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: Simmons, Muldoon, Gallagher, Percy, Peskett, Dawe, Buchanan, Fainlight, McCarthy, Phillips, Skinner, Williams, Clifton, Gorman, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Michael Morgan.
poem, james simmons, after eden, marriage, relationship, husband, fight, row, wife, break-up, violence, domestic abuse, poem, james simmons, the imperial theme, girls, sex, lust, bodies, clitoris, genitalia, poem, james simmons, mr. cordelia, marriage, husband, wife, row, flight, domestic, poet, truth, poetry, relationship, conflict, poem, james simmons, a song of herself, gender, romeo, youth, virginity, girl, fear, poem, paul muldoon, making the move, literature, ulysses, marriage, distance, leaving, ownership, possession, bow, weapon, poem, tess gallagher, the wives of my childhood, women, wife, gender, memory, men, mothers, poem, tess gallagher, i save your coat but you lose it later, belongings, possessions, mourning, loss, attachment, clothing, poem, tess gallagher, some with wings, some with manes, neighbour, age, old, elderly, garden, growth, fruit, disease, determination, effort, sewing, trees, cathedral windows, poem, margaret percy, night watch, death, dying, survival, care, custody, light, poem, william peskett, fenland, water, rural, fifteen foot, forty foot, damp, landscape, change, hundred foot, flood, wet, rain, poem, william peskett, earthworms, life, living, survival, experience, existence, poem, gerald dawe, interstices, distance, place, rain, mayo, christ, essay, george buchanan, lyle donaghy, a personal note, poem, ruth fainlight, only the magpie, bible, noah, fall, paradise, flight, animals, desire, fulfillment, poem, patricia mccarthy, village church, graveyard, death, sadness, mourning, music, motet, pascal, evensong, agnostic, agnosticism, belief, faith, religion, poem, adam phillips, reading outside, wasps, insects, wasp, september, impatience, hurry, summer, impatient, poem, knute skinner, at a silent meeting, silence, speech, communication, sabbath, religion, god, prayer, poem, knute skinner, a social engagement, friendship, friends, interaction, party, occasion, poem, patrick williams, credo, youth, life, death, age, aging, birth, survival, poem, harry clifton, the old city dam, river, water, urban, silence, beauty spot, landscape, poem, harry clifton, savannah in bloom, africa, dry season, rain, weather, plains, rainy season, growth, poem, michael gorman, erris, barnata, mayo, landscape, foxpoint, devil’s spit, bogs, plants, nature, houses, glencastle, tourist, tourism, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, george ade, mark twain society, pnk marsh, doc’s home, chicago, drama, review, edna longley, katherine mansfield, a biography, jeffrey meyers, review, tom paulin, let the day perish, in dreams begin responsibilities, delmore schwartz, delmore schwartz, the life of an american poet, james atlas, delmore schwartz: what is to be given: selected poems, douglas dunn, review, brian andrews, mister strangelove, in between the sheets ian mcewan, review, gerald dawe, the rain dance, john hewitt, review, david montrose, muscular strains, an attitude of mind, john cassidy, review, david montrose, the first cuckoo, the woddis collection, roger woddis, review, brian andrews, wade not balanced, letters to w. b. yeats (2 volumes), richard j. finneran, george mills harper, william m. murphy, review, michael k. acheson, landscapes of the heart, corncrake in october, norman dugdale,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Mahon, Goodenough, Wichert, Ewart, Scully, Vincente, Rae, Gorman, Deane, Curtis, Szirtes, Phillips, Rumens, McDonald, Williams, Lagan, Johnstone, Mather, Gillilian, Daugherty, Jude the Obscure. Book reviews by: Jude the Obscure, Montrose, Andrews.
