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
Glass grass - Padraic Fiacc 2. Fields and kerbstones (preface to an Autosnap) - Roy McFadden
Tha quarry - Elaine Ford 4. And follow Philip Sousa - Liam Murphy 5. June solstice - Kathleen Gilbert 6. Father Damien where are you? - David Marcus 7. Sean Juan - Jack Holland 8. Excavations - Maurice Leitch 9. A Jarapiri poem - Jon Silkin 10. Three cars - Dannie Abse 11. Earlier days - Sean McDermott 12. Ways - George McWhirter 13. 12:05 p.m. Belfast (1941) - George McWhirter 14. Swallows on cave hill - Dennis Kelly 15. Pigeons - Kevin Dowling 16. The raising of the Morrigu - Maureen Duffy 17. On two poems by Seamus Heaney - Maureen Duffy 18. In adversity be ye Steadfast - Patrick Boyle 19. Charles Olson: some aspects of his poetry - Kathleen Gilbert 20. Prisoner - Robert O'Donoghue 21. Sean O'Casey a portrait - Breon O'Casey 22. Ernest Blythe and the abbey - Tomas McAnna 23. Fleadh - John F. Deane 24. Mathematician - Gregory O'Donoghue 25. Moons - Gregory O'Donoghue 26. Cemetery, musuem, exile - Aidan Higgins 27. Names - Gerald Dawe 28. Andersonstown - Michael Brophy 29. For Tom and Ann, leaving - Michael Brophy 30. The birth of a black anthology - Padraic Fiacc 31. The no good bye - Padraic Fiacc 32. Walt Whitman. The poet as wound-dresser - Louis A. Muinzer
Editorial 2. Forrest Reid memorial - E. M. Forster
Interpreter of youth - John Sparrow 4. The early novels - John Bryson 5. Devotion to greek literature - George Huxley 6. Brian Westby - John McGahern 7. Visions and dreams - Mary Bryan 8. Forrest Reid on Yeats - James Simmons 9. Crying for Elysium - Brian Taylor 10. Illustrators of the sixties - Kenneth Jamison 11. The autobiographies - George Buchanan 12. Letters from Forrest Reid - S. Knox Cunningham 13. A successful man - Stephen Gilbert 14. My first meeting with Forrest Reid - Robin Perry 15. A note on the garden god - Robin Perry 16. Notes from a journal - John Boyd
Introduction - John Boyd 2. Yeats and the irishry - D. E. S. Maxwell
Synge's western worlds - Seamus Deane 4. The theatre and Padraic colum - Zack Bowen 5. Sean O'Casey: fifty years after "the plough" - Roger McHugh 6. From beginning to date: some thoughts on the plays of Samuel Beckett - Alec Reid 7. Sunglasses; dog; silver - Matthew Sweeney 8. The scholar at thirty - Pol Breatnac 9. Southern comfort. Confraternity lesson. Scarecrow - John Liddy 10. Foetus papypaceous. Brigid's day, Belfast 1975 - Padraic Fiacc 11. Song for Peter, walking away - Robert Greacen 12. Midnight - Patrick Galvin 13. All for Hecuba; not in the brochure - Norman Dugdale 14. Self-generation; light - Roy McFadden 15. Death-days - Elizabeth Miller
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
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
Introduction: the longing for modernity - Seamus Deane 2. Poetry and the avoidance of nationalism - Vincent Buckley
Sweeney astray (a translation) - Seamus Heaney 4. The changing gaelic tradition - Sean O'Tuama 5. A rum cove, a stout cove (poem) - Tom Paulin 6. Passages (a short story) - Anne Devlin 7. "Befitting emblems of adversity": Seamus Heaney, the poet and the troubles - Timothy Kearney 8. Celebrations, the equestrian (poem) - Desmond McAleer 9. Structuralism and the decomposition of political positions (poem) - Niall Crowley 10. A waste of words - Hugh Maxton
Introduction: imageries from a sombre loom - Gerald Dawe 2. George Shiels: the enigmatic playwright - Daniel J. Casey
Three poems: I love you intently, The moose, The ram - Robert Bly 4. Poetry and politics in revolutionary Belfast - James W. Flannery 5. Two poems: history lesson, humming birds - Seamus Deane 6. Short story: wish you to go or wish you to stay - Tom MacIntyre 7. Sean O'Casey: the autobiographies - James Simmons 8. Poem: the round pond - Roy McFadden 9. Coming to terms with Jack B. Yeats - John Hewitt 10. Poem: Coleman to Coleman - Coleman Barks 11. Poem: Cavalier and smiling girl - Eamon Grennan 12. Synge and Ireland: the solitude of the artist in "The playboy of the western world" - Re'ne Fre'chet 13. Rise above: memories of Tyrone Guthrie - John Boyd 14. Address at opening of Annaghmakerrig - Brian Friel
Atlantic crosscurrents - John Boyd and Dan Casey 2. Henry James in Rye - H. Montgomery Hyde
Short story: oldfashioned - John McGahern 4. Anno Montague - Mark J. Waelder 5. Three poems: A flowering absence; The locket; A Christmas card - John Montague 6. Two poems: Dublin suite: homage to James Joyce; At drumcliffe churchyard; County Sligo - John Logan 7. Short story: the black diamond - Elizabeth Cullinan 8. Algonquin woods sketches - Bob Callahan 9. Robert Kelly: an appreciation - Patrick H. Meanor 10. Four poems: Oil of excess; Untitled; The cry of I; A woman from Connaught - Robert Kelly 11. Three poems: Ool about to proclaim a parable; Thanksgiving; Epigrams - X. J. Kennedy 12. Short story: the secrets of creative love -William Kennedy 13. James T. Farrell's irish and irish-american writing - Dennis Flynn 14. A protestant childhood - Diana Hyde
