HU Mar - Jun 79
description: 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.
coverage: 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 mont…

HU Mar - May 81
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Bartlett, Damian Gorman, Meehan, Canterbury, Devine, Stapleton, Torney, Matthews, Morrow, Ewart, Foley, Michael Gorman, Orpwood, Crawford, Dawe, Treby, McDonald, Carr, Buchanan, Groves, Holmes, Jude the Obscure. Book reviews by Montrose, Andrews. Cover by JAMM.
coverage: poem, elizabeth bartlett, a pastoral crime, sex, hymen, rural, virginity, bodies, blood, horses, nature, change, poem, elizabeth bartlett, quite a day, class, home, domestic, family, mother, bureaucracy, judgement, means, shame, embarrassment, poem, elizabeth bartlett, heart and soul, loss, leaving, residue, home, house, belongings, self, body, love, resilience, relationship, poem, damian gorman, pierrot sonnet, memory, childhood, child, place, laughter, ruins, ulsterhall, nostalgia, poem, frankie meehan, fall, adolescence, missing, disappearance, school, memory, biology, youth, poem, frankie meehan, pent up, chickens, hens, animals, purpose, poem, john canterbury, the uncle, alcoholic, wino, alcohol, drinking, food, materials, sensation, drawing, sketching, poem, brian devine, the mender, craft, watch, mending, fixing, poem, kathleen jamie, baiting the fish, ice, death, smell, stench, animal, poem, laurence stapleton, the summer owl, yeats. reading, interruption, animal, sound, cry, bird, poem, martin torney, speech, disability, communication, deaf, dumb, people, others, sound, silence, underground, poem, tom matthews, postal proposal, marriage, letters, communication, fiction, john morrow, paramilitary tennis, sport, exercise, middle age, aging, fiction, john morrow, tommy carlisle, river, pollution, lagan, blackstaff, danger, survival, community, sickness, miracle, disease, healer, healing, success, resilience, fame, poem, gavin ewart, christmas 1980, society, season, festival, contemporary, pagan, christian, thatcher, regan, politics, carols, poem, gavin ewart, sonnet: playing for time, auschwitz, arthur miller, holocaust, racism, humanity, gender, human, empathy, genocide, poem, michael foley, the go situation, philosophy, writing, writers, poetry, protection, shelter, involvement, exposure, confidence, poem, michael gorman, grandmother, after the vacation, family, emigration, emigre, usa, new york, chicago, sligo, rural, ireland, barber, community, devotions, …

HU Mar-May 73
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Ormsby, Foley, Smith, Lavery, Muldoon, Pinkey, Hendriks, Weir, Peacock, Taylor, Carson, Longley, Middleton, Ewart, Hogan, Jude the Obscure, Simmons.
coverage: editorial, frank ormsby, summer heat, thaddeus mckinstry, ballintaggart journal and country observer, in memoriam, michael longley, david hammond, seamus heaney, wintering out, arts council, poem, michael foley, nowadays, women, female, sluts, poem, michael foley, after the duel, the great scheme of things, affair, relationship, poem, michael foley, loosed into freedom, bar, finished, scissors, poem, michael foley, bunk beds for the boys, family, parenthood, parent, children, poem, michael foley, no delicate pose poems, poetry, writing, icarus bawling, daddy longlegs, work, tough, poem, michael foley, when i’m alone, rimbaud, cabaret vert, work, nineteenth century, poem, michael foley, i’m scared, papish, travel, letters, poem, michael foley, sois sage, young, youth, hate, love, impecunious state, french, gallantry, poem, mike pinkey, to sandro - an answer, freedom, germany, language, honesty, memory, past, poem, mike pinkey, tramp, luck, splattered, picking up the pieces, france, germany, destruction, caret, poem, a. l. hendricks, their mouths but not their hearts, englishmen, kipling, teachers, education, colonisation, competition, nationality, diplomacy, european, immigration act, poem, anthony weir, bangui, central african republic, january 1973, the bereft, watching, washing, self, ubangi, movement, poem, anthony weir, captivity, zoo, animals, cage, colonialism, imprisonment, rotting, poem, anthony weir, leprosy, disease, sangha, exploitation, forests, pygmies, hide, hiding, poem, alan peacock, mole, animal, furrow, hole, snow, searching, finding, truth, molehills, poem, alan peacock, mystery, unknown, cloud, death, bones, sheep, poem, peter taylor, elegy upon a mask, gorhams pond, rings end road, costume, memory, nature, hornets, ivy, bacchus, forest, wood, decoration, decorate, poem, peter taylor, ferret hide, for michael, parchment, bookcase, book, poem, ciaran carson, versions after mallarme, 1, the swan, dawn, lake, water, flight, flying, twilight, light, …

