What stood in the post office? - John Jay 4. The plays of Yeats through Beckett coloured glasses - Ruby Cohn 5. "Theatre business" - Ronald Ayling 6. The dream itself - Mary O'Malley 7. An idea of music - Raymond Warren 8. The japanese Noh, a survey - Pronoti Baksi 9. Yeats and the japanese theatre - Shotaro Oshima 10. The rhythm and music of Noh drama - Frederick Kalister
Bridges and blossoms by the river - Jack McQuoid 4. Two artists - John Hewitt 5. An afternoon with the artist - Leland Bardwell 6. Nadezhda Mandelstam - Leland Bardwell 7. The writer and the troubles - Seamus Deane 8. Guilt - Diarmaid O'Suilleabhain 9. Wheels slowly turning - John Montague 10. Thunder and after - Sean Lucy 11. Fear - Eleanor Murray 12. Meditations on the suspension of stormont - Shaun Traynor 13. The politics of Yeats's theatre - Denis Donoghue 14. Duel - J.J. Coughlan 15. Bargains in barren places - Augustus Young 16. Song to cait - Gregory O'Donoghue 17. The daughters singing to their father - Paul Durcan 18. Dr. Plantagenet Higgins - Paul Durcan 19. Boxing the fox - Pearse Hutchinson 20. European prayer - Pearse Hutchinson 21. George Shiels-Playwright at work - David Kennedy 22. Lucy Gray - Roy McFadden 23. A young lag - Roy McFadden 24. A bit of skirt in a taxi - Joseph Biggar 25. Neighbour - Robert O'Donoghue 26. I. M. Cesar Vallejo - Michael Smith 27. Such good friends - Ita Daly 28. Origins - Frank Ormsby 29. Succession - William Peskett 30. Roma - Eugene McCabe 31. St. John Ervine-biographical note - John Boyd
Editorial - John Hewitt 2. A lady from Limerick - Donal Casey
The love game: gateposts - Medbh McGuckian 4. Gambler's chances - William Wiser 5. Sancto's dog - Roy McFadden 6. W. B. Yeats in the theatre - Gertrude Patterson 7. Variations on a theme - John Hewitt 8. The test - John O'Connor 9. To Margaret Anderson Smyth (nee Stevenson) 1841-1910 - Patric Stevenson 10. From 1979 to 1596 and back. A look at Edmund Spenser's "a view of the present state of Ireland" - Rene' Fre'chet 11. Reunion: crows: rabbits - W. R. Hutchinson 12. The old firm - Roy McFadden 13. Mother of sorrows: a small blind street - Aidan Murphy 14. Patrick Kavanagh in Belfast - J. B. Kilfeather 15. Holiday 2: Belfast April '79 - Jack Pakenham 16. Daybreak - Richard Telford 17. Candles: but for your gifts: journeys end - Norman Dugdale 18. Bleak afflatus! A review of "Poets from the north of Ireland". Edited Frank Ormsby - Michael Allen
Editorial 2. John Hewitt: honest Ulsterman - Alan Warner
A secular imagination - Terence Brown 4. No dusty pioneer - Roy McFadden 5. Sonnet (an unpublished poem) - John Hewitt 6. For the record - Roy McFadden 7. Grand old man - Roy McFadden 8. J. H. - Robert Graecen 9. Spiritual maverick - John Montague 10. Outside Armagh jail - John Montague 11. Cavaliers and roundheads - James Simmons 12. No rootless colonist - Paddy Devlin 13. Ancestral voices - Martin Mooney 14. Folly - Martin Mooney 15. Weimar - Martin Mooney 16. A far cry: Alfred R. Wallace in Para - Martin Mooney 17. Recollections - John D. Stewart 18. Remembering John Hewitt - John Kilfeather 19. A tribute - Rene Fre'chet 20. The poetry of John Hewitt - Seamus Heaney 21. John Hewitt, Committee man/no! - Ciaran McKeown 22. The new boy - Stephen Gilbert 23. Bedtime - Stephen Gilbert 24. The place of The street in John Boyd's collected plays - Leo MacNamara
Elba - Mary Beckett 2. A French translator listens to Yeats - Rene Frechet
Armand Salacrou - Colin Radford 4. The Kalevala-its next fifty years - Louis A. Muinzer 5. Stone - George McWhirter 6. Man of the Russian theatre - John Boyd 7. Poems - Ralph Meredith, Norman Dugdale 8. Whatsername and La Contessa - E. A. Markham 9. Green grass - John McClelland 10. Profiles of Sean O'Casey - Ronald Ayling 11. Alas, they scorned to combine - Robert Welch