust, honey, looking, frustration, poem, translation, palladas, x, 45, michael kelly, from the greek anthology, pride, sex, bodies, incontinence, life, poem, joe sheerin, settling in, neighbourhood, unease, welcome, home, house, place, poem, joe sheerin, the lemon, love letter, invisible ink, secret, private, communication, poem, joe sheerin, burying a baby, death, infant, funeral, burial, coffin, cremation, loss, poem, margaret percy, testament, death, god, religion, suicide, loss, poem, thomas mccarthy, the builder of statues, from pablo neruda, faces, face, work, craft, art, sculpture, flesh, death, clay, poem, thomas mccarthy, rarest thyme, herbs, garden, herb, olitory, growth, basil, rosemary, lavender, loss, memorial, illness, poem, john f. deane, love : poem, love poem, wood, forest, ash tree, sex, conception, pregnancy, nature, poem, james j. mcauley, take up thy bed, childhood, father, plague, body, sensation, illness, sickness, death, lares, baths, recovery, pain, poem, martin kieran, moonlight, autumn, sensation, scent, moon, night, relationship, marriage, death, sadness, depression, poem, e. a. markham, next in line, bishop, emigration, national health, britain, foreign, community relations, society, change, poem, john gurney, the blind dog, rilke, sonette an orpheus, sight, blindness, pet, animal, empathy, loss, sadness, pity, pathos, pain, poem, robert wiljer, the fat girl does her dance, collingwood, blue room, leisure, beer, drinking, dancing, bar, lust, body, bodies, strip tease, nudity, nakedness, stripper, drama, leszek prorok, translation, marcus wheeler, polish, the slim voice, rowing, boat, canoe, accident, blind, blindness, disability, mines, minefield, injury, dreaming, dreams, vision, sight, romance, MISSING PAGES 38, 39, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, john garvin, james joyce, myles na gcopaleen, gopaleen, MISSING PAGES 58, 59, review, edna longley, review, t. bartlett, getting close to parnell, charles stewart parnell, f. s. l. lyons, charles stewart parnell, the man and his family, r. f. foster, review, james simmons, the uses of adversity, poisoned lands, john montague, review, margaret ward, not the complete maud, maud gonne, samuel levenson, review, bruce bidwell, daily bread, time enough, john hewitt, review, bruce bidwell, in search of the splintered couplets, rhyming weavers, john hewitt, review, alastair minnis, deliberate delinquency, a hole in the head, francis stewart, review, david montrose, richard the rhymer, the mind reader, richard wilbur, review, david montrose, decline and fall, 45 mercy street, anne sexton,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Freeman, Glendenning, Ewart, Ireland, Phillips, Cooke, Foley, Parfitt, Lavery, Morrow, Kinghan, Rumens, Raine, McMahon, Lewis, Hendry, von Horvath, Cassidy, Carson, Simmons, Ormsby, Jude the Obscure, Cover by JAMM.
poem, richard freeman, point to point, journey, camp, canterbury, details, sweets, insects, sensation, beer tent, drinking, jag, ladybird, poem, richard freeman, the egg trick, game, spectacle, yolk, sound, breaking eggs, nature, poem, robin glendinning, watching cricket, family, marriage, relationship, annoyance, television, poem, gavin ewart, kipling’s imperialism and ours, the light that failed, trade, empire, africa, sudan, war, history, poem, gavin ewart, the believers, women, bodies, breasts, buttocks, pleasure, holy, sex, love, god, poem, gavin ewart, the “o” level complaint, poetry, poets, studying, school, literature, cannon, enemies, understanding, eliot, hughes, plath, larkin, yeats, smith, graves, auden, thomas, betjeman, cicero, exam, poem, gavin ewart, seasonal double haikus: the mating season, sex, smoking, youth, girls jewish, cunts, tongues, oral sex, poem, g. w. ireland, a valediction forbidding mourning, love, loss, relationships, learning, life, poem, g. w. ireland, light?, oral, lips, touch, cigarettes, smoking, touch, loss, need, want, relationship, poem, tom phillips, suburbans, birds, perspective, humans, suburbs, suburbia, landscape, poem, david cooke, cows, friesians, shorthorns, angus, cattle, distance, fields, milking, animals, muck, poem, michael foley, adaptations from rimbaud, my bohemian life, muse, poetry, writing, september, the great bear, the green man, food, ham, eating, lust, sex, parochial house, cold sore, health, poem, michael foley, poor people in church, class, poverty, society, religion, mass, bishop, poem, george parfitt, brick-gatherer, bricks, derelict, wasteland, collecting, stones, poem, leo lavery, mapgie, magpie, bird, sound, flight, clatter, fiction, john morrow, from the confessions of proinsias o’toole, chapel fields, protestant, catholic, bin lids, poem, michael kinghan, pangur bawn, glass, relationship, waiting, loss, searching, old flame, desire, seeking, summoning, supernatural, parnassus, magic, winter, poem, michael kinghan, where are the modern medicis?, patronage, funding, arts, money, work, arts council, writing, tony o’reilly, pat quinn, poetry, poem, michael kinghan, i liked it better when we were poor, money, weath, poverty, companionship, relationship, sharing, intimacy, value, poem, michael kinghan, life on mars, walk, walking, glen, nature, tree, belfast lough, death, belfast, city, supremo, industry, bbc. b. b. c., poem, carol rumens, denunciation, maria goretti, saint, canonisation, women, nun, injury, martyrdom, poppy, violence, blood, bleeding, school, education, religion, catholicism, poem, carol rumens, unplayed music, crowd, drinking, party, piano, intimacy, cold, ice, snow, heart, love, desire, connection, atmosphere, night, poem, craig raine, happy birthday to you, nurse, hospital, age, elderly, veteran, imperial guard, mundane, food, body, illness, flesh, exposure, life, poem, craig raine, demolition with tobacco speck, james joyce, ulysses, deconstruction, death, dead, bricks, bulldozers, building site, poem, diana hendry, the rose and crown, hotel, inn, bed and breakfast, decoration, hospitality, poem, diana hendry, the state of affairs, adultery, relationships, marriage, love, lovers, motherhood, rembrandt, home, fear, poem, trevor mcmahon, renovations, house, home, interior, skin, body, monument, apples, dalmations, ending, poem, trevor mcmahon, mountaineers, weather, igloo, survival, travel, mountain, hike, nature, goat, poem, pamela lewis, to my daughter, threshold, change, leaving, loss, childhood, motherhood, growing up, poem, pamela lewis, to my son, growing up, boyhood, lighthouse, sea, parenthood, parenting, drama, odon von horvath, sladek the black militia man, an episode from the era of inflation, introduction, translation, victor price, germany, german, play, nazis, heil, war, jewish, jews, politics, pacifism, pacifist, fatherland, nationalism, soldiers, military, versailles, deutschland, europe, love, violence, murder, betrayal, revolution, humanity, poem, john cassidy, the reassurance, nature, pond, water, sky, image, still, stillness, fish, watching, movement, organisms, animals, perception, doubling, poem, john cassidy, contacts, failure, dark, night, owls, wood, forest, loss, searching, witch, tree, poem, ciaran carson, the patchwork quilt, family, fabric, textiles, home, craft, making, motherhood, memory, remnants, pattern, sewing, stitch, poem, ciaran carson, africa, mosquito net, fan, foreign, suffering, night, waiting, crusades, poem, ciaran carson, visitors, family, guests, visiting, bread and butter, eating, food, smell, home, sensation, childhood, photographs, poem, james simmons, at the post office, school, campbell college, aesthete, poet, money, love, derry, break-up, relationship, adulthood, change, poem, james simmons, the second time around, break-up, solitude, sex, curiosity, middle age, aging, poem, frank ormsby, the house by night, light, dusk, darkness, shadows, windows, poem, frank ormsby, where she lives, house, home, rooms, place, furniture, normality, poem, frank ormsby, a small town in ireland, place, past, touch, history, personal, poem, frank ormsby, love on the coast, kelly’s cove, desire, love, intimacy, darkness, bed, beach, sand, poem, frank ormsby, aftermath, emptiness, bare, empty, loss, blood, death, comfort, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, felicien rops, felix vallotton, jesuit, baudelaire, paris, illustration, art, review, george buchanan, an irish pastoral, peter waring, forrest reid, review, lorna reynolds, swift re-visited, jonathan swift, gulliver’s travels, ed, colin mckelvie, james miller, review, michael allen, horse-people and others, mules, paul muldoon, review, george buchanan, going back a little, verifications, roy mcfadden, review, john constable, a note on nostalgia, from the other country, andrew waterman,