HU Mar/Apr/May 1972
description: Note: Three Month issue. Editors: Michael Foley/Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Foley, Longley, Simmons, Biggar, Matthews, Weir, Jude the Obscure, McCoy, Wilson, Cumberlege.
coverage: autofiction, autobiography, nonfiction, michael foley, the movies, memory, first person, cinema, films, boys, coming of age, smoking, skeleton, class, sexuality, masculine, masculinity, myths, greek, destiny, sport, The Hustler, pool, love, mystical, mystique, books, high brow, Don Kennedy, foreign film, brothel, zeitgeist, Paddy the irishman, Nazis, world war two, WW2, WWII, Yugoslavia, Germany, America, male friendship, violence, toxic masculinity, montage, B movies, western, lynching, hell, outer hebrides, Russian, poem, michael longley, keaton, silver, meditative, image, darkness, crockery, fragile, fragility, solar system, whirling poem, james simmons, selections from no land is waste, extracts, sexuality, masculinity, misogynism, misogyny, apathy, whore, women, frigid, narrative poetry, pleasure, prostitute, prostitution, Eton, Churchill, spring, cruelty, bedsit, Regents Park, typists, secretary, secretaries, pale bare legs, desire, coffee, Kunzle cake, Philip Larkin, 1963, Annus Mirabilis, Stearns, Queen Elizabeth first, royal, silly, rich, odor, smell, Brighton Pier, Cleopatra, Mark Anthony, Power, Richard Nixon, song, church, sensuous, lunch, litter, sweets, ice-cream, cigarettes, fruit, contraceptive, strip, undress, bars, beer, sausages, eggs, pies, sandwiches room at the bottom, Odeon, cinema, Marble Arch, Cliffs of Dover, fighter pilot, blue birds, obscenity, obscenities, curse, cursing, cuss, expletitive, Ireland, anti-Irish, Paddy, fucking, pigs, comb, cock, phoetic, war, blast, piss, shit, control, balls, King, cashier, decay, British Broadcasting Company, LGBT, queer, Toronto Star, singer, Your Uncle Tony, abuse, molestation, violation, costumes, penis, wank, jerking, ejaculate, climax, orgasm, death, dead, Horner, theatre, Australia, moustache, The Sydney Sun, success, talent, employment, jobs tiresias got it all wrong, typist, bedsit, lone, The Observer, Spaghetti Bolognaise, date, dating, estate agent clerk, wine, kisses, laughs, sausage, chips, …

