Oh! Death where is thy sting-aling-aling? - Patrick Boyle
Poems 4. Lady Chatterley's lover - Philip Thody 5. The potato gatherers - Brian Friel 6. Fog in the irish sea - Denis Ireland 7. Reviews - The Poetry Editor
Poems 4. Memory's Murphy Maker - Brian Coffey 5. The fortune teller - Thomas MacIntyre 6. Little Chandler and Byron's "first poem" - Maurice Harmon 7. Young Magdalen and the pharisee - Thomas Kilroy
Land without stars - Sean McMahon 4. Poem - John Montague 5. Break-down - Eugene McCabe 6. Irish immigrant culture in New Zealand - R. P. Davis 7. Work in progress - Maurice Leitch 8. Contributors
The Tollund man - Seamus Heaney 4. Excerpt from a play - Derek Mahon 5. Farewell to the anglo-irish - Andrew Whittaker 6. Poems - Frank Ormsby 7. Resurgam - Nicholas Round 8. Barricades - Francis Mulhern 9. The family next door - John Hewitt 10. An open letter - John D. Stewart 11. The coasters - John Hewitt 12. Now and then - Brian Moore 13. A marcher looks back - Eoin Sweeney 14. From a sequence for Ulster - Tom McGurk 15. A googy-eyed view - Michael Foley 16. The old coach road - Seamus Deane 17. From no truck - Michael Friel 18. Poems - Michael Foley 19. Betting in Derry - Seamus Deane 20. A new siege - John Montague
Editorial 2. Armand Gatti: playwright and film director
Armand Gatti: theatre without walls by Joseph Long 4. Exemplary dramatists: Yeats and O'Casey by Seamas Deane 5. Contempory drama in Japan: a report by Kazuo Hayakawa 6. Poetry: Roger Conover 7. Poetry: Seamus Heaney 8.Poetry: Conleth O'Connor 9. Poetry: T. D. Redshaw 10.Poetry: Richard Ryan 11.Poetry: Patric Stevenson 12. Visions of self and society: the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh by John Nemo
A country walk in may - John Hewitt 4. Yeats and the modern theatre - David R. Clark 5. A goose among the swans - Maurice Farley 6. Men from the fields - The Poetry Editor 7. Outward bound - John Montague 8. Songs of the Irish - Sean Neeson 9. By the waters of Babylon - The Poetry Editor 10. Cork Film Festival - Sean Neeson 11. Letter to the editor - Letitia Fairfield
Poetry 4. Brendan Behan - Augustine Martin 5. A great big Lollipop - Richard Kell 6. Poetry 7. The metal man - Patrick Boyle 8. Yeats, Ireland and Ezra Pound - Peter Faulkner