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poem, john cassidy, fires, moor fire, destruction, orange, watching, smoke, gorse, heather, barn fire, emergency, red, flame, firemen, ruin, danger, rural, city fire, urban, house, water, spectacle, element, poem, john cassidy, the hate-plant, plant, growth, garden, germination, autumn, care, nurture, evening, leisure, hate, work, poem, john cassidy, summer, season, blue sky, heat, warmth, neighbours, poem, robert wijer, the beer garden, drinking, wine, dionysius, passion, freedom, poem, kate allen, the snow queen, kay, cold, ice, spitzbergen, power, perversion, eternity, gerda, spring, flow, river, time, snow, poem, vernon scannell, dylan thomas country, place, rural, seasons, summer, winder, weather, spring, autumn, joy, pleasure, dance, nature, poem, vernon scannell, villanelle: of love and music, language, expression, communication, affection, romance, words, poem, andrew motion, no news from the old country, vermont, past, memory, place, wilderness, usa, america, distance, england, poem, andrew motion, wistman’s wood, dartmoor, granite, stones, trees, rural, city, nature, nothing, stillness, stone, boulder, poem, wes magee, biography of the skull, body, head, damage, injury, growing up, heads, war, soldiers, golgotha, calvary, life, death, burial ground, poem, wes magee, visiting a remote valley, travel, hiking, hike, mountains, landscape, anguish, sound, pain, poem, simon curtis, sports extra, pints, bar, drinking, sport, squash, club, conversation, games, poem, simon curtis, joe and rory, people, individuals, difference, poem, paul muldoon, the bearded woman, by ribera, fairground, gender, beard, masculinity, femininity, mother, holy family, poem, paul muldoon, the merman, water, sea, shoreline, farming, farm, waves, ownership, poem, paul muldoon, cuba, family, war, adolescence, confession, sister, cold war, sin, poem, translation, antonio machado, spanish, terence mcmullan, sun-drenched seville, hose, family, father, past, time, aging, age, poem, seamus deane, epiphany, church, mass, religion, catholicism, war, air-raid, shelter, religion, poem, seamus deane, the victim, for brian friel, language, change, place, foreign, native, conflict, violence, poem, seamus deane, a distant beach, childhood, manhood, ocean, sea, august, past, night, city, age, time, poem, seamus deane, decision, go away, leaving, waiting, whiskey, wait, going, poem, brendan kennelly, we are living, room, past, history, life, relationship, bodies, home, space, place, poem, brendan kennelly, a man in smoke remembered, memory, death, friend, friendship, age, aging, old, winter, dead, poem, piotr sommer, recently, translation, charles w. mignon, polish, relationship, drawing, sketching, portrait, poem, michael longley, oliver plunkett, his soul, head, execution, beheading, hair, body, his head, thinking, thought, brain, coffin, his body, saint, deterioration, archbishop of armagh, remains, corpse, poem, michael longley, elegy, january 1976, teeth, christ, father, dentures, false teeth, death, massacre, burial, poem, michael longley, ishi, mourning, survivor, survival, dialect, poem, john wilkes, february, bringing, taking, sensation, experience, spring, poem, john wilkes, happy love, laughter, laughing, romance, delight, sadness, emotion, poem, john wilkes, sleeping alone, mourning, solitude, night, dark, poem, john wilkes, the woodcutter’s daughter, trees, clearing, space, solitude, emptiness, poem, federico garcia lorca, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, the street of the dumb, girls, game, lovers, communication, poem, d. j. enright, from paradise illustrated, books, adam and eve, arts, milton, god, satan, paradise lost, fallen, hero, archangel, poem, victor price, yarrow, garden, plants, growth, flower, poem, padraic fiacc, saint coleman’s song for flight, for nancy and brigid, flown, death, fear, dead, plague, escape, bible, joseph, christ, poem, padraic fiacc, intimate letter 1973, deterioration, belfast, ruin, city, destruction, violence, conflict, bombs, family, poem, padraic fiacc, shadow, love, henry and mairead, childhood, waiting, restoration, grass, nights in the bad place, poem, des mcaleer, migrants and homers, birds, pigeons, swifts, departure, staying, home, poem, des mcaleer, the ferry, travel, transport, boat, journey, poem, craig raine, the ice cream man, the expression of the emotions in man & animals, charles darwin, childhood, food, eating, sensation, savage, procession, desire, taste, poem, roy mcfadden, the eiffel tower, tourism, landmark, architecture, paris, death of god, poem, roy mcfadden, the ards circuit, dog, wheels, life, death, word, vehicle, pet, poem, roy mcfadden, jean armstrong, scouts, childhood, touch, sensation, relationship, embarrassment, poem, roy mcfadden, from quail holdings, mary quail, family tree, genealogy, relations, individual, poem, roy mcfadden, stringer’s field, middle-age, aging, memory, boyhood, childhood, summer, neighbourhood, kerb, return, verifications, poem, francis harvey, the botany of love, lover, relationship, control, leaf, ladybirds, red, plants, nature, poem, francis harvey, the last drover, work, night, animals, rural, remains, legacy, loss, poem, francis harvey, more information for tourists, sea, shore, stone, wreck, corpse, death, bone, trauma, poem, hugh maxton, landscape with minute wildflowers, train, rail, railway, journey, nature, mussenden, sea, poem, ewart milne, his burden, erotic, sex, love, desire, solitude, alone, loss, king david, poem, ewart milne, yellow peril, gorse, injury, accident, plant, personification, violence, poem, ian gregson, the sick room, illness, father, whiteness, deterioration, erosion, colour, poem, ian gregson, crab lane village from new flats, manchester, whitsuntide, council estate, wars, past, fiction john morrow, chinese knackers, the bard, holy land, belfast, porterhouse blue, hangover, countess markievicz, fiction, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, farset and gomorrah, psychiatrist, old boys association, drinking, alcohol, friendship, prostitutes, sex, sti, sexual health, review, victor price, a knock on the head, tales from the vienna woods, odon von horvath, translation, christopher hampton, interview, anthony weir, frank ormsby, translation is like the wrong side of an oriental carpet, tolstoi, tide and undertown, a book of translations, review, colin mckelvie, irishmen with a difference, the anglo-irish tradition, j. c. beckett, review, robert chapman, telling the emperor, judy garland and the cold war, james simmons, review, robert johnstone, the mind is better than the thing itself, a state of justice, tom paulin, review, judith hutchinson, frozen presents, night in tunisia and other stories, neil jordan, review, judith hutchinson, heartlands, a view from calvary and other stories, patrick boyle, review, james simmons, recent novels, the doctor’s wife, brian moore, the children of dynmouth, william trevor, the honorary consul, graham green, review, james simmons, jim, nora, stan, harriet and others, selecter letters of james joyce, ed. richard ellmann,