HU March - July 74
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Simmons, Ewart, Enright, Warman, Gill, Young, Matthews, Lavery, Morrow, McLaughlin, Smith, Carson, Buchanan, Strong, Watson, Cruise, Galvin, Hewitt, Longley, Curtis, Clifton, Abse, Corbiere, Platinov, Jude the Obscure, Cover by John Middleton.
coverage: poem, james simmons, young husband, marriage, wife, solitude, affairs, relationships, work, jobs, privacy, suicide, poem, james simmons, for thomas moore, author of moore’s irish medleys, singer, song, music, courage, peace, hope, poem, james simmons, smiler simmons, emotions, happiness, health, smiling, smile, comedy, laugh, paradox, poem, james simmons, hell, clay pigeons, st francis, poem, gavin ewart, the homespun philosophies, complexity, simplicity, life, poetry, consolation, poets, poem, gavin ewart, the sublime and the ridiculous, love, sex, desire, sensation, emotion, heat, poem, d. j. enright, days of the underground, social behaviour, people, society, city, subway, london, moods, poetry, writing, politeness, empathy, poem, d. m. warman, man of letters, poetry, writing, author, novel, writer, poem, d. m. warman, expedition, whaling, sailing, sailor, adventure, whale, travel, poem, eunan gill, portraits on a kitchen wall, art, kennedy, jesus, domestic, cuba, crucifixion, hero, idol, poem, augustus young, oedipal kink, sigmund freud, circus, lust, violence, childhood, mother, mam, poem, augustus young, family scene, father, brother, childhood, play, home, parenthood, poem, tom matthews, bees, arse, words, joke, comedy, love, emotion, poem, leonard lavery, testament, blind, miracle, saviour, healed, story, bible, fiction, john morrow, jason, childhood, names, belfast, identity, c stream, poem, william mclaughlin, old irish woman on an eighteenth century bridge, age, elderly, swans, nature, clothing, appearance, watching, poem, iain crichton smith, lewis, place, belonging, fishermen, crofters, home, poem, iain crichton smith, the minimal land, landscape, love, weather, bare, seasons, bareness, emptiness, poem, ciaran carson, the casting of the bell, craft, metal, ore, mould, sound, poem, ciaran carson, linen, photograph, cold, mill, labour, work, snow, weaving, poem, ciaran carson, limestone, quarry, sound, vehicle, machinery, listening, poem, ciaran carson, a…

HU March 1969
description: Editor: James Simmons: Contributors: Simmons, Brindley, Cassidy, Foley, Squire, Sullivan, Mulhearn, Adams, Magee, Brown, Phillips, Watkin, Dunne, Anderson, Middleton.
coverage: editorial, revolutionary advice 8, james simmons, aesthetics and demonstrations, ulster unionists, ignorance, fear, society, protest, education, violence, eammon mccann, new university, reform, communication, literature, culture, conversation, cooperation, art, Fiction, terry brindley, mr nicholas, railway, trains, steam train, childhood, friendship, friends, death, dead, wake, mourning, corpse, play, youth, imagination, bird, eggs, education, dream, dreaming, crocodile, fear, tooth, teeth, dentist, pain, name, identity, afraid, poets of west ulster, derry, poem, john cassidy, courting disaster, love, romance, memory, beach, summer, winter, failure, poem, john cassidy, road death, car, motor, traffic, dawn, travel, crow, bird, injury, death, accident, poem, john cassidy, trial and terror, court, satire, contentment, unrest, speech, speaking, indifference, apathy, atrophy, hell, death, body, execution, accusation, surreal, poem, john cassidy, a pome for all seasons, autumn, summer, spring, winter, year, cycle, nature, form, circle, repetition, recurrence, regeneration, movement, energy, growth, life, death, poem, michael foley, bogey men, childhood, child, children, fear, 1950s, danger, time, past, adolescence, change, growing up, perspective, age, poem, james simmons, still another poet, poetry, verse, authority, resistance, class, money, poor, english, university, education, lowell, cummings, villon, access, poem, geoffrey squires, donegal, my friend, friendship, mathematics, logic, words, friendship, light, comprehension, understanding, knowledge, poem, geoffrey squires, aisling, love, romance, emotion, boredom, disappointment, wither, society, privacy, poem, d. O’sullivan, centipede, nature, animal, insect, night, dark, fertile, reproduction, egg, movement, sex, regeneration, eggs, poem, d o’sullivan, water, waves, sea, shore, boat, pier, gannet, birds, age, retirement, pension, old, navy, youth, memory, ship, ships, titanic, ark royal, isolda, nostalgia, aging, …