poem, derek mahon, north wind, weather, coast, sea, storm, tempest, poem, derek mahon, brighton poems, for paul smith, memory, remember, friendship, nostalgia, sea, belfast, laverys, europe, france, english, pier, poem, judith goodenough, predecessor, garden, mint, home, trace, occupant, house, ghost, poem, judith goodenough, periphery, animals, garden, encounter, empathy, home, domestic, mouse, blackbird, fox, poem, judith goodenough, stillbirth, star, firmament, sky, place, death, loss, poem, judith goodenough, auguries, omen, bloodshed, violence, killing, poem, judith goodenough, wooing the wizard, necromancer, magic, guises, shapeshifter, fear, fright, poem, sabine wichert, memory, night, leaving, affair, magic, shadows, intimacy, sentiment, emotion, poem, gavin ewart, the pope in africa, roman catholic, catholicism, missionary, power, birth control, divorce, poverty, religion, poem, gavin ewart, literary, residential, creative writing, writers, mental health, poem, gavin ewart, certitude, father, family, parent, parenthood, abuse, violence, fear, son, domestic, poem, maurice scully, orchid, bee orchid, flower, orphys, civilization, nature, tesitcle, regret, poem, gil vincente, translation, spanish, geoffrey may, 16th century, cassy’s song, marriage, husband, wife, independence, women, rebellion, poem, simon rae, aubade, farm, dogs, animals, sound, noise, rural, countryside, emptiness, leaving, home, poem, damian gorman, rodin’s the thinker, metheusalah, atlas, intelligence, world, ekphrasis, greek mythology, philosophy, judaism, sculpture, auguste rodin, poem, damian gorman, the stone, beetle, empathy, life, insect, protection, fear, frightened, poem, seamus deane, osip mandlestam, poetry, need, society, bukharin, yaagoda, rykov, shot, shoot, petropolis, styx, russian, jewish, poem, seamus deane, directions, war monument, derry, memorial, city, journey, destiny, poem, michael carey, for and infant left in a winter chill, night, city, taxi, death, baby, neglect, abandonment, poem, simon curtis, may-song at the litchborough church, art, religion, erection, penis, sin, grace, pagan, christian, poem, george szirtes, the object of desire, intimacy, relationship, love, sleep, bed, speaking, regret, words, waking up, poem, george szirtes, romantic episode, hunt, hunting, gun, rabbit, forest, animals, poem, adam phillips, permanent residence, home, house, trace, residue, domestic, poem, carol rumens, small views, landscape, sea, travel, sky, view, poem, carol rumens, a poor man, gifts, poverty, library books, family, domestic, home, shoes, father, parenthood, poem, peter mcdonald, dead letters, snow, journey, belfast, home, rain, comfort, fear, poems, poetry, memory, love, relationship, loss, poem, peter mcdonald, return, aeroplane, airport, flight, plane, travel, journey, home, place, pain, sadness, poem, patrick williams, morning, time, night, spring, beginning, suffering, life, hope, suicide, poem, patrick williams, a marriage, family, tension, child, parents, parenthood, imperfection, poem, cathal lagan, the dark of the dawn, rain, weather, past, continuation, change, familiarity, poem, cathal lagan, your hair, wind, weather, personality, poem, cathal lagan, it all depends, poetry, poem, communication, red wheelbarrow, william carlos williams, poem, robert johnstone, from homage to rowntree-mackintosh, polo, york, polo mint, confectionary, sweets, rowntree, factory, labour, black magic, machinery, chocolate, cocoa, industry, food, poem, robert johnstone, deja vu, father, aging, memory, childhood, pigeons, birds, poem, peter mather, home cooking, food, kitchen, jam, preserve, sugar, home, childhood, damson, duckam’s oil, chippy, beetroot, father, son, mother, cellar, poem, pamela gillilan, semi-detached, home, house, domestic, mother, bathing, childhood, poem, pamela gillilan, dilemma, decision making, confusion, poem, michael daugherty, the hill, place, memory, nostalgia, poem, michael daugherty, poem for a loser, gambling, horse racing, gambler, poem, michael daugherty, may, relationship, dislike, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, alphonse daudet, writer, novels, novelist, jack, le nabab, les rois en exil, french, review, jude the obscure, a restoration playboy, identity papers, anthony cronin, review, david montrose, the long ascendancy, selected poems, richard murphy, review, david montrose, class is the curse of the thinking workers, barbarians, douglas dunn, review, robert johnstone, meticulous arrows of evidence, survivors, william perkett, review, brian andrews, on serious earth, the strange museum, tom paulin,
Editors: Michael Foley/Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Foley, Carson, Pallister, Hogan, Ormsby, Biggar, Ewert, Moore, Boll, Thomas (translated by Watson), Mahon, Jude the Obscure.