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poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, strato, XII, 216, sex, penis, erection, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, skythinos, XII, 22, love, desire, lust, misery, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, strato, XII, 227, beauty, lust, distraction, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, markos argentarios, v, 105, desire, bliss, heaven, taste, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, markos argentarios, ix, 554, heraclea, cocks, sex, oral sex, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, theokritos, ix, 599, anakreon, statue, memorial, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, markos argentarios, vii, 403, pimp, orgy, prostitutes, sex, chastity, grave, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, x, 116, marriage, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, xi, 414, destruction, hedony, pleasure, sex, win, gout, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, ascelpiades or poseidippos, v, 202, delphine, brothel, sex, prostitution, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, v, 200, priapus, lust, sex, nakedness, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, v, 201, goddess of love, dawn, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, rufinos, v, 94, goddess, body, appearance, beauty, love, admiration, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, v, 82, quickie, foreplay, sex, poem, michael draper, passion shows, clothing, song, singing, life, white, black, red, colour, green, visions, poem, michael draper, mr earthbound’s saturday night service, someone who abides, evening, god, religion, sex, desire, abide with me, poem, john wilkes, fragment, longing, love, separation, wholeness, poem, tony flynn, town, stone, death, brother, life, funeral, childhood, infant, baptism, children, poem, tony flynn, citizens, society, city, song, singing, poem, tony flynn, schiele in prison, egon schiele, artist, imprisonment, incarceration, light, mirror, beauty, snail, separation, distance, birds, painter, poem, duncan forbes, national anthem, vietcong, america, usa, society, fashion, morality, united nations, deterioration, poem, paul muldoon, lord hawhaw, war, wife, english, marriage, munitions, haw-haw, william joyce, world war 2, nazi propaganda, radio, broadcasting, germany, poem, william scammell, ballad of social mobility, 1939, comfort, home, love, work, travel, experience, sixties london, society, poem, jem poster, september: wasps, insects, death, bodies, dirt, poem, alan peacock, stone gods, rock, history, past, geological, geology, fjord, magheraroarty strand, borrowdale, water, liquid, memory, relationship, poem, ciaran carson, smithfield, books, remembering, memory, undertaker, communion, church, loss, childhood, poem, tess gallagher, disappearances in the guarded sector, childhood, past, conflict, dream, return, remembering, memory, poem, tess gallagher, ever after, death, hair, memory, rain, alive, living, poem, michael stephens, two trees, apple blossom, appearance, beauty, ugliness, couple, poem, robert wiljer, the ferris wheel, movement, sensation, thrills, excitement, fair, fairground, fear, poem, michael braidwood, snow pages, white, meat, hunting, hunter, meat, cold, ice, fiction, john morrow, walk tall if you dare, height, growth, belfast, shankill, police, work, linen, ian paisley, troubles, bomb, poem, kate allen, vacuum cleaner, sound, scrap, dirt, cleaning, noise, non-fiction, george buchanan, the umbra, pages from an unpublished autobiography, the times, work, news, editing, writing, novel, poetry, london, diary, the spanish holiday, broadcasting, a. e., george russell, mysticism, journalism, mairaux, germany, 1937, drama critic, criticism, europe, news chronicle, war, gabo, constructivist, 1940, the soldier and the girl, poem, seamus heaney, september song, autumn, nature, rain, ending, john field, nocturnes, raindrops, music, change, poem, tom paulin, a september rising, beech, leaves, trees, morning, autumn, soldiers, names, memory, spirit, sky, poem, tom paulin, inishkeel parish church, sunday, congregation, o absalom, lessons, religion, sea, relief, learning, poem, tom paulin, a just state, law, control, justice, institution, public, society, a state of justice, poem, tom matthews, side-show, niagara, waterfall, falls, tourism, christ, nature, honeymoon, wilderness, twelfth night, stratford ontario, shakespeare, country, north america, tourist, camp poundmaker, erewhon, native american, chief, weeping, sadness, deserters, deseronto, canada, immigrants, politics, apolitical, conversation, trinkets/brantford, indian, native american, gift shop, holiday, serpent mounds/ rice lake, indian, native american, death, past, exhibition, exhibit, tourism, igopogo/ lake simcoe, monster, local, folklore, visiting, visitors, PS, photographs, camera, stoney rapids, travel, whalemeat, relief, whale meat, coast, inland, poem, andrew waterman, stepping westward, donegal, wordsworth, creeslough, west, ireland, muckish, landscape, errigal, poisoned glen, ruins, wilderness, nature, stone, mountains, poem, andrew waterman, hiatus, pause, water, sea, departure, leaving, shore, travel, poem, andrew waterman, intimation, death, family, childhood, garden, time, from the other country, poem, patrick king, mother, death, mourning, sadness, loss, childhood, dark, song, ending, poem, patrick king, central mental hospital, building, enclosure, illness, mental health, poem, patrick king, installations, night, runway, cove, coast, island, poem, pamela lewis, kenwood, house, building, moving in, head, personification, poem, pamela lewis, stocktaking, rural, nature, urban, illness, ill, winter, animals, squirrels, owls, adapting, learning, solitude, belonging, fiction, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, ulster, northern ireland, heritage, farset and gomorrah, fathers, church, mass, catholic, protestant, sex, psychiatrist, review, maurice watts, beyond the microscope, the nightowl’s dissection, william peskett, review, anthony weir, transpoet of delight, rites of passage, edwin morgan,