HU March/April 1970
description: Editors: Michael Foley/Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Foley, McLaughlin, Simmons, Muldoon, Heaney, Hewitt, Morrow, Ewart, Stephens, Fallon, Weir, Kennelly, Ormsby, Richards, Grecen, Stevenson, Duncan, Morgan, Newmann, Young, Carr.
coverage: Editorial address, michael foley, james simmons, essay, michael foley, labour pains, youth, work, education, job, capitalism, money, profession, career, purpose, writing, writer, poem, tom mclaughlin, lady-in-waiting, relationship, waiting, poetry, poet, poem, tom mclaughlin, letter to the editor, poetry, poet, writing, foley, essay, james simmons, brian moore and the fallacy of realism, ulster writers, lonely passion of judith hearne, the feast of lupercal, the emperor of ice cream, the luck of ginger coffey, an answer from limbo, i am mary dunne, poem, paul muldoon, the man without a name, to clint eastwood, self, man, solitude, scarecrow, alone, poem, seamus heaney, the last mummer, ireland, culture, mime, entertainment, dispossession, change, poem, john hewitt, remembering itzik manger and a conversation in edinburgh years ago, poetry, jew, jewish, yiddish, marc chagall, fiction, john morrow, balubu, bar, pub, drinking, drink, wine, alcohol, biddy, poem, michael foley, last moments of the bed-sitter king, bed-sit, survival, death, poem, gavin ewart, peacetime, death, life, war, burial, ulster artists, brian ballard, release, george mccann, the meeting, ian lawrenson, two typists looking out of window, brian ferran, colmcille’s bird, fiction, michael stephens, the long weekend, conversation, relationship, body, intimacy, sleep, poem, peter fallon, “where he is,” weather, forecast, sun, prediction, faith, belief, death, poem, anthony weir, when blind men weep, ailment, disability, sensation, poetry, senses, poem, brendan kennelly, the swimmer, shannon, water, river, swimming, body, exercise, poem, brendan kennelly, old poet’s late-night story, erotic, rural, gander, sex, woman, poem, frank ormsby, regional, nature, landscape, mountain, rural, city, secret, home, place, review, michael richards, the strange world of belfast theatre, o’casey, the plough and the stars, synge, the playboy of the western world, shakespeare, romeo and juliet, poem, robert greacen, witne…

HU May - Oct 76
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Rumens, Morrow, Harvey, Paulin, Skinner, Warner, McMullan, Stuart, Sommer, Purflitt, Carson, Foley, Johnston, Jude the Obscure, Cover by JAMM
coverage: 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,…

HU May - Sept 77
description: 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.
coverage: 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…

HU May 1969
description: Editor: James Simmons. Contributors: Terry, Devine, McWhirter, Heaney, Ewart, MaGahern, Simmons, McLaughlin, Foley, Muldoon, Berlind, Stevenson, Kirkpatrick, Foley, Stevens, McLaughlin.
coverage: editorial, michael foley, the art of not caring, writers, writing, society, outsider, detachment, literature, isolation, art for art’s sake, morality, motivation, ambition, poem, translation, arthur terry, nocturnal dialogue, spanish, luis cernuda, devil, god, man, deam, sleep, morning, life, death, age, aging, temptation, words, legacy, poem, translation, arthur terry, the date, spanish, luis cernuda, foreign, bird, dawn, morning, autumn, journey, travel, poem, translation, limbo, spanish, luis cernuda, empty, furniture, age, old, poet, poetry, death, essay, donal o’kane, festival ‘69, a mild exercise in spleen, guiness book of records, 1968, 1969, theatre, performance, drama, poem, robert devine, faith-healer, god, sin, healer, health, religion, spirit, poem, seamus heaney, in an airport coach, travel, road, traffic, new jersey, usa, america, spring, city, urban, waste, manhattan, new york, subway, transport, poem, gavin ewart, ella mi fu rapita! die liebe dauert oder dauert nicht - brecht, relationship, relationships, love, break-up, romance, boredom, lover, end, ending, fiction, john mcgahern, hearts of oak and bellies of brass, work, labour, construction, building, concrete, dig, literature, education, shakespeare, money, irish, identity, name, names, prostitute, poem, james simmons, artist’s wives, wife, marriage, relationship, support, write, writer, blake, william blake, duty, poem, james simmons, what will you do love, ambition, artist, writer, wife, support, marriage, love, relationship, relationships, poem, tom mclaughlin, a married sister speaks, children, family, garden, weeds, growth, time, marriage, nature, poem, tom mclaughlin, to begin again, to myself, poetry, poet, writing, writer, time, summer, past, memory, experience, imagination, fiction, the revolutionaries, michael foley, revolution, revolutionary, rebellion, anarchy, socialism, socialist, police, students, student, worker, worker’s rights, politics, poem, paul muldoon, january, winter, begi…

