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
Wedding day - Thomas Kinsella 4. W. B. Yeats and William Morris - Peter Faulkner 5. Casement: the public record office manuscripts - Roger McHugh 6. The wake - Isobel McColl 7. Book review - Richard Kell 8. May Morton memorial poetry competition - Nelson Browne, John Montague, Roy McFadden, E. Letitia Harris 9. The novelist king - Sangro, Duke of Redonda (Oswell Blakeston) 10. Review - The Poetry Editor
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 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
Irish politics and O'Casey's theatre - Seamus Deane
The present state of french drama - Evelyn Robson 4. Hunger and thirst - Christopher Murray 5. The current theatre in Scandinavia - L. A. Muinzer 6. Drama in the two Germanies - Hagal Mengel 7. Theatre in Canada - John Orrell 8. Soviet theatre to-day - W. H. B. MacBride 9. Drama in the universities - James O'Malley 10. Drama in education - John M. Malone 11. Finance and the theatre - Michael Bevan 12. Northern Ireland - Kenneth Jamison 13. Postscript - 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