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poem, carol rumens, commuter poems, 1, train, travel, time journey, work, winter, 2, landscape, window, railway, book, reading, place, 3, ireland, poem, carol rumens, aubade for middle age, sex, love, gatwick, domestic, womb, trauma, home, habit, lust, poem, carol rumens, in a room, princess, kingdom, woman, enclosure, poem, carol rumens, the great silkie of sule skerrie, orkadian ballad, sea, shore, cliff, sand, wandering, sadness, poem, carol rumens, sylvia plath: a dramatic monologue, atlantis, patriarch, sensation, emotion, earth, tigers, marriage, words, fiction, john morrow, o’fuzz, work, van, armpit, corpse, police barracks, death, poem, francis harvey, at ards, pheasants, nature, sensation, bluebells, chestnuts, love, poem, tom paulin, provincial narratives, mother, father, arum lilies, aunt, white, family, mirror, reflection, self, poem, tom paulin, fin de siecle, landscape, lake, garden, love, desire, kiss, purity, poem, tom paulin, on the other side, moth people, dockside, port, harbour, coast, edge, boats, messages, poem, knute skinner, two sentences, father, mother, relationships, poem, val warner, officials, names, rackman, mother hubbard, pariahs, place, poem, val warner, sing cuccu!, summer, midsummer, st john’s eve, beginning, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, luis cernuda, let me keep this voice, pampa, moonlight, speech, drowning, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, federico garcia lorca, spinster at mass, incense, church, religion, black, woman, virginia, fiction, francis stuart, extract from a novel in progress, drive, journey, car, four seasons hotel, a. d. p. belbury, abortion, bar, food, eating, poem, jason sommer, in single beds, for bernadine, bed, intimacy, relationship, love, dreams, sharing, touch, night, sleep, poem, jason sommer, dear s., new york, vermont, separation, distance, letter, relationship, death, poem, jason sommer, evidences of departure, pockets, buttons, clothing, time, leaving, loss, winter, poem, jason sommer, coal, fire, home, hearth, fuel, family, night, cold, winter, poem, george parfitt, litany, teacher, teaching, school, fear, anxiety, poem, george parfitt, incident, london, coach, travel, transport, bus, touch, bodies, caress, stranger, encounter, poem, malcolm carson, bus-stop in piazza san lorenzo, florence, rome, church, building, italy, san lorenzo, architecture, fiction, michael foley, the home-town bust, 1969, march, police, streets, violence, conflict, hanging, punishment, incarceration, writer, writing, fiction, fred johnston, george, killing, slaughter, slaughterer, the ship bar, drinking, trotting, race, horses, horses, guilt, drunk, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, jazz, impressionism, debussy, music, duke ellington, louis armstrong, luis russell, melody, billie holiday, coleman hawkins, whitney balliett, review, john cronin, sean o’faolain, foreign affairs and other stories, review, james simmons, the credible dancing montague, a slow dance, john montague, review, james simmons, gentle mysteries, man lying on a wall, michael longley, review, james simmons, good man, richard, high island, richard murphy, review, james simmons, recent reading, francis stuart, redemption,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Foley, Kelly, McLaughlin, Smith, Young, Stephens, Matthews, Morrow, Paulin, O’Callaghan, O’Driscoll, Percy, St. Vincent, McAleer, Wiljer, Denman, Smyth, Platinov, Mahon, Montague, Muldoon, Ewart, Dugdale, Hobsbaum, Longley, Packenham, Simmons, Terry, Heaney, Jude the Obscure, Price, Cover by Jamm, Drawings by O’Sullivan.
drawing, d. j. o’sullivan, poem, translation, michael foley, adaptations from laforgue, preface, literature, parents, growing up, writer, poetry, philosophy, poem, translation, michael foley, laforgue, convalescence in may, sickness, mother, parents, sick room, comfort, home, relationship, woman, sex, poem, translation, michael foley, laforgue, winter coming, season, weather, rain, leisure, wind, change, sadness, autumn, year, time, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, v. 3. original by antipater of thessalonica, morning, waking, lovers, bed, cock, v. 5. original by statyllius flaccus, light, lamp, lampstead, present, gift, night, poem, tom mclaughlin, faces, family, appearance, death, loss, father, granny, poem, tom mclaughlin, young-man, work, youth, ambition, poem, tom mclaughlin, long grass, relaxation, sun, summer, solitude, stillness, laying, rest, poem, tom mclaughlin, sick-bed, eamonn andrews, sickness, sick, bed, illness, aeroplane, sensation, attention, senses, poem, w. j. smith, letter to devon, friendship, christmas, greetings, correspondence, weather, place, distance, ice, cold, winter, seasons, summer, solitude, sid, poem, augustus young, old woman of beare, actress, old, maid, aging, change, performance, body, theatre, poem, michael stephens, the guns of navarone, childhood, cinema, flicks, film, memory, poem, tom matthews, witness, god, satan, religion, dyspepsia, death, burial, faith, fiction, john morrow, sects, belfast, city, library, gaelic, music, sectarianism, europa hotel, sex, qualified war poet, poem, tom paulin, an authorised fear, money, safety, guilt, love, relationships, mourning, grief, people, strangers, empathy, emotions, poem, tom paulin, matter, work, love, home, evening, poem, juliet o’callaghan, pregnant, pregnancy, family, grandmother, house, garden, sleep, awake, poem, margaret percy, the spoon in my mouth, kitchen, domestic, twin, brother, seeking, love, dying, memory, loss, poem, ciaran o’driscoll, a vigil, death, post-mortem, stars, sky, cosmos, sadness, loss, oblivion, poem, paul st. vincent, maureen’s turn, growth, change, desire, waiting, responsibility, poem, paul st. vincent, philpot puzzled, relationship, marriage, affair, change, confusion, poem, paul st. vincent, queuing, people, friend, stranger, waiting, poem, desmond mcaleer, avenue trees, nature, tree surgeon, suburbs, suburbia, growth, poem, robert wiljer, the clown, clowning, performance, circus, show, bravo, bravissimo, comedy, laughter, poem, peter denman, therapy in kerry, sex, bard, performance, poker, rod, penis, phallus, poem, peter denman, fort, place, building, defence, protection, coast, safety, poem, gerard smyth, disease, violence, men, masculinity, society, unemployment, friday, work, disasters, newsreel, news, retreat, escape, poem, gerard smyth, something to eat, food, eating, dining, fiction, translation, andrey platonov, michael pursglove, russian, ivan the great, army, germans, battle, war, russians, infantry, the red army, nazis, horse, horses, animals, suffering, death, care, empathy, poem, derek mahon, from light music, 6, please, isolation, forest, connection, 7, walking the boy, old photographs, 9, aesthetics, landing light, 10, mozart, music, art, planets, sound, 12, timber, wood, tree, saw, spirit, 16, spring, woods, dawn, birds, nymphs, light, 18, byzantium, flames, fire, dead star, poem, john montague, a drink of milk, milking, cattle, farm, farmer, home, night, poem, john montague, above the pool, donegal, desire, atlantic, place, stairs, swimming pool, bathing, sea, solitude, loneliness, connection, summer, water, poem, paul muldoon, uncle pat, family, car, vehicle, model t ford, veteran, past, death, relationship, home, place, poem, gavin ewart, the legend, band, spunky sandwich, ladybirds, our lady, lamb of god, spirituality, blessing, memory, miracles, faith, miracle, poem, gavin ewart, how tragedy is impossible, words, expression, language, dumb, communication, emotion, love, comedy, comic, feature, the belfast group: a symposium, queen’s university, poets, writers, writing, philip hobsbaum, norman dugdale, michael longley, the group, jack pakenham, seamus heaney, stewart parker, james simmons, arthur terry, derek mahon, essay, the hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, anthony cronin, dead as doornails, humour, comedy, the life of riley, the trumpet, homosexuality, essay, victor price, richard rowley - 100, castlewellan, slieve-na-man, belfast, poet, city of refuge, city songs and others, workers, county down songs, tales of mourne, review, judith hutchinson, more than a classic, the road to the shore & other stories, michael mclaverty,
Winter 75 Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Parker, Price Turner, Simmons, Ewart, Foley, Stephens, McLaughlin, Forbes, Middleton, Smith, Flintoff, Mac Caig, Young, Platinov, Stevenson, Cernuda, Holden, Motion, Adcock, Hughes, Cook, Abse, Kelly, O’Sullivan, Day, Dunn, Waterman, Clifton, Garfitt, Thomas, Peacock. Scupham, Morrow, McLaverty, Fiacc, Buchannan, Hewitt, Montague, Squires, Loneley, Dugdale, Brophy, Williams, Wilkin, Paulin, Muldoon, Carson, McMahon, Peskett, Ormsby, Mahon, Jude the Obscure. Cover by John Middleton.