HU May 68
subject: Honest Ulsterman May 1968
description: Editor: James Simmons. Contributors: Smith, Kennelly, Stewart, Hewitt, Mahon, Hearsum, Price Turner, Stephens, Simmons, Lewis, O'Malley, Lyric Players Theatre, Ewart, Middleton.
source: The Honest Ulsterman 1968 issues
publisher: TheHonest Ulsterman
date: May 1968
contributor: Stevie Smith, Brendan Kennelly, John D. Stewart, John Hewitt, Derek Mahon, John Hearsum, W. Price Turner, Michael Stephens, James Simmons, Peter Lewis, Mary O'Malley and the Lyric Players Theatre, Gavin Ewart, Colin Middleton
rights: All rights held by The Honest Ulsterman
format: PDF from Printed Edition
language: English
type: Literary Magazine
identifier: HU 1
coverage: Poem. Stevie Smith: A Soldier Dear To Us, War, World War 1; Poem. Brendan Kennelly: The Stones: Children, Stones, Cruelty, Fear, Elder Abuse. Poem. Brendan Kennelly: A Man in a Yellow Oilskin. Connemara, Loch Corrib, Nature, Rowing. Prose: John D. Stewart. Let us be Human. Religion. Sectarianism. Humanism. Poem: John Hewitt: From the Tibetan. Lamas, Ulster, Northern Ireland, Bureaucracy, Politics, Government. Poem. Derek Mahon. A Dying Art, Plug Tobacco. Poem Derek Mahon. Ecclesiastes. Religion. Protestant. Ulster. Northern Ireland. Antrim. Prose: John Hearsum. The Running of Things. Flat buying renting, repairs. Poem. W. Price Turner. Full Supporting Coverage. Movies. Death. Satire. Religion. Poem. Michael Stephens. The Fear. Sex. Masochism. Ice. Women. Poem. Michael Stephens. Mistake. Blood. Cut. Nicked. Shaving. Poem. Michael Stephens. Necessity. Love. Need. Sex. Defecation. Poem. Michael Stephens. Jokes. Relationships. Relationship Failure. Poem: The Case of the Cardboard Kodak Girl. Advertising. Sex. Lust. Interview. Interview. Michael Stephens meets Roger McGough. Poem: James Simmons. After Donald Davie. Beatniks, Belfast, Drinking Den, Hard Men, Experience, Regret. Future. Feature. Michael Stephens. Drugs v Drink. Peter Lewis. A Tale of a Turd. Satire. Sermon. Dean Swift. Article on Mary O'Malley and Lyric Theatre Belfast. Feature: The Use of History. W. Price Turner. Procrastination. Review. Reflections on the Poetry of Louis McNeice. Poem. Gavin Ewart. Epitaph. Women. Cooking. Sex. James Simmons. New Song. To be sung to Foggy Dew. Kensington Gardens Square. Love. Sex. Boredom. Illegitimacy. Loneliness. Thoughts for the Month. Quotes By Yeats, Chaucer, John Livingston, Lowes, Spinoza, Bob Dylan. Poem. Gavin

