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
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 circus ring - Michael McLaverty 4. Death of an old lady - Louis MacNeice 5. Carrick revisited - Louis MacNeice 6. After hours - Brian O'Nolan 7. The weakness - Michael J. Murphy 8. Follower - Seamus Heaney 9. Scaffolding - Seamus Heaney 10. The spit of the Ould Da - Robert Harbinson 11. A tanner a time - John D. Stewart 12. The swathe uncut - John Hewitt 13. The first corncrake - John Hewitt 14. A vocation - Brian Moore 15. The funeral - Maurice Leitch 16. Stormy night - W. R. Rodgers 17. Armagh - W. R. Rodgers 18. Farewell to a kid - Anthony C. West 19. The new Scythe Blade - Jack McQuoid 20. Wheat - Jack McQuoid 21. The march morning - John Irvine 22. F. E. McWilliam - George McCann 23. Second letter to an irish novelist - Roy McFadden 24. Tom Hunter - Roy McFadden 25. Lucinda and the birds - Joseph Tumelty 26. Ballad of a marriage - James Simmons 27. In memoriam - Michael Longley 28. The oddity - Isobel McColl 29. Like Dolmens - John Montague 30. New boots - Joyce Cary 31. The casualty meditates - Stewart Parker 32. Revisiting Belfast - Robert Greacen 33. Among the ruins - Brian Friel 34. Neilly and the fir tree - John O'Connor 35. In Carrowdore Graveyard - Derek Mahon 36. White birds and black roses for you - Seamus Deane 37. The house in Jail Square - Benedict Kiely 38. The black north - Sean McMahon 39. Contributors
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