Contributors: Parker, Price Turner, Simmons, Ewart, Foley, Stephens, McLaughlin, Forbes, Middleton, Smith, Flintoff, Mac Caig, Young, Platinov, Stevenson, Cernuda, Holden, Motion, Adcock, Hughes, Cook, Abse, Kelly, O’Sullivan, Day, Dunn, Waterman, Clifton, Garfitt, Thomas, Peacock. Scupham, Morrow, McLaverty, Fiacc, Buchannan, Hewitt, Montague, Squires, Loneley, Dugdale, Brophy, Williams, Wilkin, Paulin, Muldoon, Carson, McMahon, Peskett, Ormsby, Mahon, Jude the Obscure. Cover by John Middleton.
drama, stewart parker, the iceberg, lifeboat, sea, boat, ocean, southampton, ship, titanic, travel, sinking, disaster, the white star line, class, poem, w. price turner, beauty and the beasts, university, professor, academics, gender, appearance, men, women, poem, w. price turner, a prune names wittgenstein, food, eating, constipation, identity, philosophy, logic, philosophers, poem, w. price turner, sleeping beauty, sleep, desire, lust, sex, poem, w. price turner, topical interview, refugee, greece, freedom, travel, poem, james simmons, john donne, writing, writer, author, poet, verse, sex, piety, religion, poem, james simmons, drunken emily, poetry, alcohol, drinking, poet, verse, poem, james simmons, like john clare, success, failure, writer, poet, lyric, career, poem, james simmons, nativity, milton, birth, god, prometheus, class, snow, poem, gavin ewart, on the tercentenary of milton’s death, john milton, poet, author, writer, literature, grandeur, writing, literature, poem, gavin ewart, instructions to a bored dilettant, writing, poetry, imagination, writer, inspiration, poem, michael foley, me and my funky sidemen, big scuffle, music, jazz, blues, big band, poem, michael foley, the pickle song, aging, age, hollows and doldrums, sex, pickle your nuts, poem, michael foley, greek males, andy’s take-away kebab house, kentish town, london, men, masculinity, aging, poem, michael foley, the river of no return, humour, anecdote, time, aging, fear, poem, michael foley, there’s no london art…, gallery, art, legacy, knowledge, johnny hodges, poem, michael foley, i remember adlestrop, edward thomas, poetry, vagueness, bad poetry, poem, michael stephens, don juan’s last stand, virgin, virginity, sex, lust, desire, love, don juan, poem, michael stephens, tales told by an idiot, jesus, disciples, cigarette, bar, pints, lord, religion, satire, poem, tom mclaughlin, spring heat in st pauls, for john murray, teaching, teacher, children, school, poem, tom mclaughlin, the writing on the classroom wall, school, life, time, growth, aging, pupils, poem, tom mclaughlin, come soon, friendship, friends, leisure, saturday, drinking, home, poem, tom mclaughlin, this was a night, drinking, women, desire, lust, drunkenness, night out, poem, tom mclaughlin, the old jokes are the best, friends, friendship, loneliness, poem, tom mclaughlin, lying awake, marriage, relationship, fight, conflict, tension, ice, sleep, anger, poem, duncan forbes, greetings, solitude, isolation, recluse, seclusion, poem, duncan forbes, internal memo, correspondence, letters, stock responses, replying, communication, poem, duncan forbes, first-born, baby, foetus, pregnancy, womb, birth, parenthood, poem, kate middleton, spinster sister, age, cooking, reproduction, female, woman, flavour, sensation, fertility, poem, iain crichton smith, flowers, primroses, creation, god, daisies, doodling, design, roses, poem, iain crichton smith, from this window, landscape, view, hills, snow, summer, valley, poem, iain crichton smith, don quixote, adventure, knight, blue morning, poem, everard flintoff, the london sales, shopping, humour, selfridges, d. h. evans, word play, poem, norman maccaig, small lochs, obsessions, loch ness, loch lomond, loch shin, loch tay, dog loch, loch na barrack, landscape, water, lock of the corrie of the green waterfalls, poem, norman maccaig, incident, lairig, cairngorms, ants, insects, scotland, poem, august young, to a friend, false teeth, tooth, body, bodies, mouth, affection, fiction, andrey platonov, takyr, translation, michael pursglove, russian, firyuza, kopet-dag, kurds, conflict, horsemen, iran, turkey, border, war, prisoner, women, sex, abuse, wives, home, foreign, place, travel, captivity, captive, imprisonment, slavery, illness, childhood, nomads, nomadism, death, grief, poem, anne stevenson, the mudtower, estuary, new year, swans, winter, sea, water, nature, landscape, mud, tower, seabirds, birds, poem, anne stevenson, ars amatoria, ovid, the art of love, dundonian, sex, love, relationship, poem, anne stevenson, song without music, tenement, housing, occupation, home, ruin, buildings, city, poem, terence mcmullan, misfortune, luis cernuda, spanish, cloud, fortune, words, poem, molly holden, where the dream came from, dreaming, landscape, memory, rooms, space, miner bees, poem, molly holden, stopping places, car, journey, vehicle, travel, village, holiday, children, childhood, site-seeing, poem, molly holden, six out of seven, garden, bush, plant, summer, survival, poem, andrew motion, away, house, loss, emptiness, ruin, past, distance, memory, poem, andrew motion, the avenue, trees, stumps, silence, nature, loss, timber, footprints, poem, fleur adcock, river, niger, mungo park, thames, wanganui, clutha, water, rivers, poet, explorer, travel, poem, glyn hughes, the acropolis, athens, greece, art, architecture, heat, poem, glyn hughes, penelope on the islands, deportment, waiting, fiance, poem, glyn hughes, at a monastry on siphnos, monastery, numinous, sifnos, greece, peasant, building, poem, stanley cook, life in a yard, garden, outdoors, neighbours, home, pets, poem, stanley cook, the canals, water, nature, river, reflections, mirror, vision, poem, dannie abse, proof, for stewart evans, photography, camera, photograph, wedding, time, memory, poem, michael kelly, african haiku, africa, egrets pawpaws, animals, landscape, image, sound, poem, d. j. o’sullivan, the hearing-aid, listening, hear, sound, chickens, birds, song, poem, d. j. o’sullivan, mistaken identity, ring ouzel, mistle thrush, thrush, cock, birds, eggs, poem, david day, in the chancy