HU May 84
description: Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Szirtes, Curtis, Longley, Taylor, Raine, O’Driscoll, Muldoon, Bleakley, Foley, Tallis, Bennett, McDonald, Ewart, Found, Cody, Matthews, McGuckian, Adcock, Scammell, Rumens, Orpwood, McCarthy, Levett, Simpson, Smyth, Cassidy, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews: Allen, Elliott, Montrose, Andrews, Johnstone. Cover by James Allen.
coverage: poem, george szirtes, ruggieri’s entertainment, king, servant, entertainment, queen, fireworks, smoke, fire, poem, george szirtes, the birds complain, bird, seduction, seducing, performance, poem, george szirtes, a small girl swinging, childhood, child, play, swing, sensation, fear, excitement, joy, poem, simon curtis, cuttings, daily telegraph, the times, the people, vogue, fashion, society, craze, england, sussex, kent, lloyds, news, newspapers, poem, michael longley, maggie moore’s, second hand clothes, clothing, sandy row, jumble, belongings, rags, rag, second-hand, poem, ron taylor, jazz pub, dance, bar, music, possibility, optimism, relationships, poem, craig raine, the first lesson, return, silence, speech, veteran, war, trauma, home, cadbury’s flake, poem, ciaran o’driscoll, dogbark, dog, bark, sound, silence, rain, record, pet, poem, paul muldoon, the main-mast, huskies, dog, wolf, athambra, journey, ship new york, poem, paul muldoon, other women, lobster, women, tongue, poem, alan bleakley, tremedda farm, storm, weather, rain, fox, animals, hunting, hunt, chickens, meat, chicken, poem, michael foley, information retrieval, facts, data, information, sex, gossip, reality, knowledge, poem, michael foley, strictly no re-admission, daddy cool, infidelity, fling, adultery, bojangles, bar, nightclub, lust, desire, poem, raymond tallis, meta-sonnet to the dark lady, night, lust, relationship, music, absence, emptiness, poem, peter mcdonald, interiors, 1, time, sleep, dream, clock back, night, 2, talent, nightmares, relationship, past, memory, 3, looking back, love, loss, underground, blue, colour, drinking, drink, sadness, poem, peter bennett, funny man, surgery, dance, injury, laughter, disability, poem, gavin ewart, a godly undertaking, evelyn waugh, soul, mole, men, pen, strong, wrong, prayer, poem, gavin ewart, how to write a poem in the american style, poetics, poetry, enjambment, ampersand, rhythm, poem, found poem, errata, poetry, catalogue, occasional clue…

HU May/June 1970
description: Editors: Michael Foley/Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Foley, Montague, Parker, Squires, Stephens, McLaughlin, Parker, Vallely, Ormsby, Ewart, Weir, Matthew, Simmons, Goodall.
coverage: poem, michael foley, a prophet among his people, religion, purpose, prophecy, poem, michael foley, tina, home, relationship, travel, performer, poem, john montague, the fault, dr patrick mccartan, winston churchill, monument for a northern republican, tyrone, war, trauma, country, ireland, conflict, father, ii, the fault, injury, heritage, family, violence, iii, the sound of a wound, injury, pain, place, history, iv, the cage, brooklyn, car accident, memory, loss, fiction, extract from a novel, oh, oh, stewart parker, children, lust, desire, poor things, poem, geoffrey squires, a poem for protestants, border, king, irony, allegory, poem, michael stephens, railway to the river, journey, travel, landscape, loss, nature, train, poem, michael stephens, the dream king, relationship, change, intimacy, love, loss, dreaming, sleep, bed, poem, tom mclaughlin, a poetry circular, poet, poetry, life, ambition, age, career, youth, adolescence, aspiration, adult, adulthood, growing up, review, theatre, stewart parker, it’s a bad scene, mrs worthington, ross alexander, little mother, wherehouse la mama, the living theatre, john vallely, four paintings, the sligo musicians, young girl playing a flageolet, banish misfortune, the four musicians. essay, michael foley, getting off, sex, men, women, pride, dance, party, woman, intelligence, gender, poem, frank ormsby, hairy horseworm, horse-worm, insect, animal, life, size, nature, poem, gavin ewart, ‘woodland walk’, richmond park, sunday, 15th february, 1970, snow, weather, walk, russia, chekhov, cold, freezing, frozen, ice, poem, gavin ewart, the short essay on style, stephen spender, valley of the dolls, writing, writer, conversation, poem, gavin ewart, food, eating, animal, nature, flesh, death, essay, frank ormsby, the plays of brian friel, philadelphia, here I come, the loves of cass mcguire, lovers, poem, translation, anthony weir, irish, king suibine’s oratory, house, home, tree, forest, woods, nature, poem, translation, anthony…

