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poem, carol rumens, commuter poems, 1, train, travel, time journey, work, winter, 2, landscape, window, railway, book, reading, place, 3, ireland, poem, carol rumens, aubade for middle age, sex, love, gatwick, domestic, womb, trauma, home, habit, lust, poem, carol rumens, in a room, princess, kingdom, woman, enclosure, poem, carol rumens, the great silkie of sule skerrie, orkadian ballad, sea, shore, cliff, sand, wandering, sadness, poem, carol rumens, sylvia plath: a dramatic monologue, atlantis, patriarch, sensation, emotion, earth, tigers, marriage, words, fiction, john morrow, o’fuzz, work, van, armpit, corpse, police barracks, death, poem, francis harvey, at ards, pheasants, nature, sensation, bluebells, chestnuts, love, poem, tom paulin, provincial narratives, mother, father, arum lilies, aunt, white, family, mirror, reflection, self, poem, tom paulin, fin de siecle, landscape, lake, garden, love, desire, kiss, purity, poem, tom paulin, on the other side, moth people, dockside, port, harbour, coast, edge, boats, messages, poem, knute skinner, two sentences, father, mother, relationships, poem, val warner, officials, names, rackman, mother hubbard, pariahs, place, poem, val warner, sing cuccu!, summer, midsummer, st john’s eve, beginning, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, luis cernuda, let me keep this voice, pampa, moonlight, speech, drowning, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, federico garcia lorca, spinster at mass, incense, church, religion, black, woman, virginia, fiction, francis stuart, extract from a novel in progress, drive, journey, car, four seasons hotel, a. d. p. belbury, abortion, bar, food, eating, poem, jason sommer, in single beds, for bernadine, bed, intimacy, relationship, love, dreams, sharing, touch, night, sleep, poem, jason sommer, dear s., new york, vermont, separation, distance, letter, relationship, death, poem, jason sommer, evidences of departure, pockets, buttons, clothing, time, leaving, loss, winter, poem, jason sommer, coal, fire, home, hearth, fuel, family, night, cold, winter, poem, george parfitt, litany, teacher, teaching, school, fear, anxiety, poem, george parfitt, incident, london, coach, travel, transport, bus, touch, bodies, caress, stranger, encounter, poem, malcolm carson, bus-stop in piazza san lorenzo, florence, rome, church, building, italy, san lorenzo, architecture, fiction, michael foley, the home-town bust, 1969, march, police, streets, violence, conflict, hanging, punishment, incarceration, writer, writing, fiction, fred johnston, george, killing, slaughter, slaughterer, the ship bar, drinking, trotting, race, horses, horses, guilt, drunk, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, jazz, impressionism, debussy, music, duke ellington, louis armstrong, luis russell, melody, billie holiday, coleman hawkins, whitney balliett, review, john cronin, sean o’faolain, foreign affairs and other stories, review, james simmons, the credible dancing montague, a slow dance, john montague, review, james simmons, gentle mysteries, man lying on a wall, michael longley, review, james simmons, good man, richard, high island, richard murphy, review, james simmons, recent reading, francis stuart, redemption,
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poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, strato, XII, 216, sex, penis, erection, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, skythinos, XII, 22, love, desire, lust, misery, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, strato, XII, 227, beauty, lust, distraction, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, markos argentarios, v, 105, desire, bliss, heaven, taste, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, markos argentarios, ix, 554, heraclea, cocks, sex, oral sex, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, theokritos, ix, 599, anakreon, statue, memorial, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, markos argentarios, vii, 403, pimp, orgy, prostitutes, sex, chastity, grave, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, x, 116, marriage, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, xi, 414, destruction, hedony, pleasure, sex, win, gout, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, ascelpiades or poseidippos, v, 202, delphine, brothel, sex, prostitution, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, v, 200, priapus, lust, sex, nakedness, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, v, 