spring, nature, birds, swallow, animals, creatures, season, rural, poem, douglas dunn, going home, journey, return, road, traffic, bradford, travel, returning, poem, andrew waterman, the pattern, kenningham, camberwell, lewisham, strand, london, urban, city, brighton, beach, south bank, traffic, euston, travel, relationship, place, tooley street, shad thames, liverpool street, poem, harry clifton, carnival sickness, spectacle, night, sensation, colour, holding hands, yellow, poem, harry clifton, picaro, night, character, adventure, fiction, fictions, author, poem, harry clifton, metempsychosis, death, soul, hospital, spirit, dog, poem, roger garfitt, homage to james k. baxter, night, morning, mars, old holborn, friendship, men, road, social security, lethe, poem, r. s. thomas, wanting out, dante, virgil, body, dead, ghosts, spirit, descent, poem, alan peacock, shetland re-visited, revisit, muckle ossa, dore holm, scotland, sea, island, landscape, cave, rock, hamnavoe, easterwick, ronas hill, shore, boat, navir, poem, peter scupham, pompeii: plaster casts, pliny, italy, misenum, rome, classical world, landscape, architecture, body, death, bone, ghost, fiction, john morrow, the revenge of tarbrush higgins, 1939, war, war office, sheik, uncle, belfast, city, sniper, fiction, bernard mclaverty, where the tides meet, torr head, ballycastle, dog, dogs, guns, shooting, rabbits, death, grief, burial, animals, pets, mourning, essay, padraic fiacc, fiacc answers back, honest ulsterman, faber, poets, poetry, religion, communication, the wearing of the black, ormsby, simmons, gerald dawe, poem, george buchanan, italian incident, beach, nature, tourism, industry, hotel, italy, bay, poem, george buchanan, lewis mumford, architecture, cities, city, humanity, poem, george buchanan, amabel, nostalgia, appearance, society, elegance, behaviour, decorum, class, woman, individual, poem, george buchanan, elderly widows, death, loss, solitude, loneliness, poem, george buchanan, pastoral, relationship, meeting, landscape, thomas hardy, poem john hewitt, as you like it, law reform, meeting, committee, shakespeare, performance, poem, john montague, the errigal road, hill head road, neighbour, neighbourhood, whiskey, curragh, fairy thorn height, violence, local, aughnacloy, omagh courthouse, conflict, poem, john montague, border lake, weather, cold, winter, swans, ice, poem, geoffrey squires, a sequence, sea, rock, tourists, elsewhereness, strand, boat, arrival, pier, light, nature, shore, cliffs, beauty, poem, michael longley, hare, animal, movement, clumsy, survival, poem, michael longley, odyssey, circe, nausicaa, calypso, penelope, odysseus, sex, women, affection, poem, norman dugdale, hurstwood, edmund spenser, poet, history, chaucer, place, burnley, north, time, past, family, farmstead, poem, norman dugdale, some notes for impartial observers, village, local, poem, michael brophy, the blackboard, teacher, teaching, school, chalk, lessons, erasing, removal, habit, poem, patrick williams, progress report, tired, exhaustion, life, survival, suffering, prayer, father, mother, poem, paul wilkins, body politics, politics, w. b. yeats, that girl standing there, helen of troy, women, maud gonne, ireland, malin’s head, troubles, poem, tom paulin, cadaver politic, grey, coffins, destruction, skin, landscape, waste, poem, tom paulin, arthur, emigration, individual, new york, south america, orinocco, river plate, buenos aires, leaving, poem, tom paulin, young funerals, death, youth, grief, fear, misery, poem, paul muldoon, ned skinner, family, aunt, butcher, pigs, far, past, relationships, poem, paul muldoon, the rucksack, lars, expedition, journey, mountain, guidance, survival, poem, ciaran carson, soot, cleaning, chimney sweep, sweeping, house, home, work, labour, fire, fireplace, autumn, soil, growth, pansy, poem, ciaran carson, the incredible shrinking man, gaberdine, childhood, growth, growing up, size, bodies, clothing, body, siblings, children, poem, trevor mcmahon, joseph, bodies, body, fingers, fingertips, intimacy, poem, trevor mcmahon, goliath, gods, giant, stone, david and goliath, poem, will peskett, hedge-school, love songs, friendship, dandies, writing, writers, poem, will peskett, summer heat, busride, bus, city, journey, work, transport, urban, poem, frank ormsby, natural history section, butterflies, nature, museum, butterfly, death, dead, english orange tip, irish common blue, exhibition, stuffed birds, poem, frank ormsby, the barracks, flowerbeds, weeding, flowers, army, cage, fences, guns, gardening, domestic, poem, derek mahon, a true story, 1944, d-day, war, world war 2, paul eluard, poems, royal air force, france, history, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, the bad companions, dan duggan, tarzan, hugh kerr, review, james simmons, the iambic pentameter is alive and well and living in belfast, out of my time, john hewitt, review, edna longley, fire and air, the snow party, derek mahon, review, ciaran carson, escaped from massacre?, north, seamus heaney, review, ciaran carson, a farewell to english, michael harnett, au revoir, review, peter burnett, seats in the gallery, without frenzy, sean clarkin, a garland for captain fox, robert greacen, a kind of trust, brendan kennelly, in the lion house, daniel reardon, review, peter burnett, screams and quiet voices, sarah, in passing, eithne strong, the hardening ground, shaun traynor, review, john kelly, satchmo, picasso, hitler, scott and some others, the love horse, john mole, elsewhere, david selzer, review, judith hutchinson, a good western, women in the wall, julia o’faolain, review, james simmons, closer to the source, stamping ground, maurice leitch, review, james simmons, recent reading, william price turner, the moral rocking-horse, patrick gavin, george buchanan, brian moore, the great victorian collection, review, pamphlets in brief,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Wilkins, Jordan, Poster, Allen, McCaughan, Morrow, Birtwhistle, O’Sullivan, Kelly, Young, Lavery, Daly, Jude the Obscure, Reid, Curtis, Price, Ewart, Donnell, Cooke, Watson. Cover by John Middleton.