HU May/June 1971
description: Note: No Mar/April issue. Editors: Michael Foley/Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Foley, Simmons, Morrow, Muldoon, Hogan, Daly, Newman, Mole, Montgomery, Mathews.
coverage: essay, michael foley, the ulster goldmine, fake concern, travel, northern ireland, troubles, sectarianism, the enlightenment machine, art, literature, poem, james simmons, marital sonnets, lust, sex, marriage, youth, desire, poet, work, money, job, unhappiness, companionship, relationship, romance, aspiration, domestic, home, wife, husband, family, conflict, relationships, letter, patric stevenson, w. r. rodgers, joe biggar, fiction, john morrow, the confessions of proinsias o’toole, under the starry plough, drugs, crime, prod, protestant, politics, rebellion, poem, paul muldoon, the pink tandem, cycling, bicycle, travel, war, poem, mibol zaritchy, four clerihews, clerihew, politics, politicians, west, john taylor, james chichester-clark, william craig, poem, james simmons, the summing up, relationship, love, body, bodies, sex, poem, arthur magennis, insights, grab you by the balls, poem, arthur magennis, faith, religion, virgin, virginity, prayer, st anthony, poem, frank ormsby, second childhood, sex, sperm, ovum, conception, poem, john mcmahon, four in brief, erection, arousal, reading, barrett, fart, limp, body, bodies, embarrass, embarrassment, public, poem, d. c. carr, triangle, love, affair, marriage, death, poem, lying in, abortion, bed, pregnancy, accident, poem, on the critics of a much abused poet, criticism, critic, defence, poetry, poem, michael foley, dichotomy, fame, toupee, wig, poem, it is grim, life, spirit, love, sad, poem, roland david emma, the inhabitants of the island, joyce, ireland, irish, rain, poem, advice to northern writers, northern ireland, ulster, derry, belfast, omagh, castlederg, strabane, writing, poem, e. v. scrotum, the gift of tongues, sex, cunt, speaking, speech, poem, lionheart, heart, bravery, irony, poem, adjusted, body, poem, parsons, prayer, religion, poem, singular, alone, solitude, eating, restaurant, poem, teasmade, tea, morning, poem, tom matthews, pop festival, medicine, health, stoke-on-trent, injury, illness, sicknes…

HU No.89 Summer 90
description: Editors: Ruth Hooley, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Gallagher T., Meyer, Lynch, Gallagher P, Lawson, Robertson, Uttley, Lykiard, Rice, Byron, Millar, Dunmore, McMillan, Keery, Lysaght, Greene, Tamplin, Foley, Scammell, Dawe, Drisceoil, Hughes, Craig, Hermana, Turner, Clyde, Topping. Cover by Ross Wilson.
coverage: poem, tess gallagher, legend with sea breeze, bells, death, sound, blue mountain road, winter, loss, mourning, horse, poem, tess gallagher, crazy menu, food, eating, loss, meal, love, poem, tess gallagher, thieves at the grave, confucian, flowers, gift, poem, bruce meyer, mangroves, wood, nature, life, living, ship, ocean, sea, dream, dreaming, fire, poem, bruce meyer, clothing, clothes, bodies, absence, memory, home, poem, thomas lynch, custody, divorce, separation, family, children, parenthood, grief, law, poem, the lives of women, feminism, inequality, female, babies, oppression, society, sexism, poem, howard wright, the interview, work, job, family, stress, poem, sam burnside, let the record show, records, identity, behaviour, rights, poem, sam burnside, the spade, digging, dig, lever, throw, poem, patrick gallagher, july drought, rossmore, animals, night, moon, dowra, farms, farm, guinness, rural, farmers, poem, patrick gallagher, in memory of philip larkin, d. 3 december 1985, poet, death, verse, writer, poem, sarah lawson, canto mcmlxxxviii (kalendae junii), ezra pound, pen, 1988, poetry, poetry, writing, satire, nonsense, poem, sarah lawson, camping above lake komorze, western poland, pines, trees, sunset, red, lake, colour, light, nature, july, poem, sarah lawson, measuring the net, tennis, summer, adolescence, teens, sport, sports, nostalgia, memory, poem, carole robertson, mother, mississippi, parent, relationship, telegram, mrs beeton, waterloo, essay, the hu business section, beckett: a reading by jude the obscure, samuel beckett, more pricks than kicks, murphy, dublin, surrealism, che sciagura, watt, mercier and camier, first love, krapp’s last tape, molloy, the unnameable, how it is, company, poem, bridget uttley, courty correspondent, royalty, royal, wedding, cathedral, prince, poem, bridget uttley, greenwich time, friendship, youth, party, dole, money, work, benefits, flat, home, poem, bridget uttley, cultivation, harebells, pansies, garden, plants,…