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
The water-carrier - John Montague 4. The poetry of Tagore - Roger McHugh 5. Reflections on Megarrity - Roy McFadden 6. Three - Dora Murphy 7. The Cobbler's song - The Poetry Editor 8. The nose of the Abbess - Oswell Blakeston 9. The longest campaign - John Hewitt 10. Shakespeare's rival - John Morley 11. Letters to the editor - Sybil le Brocquy, R. J. Wathen, Herbert O. Mackey
Sally - Patrick Boyle 4. The bread god - John Montague 5. The brothers - Redmond O'Hanlon 6. The influence of natural objects - James Simmons 7. Poems - Michael Longley 8. Fond mother - Mary Lavin 9. Death bed - Thomas Kinsella 10. A stone-age figure - Derek Mahon 11. The white flower - Hugh Bredin 12. Robert Kennedy - James Scott 13. Farmer - Geoffrey Squires 14. Jude - Elizabeth Walsh 15. Deborah Browne: an appreciation - T. P. Flanagan 16. The poet as watcher - Alan Warner 17. Kavanagh's arrival - Tom McGurk 18. Poems - Glyn Hughes 19. The poetry of John Hewitt - Seamus Heaney
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