editorial, michael foley, the new science fiction, poetry, poem, literature, george steiner, technical, beckett, academia, academics, university, poem, ciaran carson, king’s lynn III, east winch, holbeach, clench warton, heacham, van gogh, sea, shore, words, syllables, tide, wind, weather, beauty, pattern, water, poem, trevor pallister, shapes, shape, animals, animal, evolution, survival, nature, bat, rat, snake, crane, beetle, appearance, purpose, life, poem, trevor pallister, behond the gang, metal man, family, son, wife, father, sound, domestic, home, craft, poem, trevor pallister, expeditions, organise, organisation, shapes, shape, order, heat, discovery, collection, exploration, journey, travel, poem, trevor pallister, the journey to durham, travel, england, north, road, vehicle, drive, driving, shildon, fear, beer, blue star, home, stockton, trimdon, crook, hetton, place, northern, fiction, desmond hogan, the hedgehog, cevennes, alps, france, french, adolescence, travel, ireland, romance, dead, death, animal, holiday, solitude, loneliness, teen, youth, history, war, czechoslovakia, invasion, russia, poem , frank ormsby, an uncle remembered, family, bachelor, age, drink, drunk, alcohol, social, wedding, embarrassment, old, solitude, relationship, poem, frank ormsby, a brother, family, cain, competition, sibling rivalry, eleven plus, youth, adolescence, relationship, body, fiction, joe biggar, first chronicle of farset, chapter 3, geddle, dialect, friendship, drunk, drinking, clifden, chapter 4, culture, popular, local, family, class, mental asylum, health, hospital, spring, poem, gavin ewart, experience hotel, manhattan, new york, drink, drunk, alcohol, work, leisure, poem, pat moore, stones, beach, collection, collecting, nature, pebble, rock, shape, sensation, shore, sea, home, touch, affection, poem, michael foley, careers talk, work, career, profession, behaviour, coffee, social performance, job, jobs, employment, fiction, translation, heinrich boll, translated ian watson, german, that expensive leg of mine, work, amputee, injury, disability, disabled, employment, job, pension, money, army, soldier, on the bridge, or my uncounted love, counting, bridge, numbers, statistics, love, romance, future perfect, poem, jean thomas, a frenchman in derry, serge fauchereau, ireland, derry, city, reformation, protestant ethic, rights, god, side, conflict, poem, derek mahon, j. p. donleavy’s dublin, life, time, past, future, aspiration, dream, poem, derek mahon, i am raftery, graduate, study, university, age, east anglia, joyce, confusion, poem, derek mahon, gypsies II, peace, violence, home, caravan, motorway, police, fear, death, fate, house, poem derek mahon, the graduate in metal box, career, company, job, profession, employment, growing up, lifestyle, experience, youth, article, the HU business section, jude the obscure, patrick kavanagh, samuel beckett, myles na gopaleen, politics, conservative, right wing, class, society, work, essay, derek montgomery, thoughts of derek montgomery, the reactionaries by john harrison, yeats, eliot, pound, literature, interpretation, review, patrick close, appollo’s blended dream, a study of the poetry of louis macneice, william t. mckinnon, review, frank ormsby, an ulster reckoning, john hewitt, review, michael foley, energy to burn, james simmons, review, james simmons, fergus, brian moore,
Editor: James Simmons. Contributors: Ewart, Hearsum, Brophy, Martin, Glancy, Price Turner, Allen, Fiacc, Cromie, Cassidy, Simmons, Simmons L., Greer, Flanagan.
Revolutionary advice, James Simmons, Poem, Gavin Ewart, Broadstairs, summer, children, writer Poem, Gavin Ewart, A Vision, Virgin, religion, winter, Mary, writer, writing, Greek, poetry Poem, Gavin Ewart, The Dickens Wife, family, wife, husband, relationships, old, aging, body, fat, love, marriage, Poem, Gavin Ewart, The Seven Stages, love, sex, guilt, god, age, prayer, death, life, Letter, John Hearsum, Story, John Hearsum, The Umbrella, umbrella, theft, stealing, kleptomania, confession, sex, lust, artist, Poem, Michael Brophy, Death in the Glen, Collin Glen 1968, nature, past, death Poem, Michael Brophy, Flowers, nature, flowers, blooming, night, dream, Geranium, Poem, Michael Brophy, Dance Little Man, psalms, oppressor, love, loss, happy, song, singing, performance, sad, Poem, Hazel Martin, Folk Song, nature, tree, love, song, past, tradition, repetition, land Poem, Hazel Martin, Magilligan, war, child, mother, memory, hurt, nature, land, shore, Story, H. N. Glancy, Irish Medical Lore, Celts, medicine, Ireland, ancient history, doctors, pre-christian, monastic, patient, money, myth, disease, cure, Cavan, saoirse, Introduction, W. Price Turner Poem, W. Price Turner, Rose Harem, cat, rose, colour, black, red, beauty, sensual, Poem, W. Price Turner, A Northern Tragedy, death, husband, wife, widow, travel, burial, dying, grief, mourning, postman, funeral, dog, past, woman, irony Poem, W. Price Turner, The Queer Spleen Face, writer, family, publishing, money, irony Poem, W. Price Turner, Prop and Prodder, emotion, death, husband, wife, wooden leg, mourning, grief, life, Poem, W. Price Turner, The Moral Rocking-Horse, morality, horse, riding, age, old, riding Essay, Walter Allen, Reasons for Reading Joyce Cary, childhood, anglo-irish, novels, boyhood, Charley is my Darling, novelists, Poem, Padraic Fiacc, Morning Dark, For John McGahern, nature, death, life, father, mother, sea, future, past, morning, day Poem, Stanley Cromie, reflections on a traitor, law, money, crime, traitor, politics, democracy, pornography, porn, Moscow, Philby Poem, Stanley Cromie, Specialization, darts, poetry, hobby, occupation, ambition, best, sport, man, masculinity, achievement Poem, John Cassity, Love Seen, love, romance, lovers, Autumn, weather, body, bodies, Letter, This Ulster, N. Lendrum, Bangor, Review, Underneath the water, Charles Causley, Poem, Laura Simmons, Across the river and up the creek, man,men, masculinity, urination, mounting, fishing, gun, power, physicality, Poem, James Greer, Awakening, for stephen gwynne, indians, native american, fenimore cooper, child, boy, boyhood, Ulster, pride, America, nation, land, lore, legend, dreams, donegal, fantasy Poem, James Simmons, New Song, The Ulster Soldier Boy, high germany, war, soldier, army, ulster, nation, duty, propaganda, glory, love, family, germany, death, hunger, hero, pride,
Editor: James Simmons, Contributors: Matthews, Crowley, Selman, Dugdale, Price Turner, Allen, O’Keefe, Moulden, Kirkpatrick, Finch, Featherstone, Holland, Peskett, Perry, Cromie Stephens, Thomson.