poem, paul wilkins, north antrim coast, weather, ireland, driving, travel, portrush, ballycastle, nature, shore, travel, photograph, sunset, poem, paul wilkins, a graveyard in ulster, crow, grave, antrim, mourners, mourning, death, dead, church, history, coffin, ireland, poem, paul wilkins, euston, station, travel, trains, railway, platform, journey, poem, paul wilkins, the rose, autumn, flower, petals, seasons, growth, plants, poem, niall jordan, old photograph, priests, faces, images, church, charity, black, church militant, poem, jem poster, a change of scene, 1, another station, train, railway, relationship, motion, 2, first impressions, perception, reflection, relationship, farm, rural, evening, 3, deam, train, intimacy, 4, neolithic site: planning, place, margin, sea, 5, redefinition, walk, sea, sky, stone, 6, settling back, rain, weather, shore, memory, love, beach, poem, kate allen, rumpel stiltskin, fairy tale, miller’s daughter, intelligence, thought, gold, straw, spin, poem, maeve mccaughan, glass, candle, gloom, images, fiction, john morrow, the humours of bally turdeen, northern ireland, politics, sectarianism, alliance, belfast, prison, army, peelers, local, turberry’s meadows, dogs, poem, john birtwhistle, haysaving, a connemara journal, nature, farm, farming, mowing, daisies, daisy, hay, straw, weeds, rural, gaelic, work, community, yellow, poem, john birtwhistle, from a narrative of the english peasants’ revolt of 1381, john mason, jack farrier, jack carter, john sawyer, jack sower, john miller, jack viner, john smith, john fisher, jack skinner, john hayward, class, work, poem, d. j. o’sullivan, s country calendar, arran banners, flowers, musk mallow, landscape, nature, spring, weather, winter, seasons, growth, change, cycle, poem, d. j. o’sullivan, throwback, brown owl, bird, night, animal, poem, michael kelly, eerie northern lights: you can keep them, cold, weather, daffodils, bleak, grey, poem, translation, michael kelly, from the greek anthology, book v. 161, hedylos, asclepiadeds, aphrodite, sea, crones, channel, greece, book xi. 435, lucian, analyst, philosopher, philosophy, book xii. 16, strato, love, kiss, furtive, poem, augustus young, parents, family, home, father, mother, childhood, writer, poem, augustus young, public event, lord pakenham, childhood, occasion, family, poem, leo lavery, nightmare, dream, ghosts, death, surreal, train, pine, poem, leo lavery, thrush, bird, perception, eyes, staring, poem, padraig j daly, the days of christmas, season, thought, self, beginning, poem, padraig j daly, vicar street flats, exotic, light, ships, essay, h.u. business section, hu business section, jude the obscure, flatland, a romance of many dimensions, zeno, greek philosopher, paradoxes, science fiction, 2001 a space odyssey, a square, other worlds, e. a. abbott, spaceland, poem, meta mayne reid, open letter, to the honest ulsterman, have pen, will write, poet, fly, pest, critic canute, poem, simon curtis, the visit, hospital, ward, doctor, treatment, visitor, poem, victor price, the observer, birds, art, poetry, song, birdsong, nature, listening, poem, gavin ewart, the creation of the world, god, let there be light, earth, sea, world, origin, myth, life, beginning, poem, gavin ewart, limericks, limerick, writing, poetry, poem, mark burke, left in the air, street, road, stories, creation, images, house, cat, poem, killian o’donnell, incident at annaba, algeria, innocence, adolescence, sex, friendship, lust, poem, david cooke, visiting, childhood, self, friendship, poem, arthur watson, the goldfish, in the graveyard pond by wisbech church, fish, death, exposure, pollution, animals, dead, review, robert chapman, the craft of words, the poetry of john birtwhistle, review, ciaran carson, private but sulphurous, dr wilson as an arab, tom matthews, review, william t. mckinnen, testaments of sceptics, louis macneice: sceptical vision, terence brown, review, john constable, the poet of promise, living room, andrew waterman, review, terence mcmullan, translating machado, del camino, antonio machado, translated by michael smith, review, james simmons, mcgahern’s new novel, the leavetaking, john mcgahern,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Ormsby, Ewart, Eastman, Harrison, Matthews, Forbes, Johnston, Greacen, Waterman, Williams, Young, McCoy, Muldoon, Peskett, Deane, Buchannan, Marshall, Curtis, Jude the Obscure, Walter Mahon-Smith. Cover by John Middleton.
drama, frank ormsby, tragic anguish, poet, anthologist, disciple, ulster, bombs, bullets, writing, author, confrontation, weeping, emotion, expression, troubles, satire, art, violence, war, conflict, culture, poem, gavin ewart, choruses from a nativity play, 1, introductory, oola-moola bird, fear, 2, pre-natal, alliterative verse, cold, freezing, winter, messiah, religion, birth, blood, herod harrods, sopwith camel, 3, post-natal, lamb, vitality, 4, final, love, suffering, christmas, poem, j. m. eastman, the corset, body, appearance, fat, clothing, dress, poem, j. m. eastman, after the ball, cinderella, class, appearance, fairytale, love, clothing, poem, tony harrison, after rufinus, helias, 378 ad, beauty competition, body, appearance, miss bum, backsides, poem, tom matthews, concrete cottages, montgomeryshire 1870, buildings, landlord, tenants, tenantry, housing, university of wales, history, resilience, poem, tom matthews, dr wilson as an arab, edinburgh, calotype, photograph, camera, missionary, bombay, sepia, record, history, poem, tom matthews, good, parson, nervous breakdown, morality, good, goodness, help, social services, religion, poem, duncan forbes, the touch, theatre, covent garden, verona, dancer, beggar, homelessness, poverty, ballet, class, empathy, disability, drugs, poem, duncan forbes, peace talks, relationships, break-up, love, fiction, fred johnston, bittersweet, sanctuary, home, security, mourning, death, father, da, family, finglas, memory, remembering, past, relationships, love, burial, funeral, parent, returning, poem, robert greacen, a poet dying, in memory of clifford dyment, death, midlands, boyhood, memory, dreams, monmouthshire, sunset, wales, journey, green, dying, sleep, poem, andrew waterman, addiscombe, d. h. lawrence, colworth road, 1908-1911, home, london, memories, place, local, exile, poem, andrew waterman, not on the agenda, environmental studies, business, distraction, nature, ireland, rural, troubles, university, poem, peanuts in troy, new grub street, suburbs, solitude, home, housing, writing, writer, poor, alone, poem, patrick williams, teacher, black, teaching, pupil, love, pity, winter, master, school, poem, patrick williams, lost seed, gardening, plants, earth, spring, care, flowers, guilt, loss, growth, life, death, poem, patrick williams, seize the day, sleep, waking, dreams, light, dark, fear, present, poem, patrick williams, gunning to paradise, shankill road, teague, prod, falls, belfast, troubles, northern ireland, england, emigration, poem, augustus young, irish danta gradha, no. 17, sex, wife, relationship, passion, maid, anon., no. 100, woman, love, sex, relationship, age, old, elderly, youth, flesh, body, poem, jack mccoy, such a melancholic river god, water, poem, paul muldoon, duffy’s circus, moy, god, religion, ireland, childhood, performance, clowns, poem, paul muldoon, mules, animals, horses, donkeys, mule, birth, afterbirth, poem, william peskett, mercy-killing, driving, car, vehicle, road, road-kill, rabbit, pain, sympathy, grief, poem, william peskett, the colleen’s secret, graves, graveyard, corpse, body, love, lovers, essay, seamus deane, an irish intelligentsia: reflections on its desirability, intellectuals, literature, imagination, society, ireland, conflict, ira, troubles, poem, george buchanan, the time of our lives, contemporaneity, nathaniel tarn, war, submarine, boats, ulster, sea, coast, coastline, history, army, warfare, troops, europe, peace, poem, douglas marshall, watering place, portrush, summer, holiday, resort, seaside, coast, north coast, poem, simon curtis, beyond the derelict station, starlings, birds, ruin, nature, flight, flying, flock, wings, sound, winter, essay, the hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, c. s. lewis, christianity, ulster, literature, writer, narnia, aslan, the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, children’s literature, religion, letter, walter mahon-smith, review, terrence mcmullan, translating lorca, gipsy balland, federico garcia lorca, translated by michael hartnett, review, arthur mcmahon, spanish/irish, catalan poems, george mcwhirter, review, james simmons, vivid, but…, a tired tribe, michael brophy, review, edna longley, a minor poet, poems, padraic fallon review, james simmons, the man most touched, the wearing of the black, an anthology of contemporary ulster poetry, padraic fiacc, review, robert chapman, more than an entertainer, west strand visions, james simmons, review, william t. mckinnon, a new book on macneice, time was away: the world of louis macneice, terrence brown, alec reid, review, descartes’ dream, w. j. harvey, review, spent the morning, poems and drawings, john pakenham, review, no ivory tower, meta mayne reid, review, poems, james mckenna, review, shetland, like the world, robin munro, review, scissors for a one-armed tailor, john hewitt, review, the cave of night, john montague, review, night ferry, norman dugdale, review, odour of blood, padraic fiacc, review, interim notes on recent reading, dermot healy, soundlings 2, seamus heaney, derek mahon, spoken irish poetry, naked reason, george buchanan, john hewitt, out of my time, haydn murphy, broadsheet 21,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Dunn, McCaul, Paulin, Peacock, Carson, McMullan, Daly, Lavery, McLaverty, Brown, Kelly, Burleigh, Lynch, Greacen, Allen, Skinner, Burke, McKenna, Curtis, Hogan, Pursglove, Simmons, Morgan, Foley, Ewart, Longley, McIntyre, Deane, Holden, Jude the Obscure. Cover by John Middleton.
poem, douglas dunn, the come-on, society, class, culture, popular, writing, poem, jack mccoy, town, twilight, western, badlands, gunmen, trail’s end, bar, saloon, poem, jack mccoy, for anita glenn, after the persian, sufi, love, gift, magic, rasht, shiraz, quayen, heart, lovers, poem, tom paulin, a new society, past, forgetting, memory, housing, houses, buildings, dead, death, domesticity, poem, alan peacock, home from holiday, house, time, place, ownership, familiarity, belongings, poem, alan peacock, message in a bottle, vulnerability, loneliness, rescue, instability, lost, sea, knowledge, poem, ciaran carson, belleek, ceramics, pottery, character pieces, tobacco brewer, jack at sea, prisoner of love, tea, food, eating, domestic, design, craft, cloud, sky, beauty, moment, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, luis cernuda, poem, I want to be alone in the south, spain, landscape, singing, song, beauty, geography, desert, darkness, light, rain, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, manuel altolaguirre, poem, beach, boats, sea, shore, sun, shadow, presence, fishermen, open book, poem, padraig j. daly, toucher, road, travel, rejection, age, old, experience, empathy, poem, padraig j. daly, wisdom, mind, thought, contradictions, consciousness, uncertain, poem, padraig j. daly, sagart III, winter, solitude, rural, countryside, marginal, liminal, silence, communication, tale, story, age, old, experience, poem, leo lavery, st malachy’s college, for john murray, school, pupil, adolescence, endurance, pain, nostalgia, education, protection, separation, caesar, cato, pleasure, fiction, bernard mclaverty, anodine, food, ireland, howard’s end, seaside, beach, death, loss, care, mother, parent, recovery, holiday, memory, books, reading, hopkins, drawing, sketching, poetry, english, teaching, teacher, trinity college dublin, friendship, social behaviour, fiction, bernard mclaverty, a pornographer woos, beach, holiday, sea, ogee, family, lust, body, motherhood, writing, writer, mother-in-law, children, family, affection, love, cunt, sex, desire, poem, jonathan brown, the amateur, rent-boy, contempt, bus-fare, saviour, prostitution, affair, poem, jonathan brown, he flounces out, love, affair, homosexuality, gay, emotions, fight, tantrum, break-up, poem, michael kelly, coming sober to bed, intimacy, attention, sensation, body, mind, experience, poem, michael kelly, ember day, romance, love, relationship, restaurant, affection, prayer, poem, david burleigh, pause, recognition, relationships, memory, remembering, regret, moment, crowd, people, poem, david burleigh, rape, for jeanine, sex, abuse, violence, lust, desire, strength, trauma, human rights, vulnerability, poem, liam lynch, o’rahilly’s true love, relationship, romance, passion, sex, tete-a-tete, lover, experience, poem, liam lynch, o’rahilly’s first love, misogyny, sex, virginity, poem, robert greacen, knowing and not knowing, knowledge, wisdom, tao, lao-tsu, taoism, silence, silent, chinese, po chu-i, writing, speaking, contradiction poem, k. allen, a voice, prophet, prophecy, preacher, preaching, antrim, down, christianity, salvation, communication, poem, knute skinner, children, son, parenthood, childhood, fulfillment, adulthood, singing, jumping, poem, mark burke, silver on black, death, cats, kittens, drowning, survival, life, breath, culling, animals, murder, poem, james n. mckenna, after autumn, leaves, nature, rain, fall, london, seasons, fashion, change, mccabe, society, city, kensington, poem, gabriel curtis, awaiting battle, war, army, trenches, disability, amputee, amputation, injury, sympathy, wound, gun, thomson-gun, arm, body, fiction, desmond hogan, teddy-boys, teddy boys, 1950s, subculture, culture, clothing, ireland, youth, small town, james dean, innocence, sex, adolescence, tragedy, drowning, death, genitals, nakedness, local, essay, michael pursglove, andrey platonov: an introduction, russian, the locks of yepiphan, for future use, red star, the third son, a flower in the earth, poem, james simmons, west strand visions, watching, view, observation, port stewart, sights, evening, sunset, seaside, north coast, poem, james simmons, last port, dying, death, body, organs, flesh, sensation, army, war, soldier, defender, defence, attack, poem, james simmons, definitions, thanksgiving, emotion, love, pride, poem, edwin morgan, from the new divan, 62, storyteller, tale, story, sinbad, flying carpet, monsters, sea, fairytale, magic, one hundred and one nights, 63, galilee, tourism, travelling, religion, pilgrimage, paviours, 64, smoke, children, poverty, radiation, destruction, refugee, poem, michael foley, through the gateless gate, zen, chinese, koans, ten irish poets, career, success, sloth, authenticity, poem, michael foley, the dance of thought, mind, thinking, life, aspirations, acceptance, failure, poem, gavin ewart, a double view, izaak walton, the complete angler, 1652, joan c. southerland, club international, 1974, pleasure, piscator, history, england, yanks, limeys, verjuice, past, sex, poem, gavin ewart, the elizabethan american paperback song, sex, the lover and his lass, lust, poem, michael longley, for marie, a prayer, irish, baby, reticence, quotation, mary, ann, pregnancy, motherhood, baby, a telegram, birth, pearl, oyster, creation, poem, michael longley, dream, intimacy, body, hair, sleep, poem, michael longley, on sitting down to read keats’s ‘on sitting down to read king lear once again’ once again, title, reading, writing, parthenogenesis, johannes factotum, literature, influence, poem, tom macintyre, weasel, road, night, moon, dog, fear, animals, anticipation, rats, anxiety, threat, danger, poem, seamus deane, a deeper exile, sea, desire, longing, nature, pathetic fallacy, loneliness, weather, emotions, loss, love, poem, molly holden, cargoes, summer, seasons, wind, weather, flowers, fruit, burgeoning, growth, nature, spring, autumn, memory, sensation, imagination, poem, molly holden, eastnor castle, ledbury, malvern, chiddock, yews, nature, woods, family, visit, weekend, happiness, memoir, robert greacen, denis ireland: a memoir, belfast, rosemary street, p. e. n., campbell’s cafe, from the jungle of belfast, eulogy, letter, robert greacen, letter to the editor, essay, the hu business section, the h. u. business section, jude the obscure, edward hopper, art, painting, painter, subject-matter, work, thomas eakins, robert henri, american artists, ash-can school, brian o’doherty, the comedians, nighthawks, office at night, review, john hewitt, the centaur at the house of prayer, the poetry of austin clarke, austin clarke: collected poems, review, james simmons, wise, balanced and beautiful, december bride, sam hanna bell, review, ciaran carson, ryan on the rocks, please, ravenswood, richard ryan, review, james simmons, neither clergyman nor schoolteacher, tyrone folk quest, michael j. murphy,