editorial, james simmons, more notes towards a revolution, overheard in a bar in the city, professor, student, conservative, socialist, labour, politics, youth, age, blake, conversation, debate, revolutionary, poem, tom matthews, the dead saviour, death, body, genitals, smell, respect, poem, tom matthews, diffuse, larne, scatter, disperse, poem, finbar crowley, on visiting o’neill’s tomb in rome, hugh o’neill, burial, grave, monument, shrine, pilgrimage, tribute, death, dead, leader, war, italy, history, exile, lord mountjoy, battle, kinsale, queen elizabeth, tudor, ireland, england, nation, nationalism, tyrone, poem, libby selman, after seeing the film “kapy selan alla” at the stoll cinema newcastle, nudity, naked, sex, Finland, finnish, movie, holiday, camp, nature, poem, norman dugdale, sea change, sea, salt, tide, travel, penelope, family, seafarer, poem, w. pryce turner, hard lines, stag party, men, man, money, leeds, poem, walter allen, flaubert, writer, writing, travel, word, letter, words, isolation, separation, illness, poem, 5 poems from a cycle, muiris o’keeffe, 3. sweeney loves the world, man, lust, individual, wandering, walking, walk, 4. sweeney growing cold, experience, life, snow, cold, ice, boredom, winter, 5. sweeney turns sideways to god, religion, ennui, purpose, prayer, tired, 6. sweeney in the wilderness, crow, death, funeral, burial, sadness, grief, life, 7. sweeney disappears into the sunset, wandering, travel, journey, ramble, solitude, alone, road, disappearing, loss, cork, essay, john p. moulden, folk singer at work, song, oral, music, singing, folksinger, performer, performance, work, interpretation, love, art, profession, poem, johnston kirkpatrick, concerning gardens, nature, growth, autumn, regeneration, gardening, plants, labour, green, earth, neighbour, neighbours, community, domestic, home, season, poem, peter finch, incidentally, this is a love poem, poet, poetry, relationship, relationships, feeling, emotion, writing, writer, flower, nature, detstruction, love, cardiff, poem, mike featherstone, contempt of court, law, justice, crime, conviction, violence, life, choice, decision, t. w. featherstone, the thin air of sunset, poem, w. i. holland, mansize resurrection, morning, beginning, rising, spring, return, religion, christianity, dublin, poem, william peskett, whistling, kettle, domestic, home, food, cooking, life, lobster, animal, animals, empathy, poem, alan perry, poetry reading, routine, words, book, read, sensation, words, words, language, swansea, poem, caryl cromie, weekend, home, alienation, strange, poem, caryl cromie, parting, relationship, relationships, love, leaving, break-up, speaking, communication, belfast, review, james simmons, door into the dark, seamus heaney, review, james simmons, coming out fighting, philip hobsbaum, the sick lion, watching and waiting, lake scene, review, james simmons, poems on theatre, bertolt brecht, translation, translated, john berger, anna bostock, review, michael stephens, nothing personal, richard avedon, james baldwin, review, michael stephens, hymns to st geryom and other poems, michael mcclure,
Editors: Michael Foley/Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Connors, Wilson, Ewart, Simmons, Burleigh, Harrison, Lee, Parker, Carr, Ireland, Carson, Murphy, Ormsby, Flanagan, Weir, Magee, Shanks, Clerkin.
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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,
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: 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,