201, goddess of love, dawn, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, rufinos, v, 94, goddess, body, appearance, beauty, love, admiration, poem, translation, michael kelly, the greek anthology, anonymous, v, 82, quickie, foreplay, sex, poem, michael draper, passion shows, clothing, song, singing, life, white, black, red, colour, green, visions, poem, michael draper, mr earthbound’s saturday night service, someone who abides, evening, god, religion, sex, desire, abide with me, poem, john wilkes, fragment, longing, love, separation, wholeness, poem, tony flynn, town, stone, death, brother, life, funeral, childhood, infant, baptism, children, poem, tony flynn, citizens, society, city, song, singing, poem, tony flynn, schiele in prison, egon schiele, artist, imprisonment, incarceration, light, mirror, beauty, snail, separation, distance, birds, painter, poem, duncan forbes, national anthem, vietcong, america, usa, society, fashion, morality, united nations, deterioration, poem, paul muldoon, lord hawhaw, war, wife, english, marriage, munitions, haw-haw, william joyce, world war 2, nazi propaganda, radio, broadcasting, germany, poem, william scammell, ballad of social mobility, 1939, comfort, home, love, work, travel, experience, sixties london, society, poem, jem poster, september: wasps, insects, death, bodies, dirt, poem, alan peacock, stone gods, rock, history, past, geological, geology, fjord, magheraroarty strand, borrowdale, water, liquid, memory, relationship, poem, ciaran carson, smithfield, books, remembering, memory, undertaker, communion, church, loss, childhood, poem, tess gallagher, disappearances in the guarded sector, childhood, past, conflict, dream, return, remembering, memory, poem, tess gallagher, ever after, death, hair, memory, rain, alive, living, poem, michael stephens, two trees, apple blossom, appearance, beauty, ugliness, couple, poem, robert wiljer, the ferris wheel, movement, sensation, thrills, excitement, fair, fairground, fear, poem, michael braidwood, snow pages, white, meat, hunting, hunter, meat, cold, ice, fiction, john morrow, walk tall if you dare, height, growth, belfast, shankill, police, work, linen, ian paisley, troubles, bomb, poem, kate allen, vacuum cleaner, sound, scrap, dirt, cleaning, noise, non-fiction, george buchanan, the umbra, pages from an unpublished autobiography, the times, work, news, editing, writing, novel, poetry, london, diary, the spanish holiday, broadcasting, a. e., george russell, mysticism, journalism, mairaux, germany, 1937, drama critic, criticism, europe, news chronicle, war, gabo, constructivist, 1940, the soldier and the girl, poem, seamus heaney, september song, autumn, nature, rain, ending, john field, nocturnes, raindrops, music, change, poem, tom paulin, a september rising, beech, leaves, trees, morning, autumn, soldiers, names, memory, spirit, sky, poem, tom paulin, inishkeel parish church, sunday, congregation, o absalom, lessons, religion, sea, relief, learning, poem, tom paulin, a just state, law, control, justice, institution, public, society, a state of justice, poem, tom matthews, side-show, niagara, waterfall, falls, tourism, christ, nature, honeymoon, wilderness, twelfth night, stratford ontario, shakespeare, country, north america, tourist, camp poundmaker, erewhon, native american, chief, weeping, sadness, deserters, deseronto, canada, immigrants, politics, apolitical, conversation, trinkets/brantford, indian, native american, gift shop, holiday, serpent mounds/ rice lake, indian, native american, death, past, exhibition, exhibit, tourism, igopogo/ lake simcoe, monster, local, folklore, visiting, visitors, PS, photographs, camera, stoney rapids, travel, whalemeat, relief, whale meat, coast, inland, poem, andrew waterman, stepping westward, donegal, wordsworth, creeslough, west, ireland, muckish, landscape, errigal, poisoned glen, ruins, wilderness, nature, stone, mountains, poem, andrew waterman, hiatus, pause, water, sea, departure, leaving, shore, travel, poem, andrew waterman, intimation, death, family, childhood, garden, time, from the other country, poem, patrick king, mother, death, mourning, sadness, loss, childhood, dark, song, ending, poem, patrick king, central mental hospital, building, enclosure, illness, mental health, poem, patrick king, installations, night, runway, cove, coast, island, poem, pamela lewis, kenwood, house, building, moving in, head, personification, poem, pamela lewis, stocktaking, rural, nature, urban, illness, ill, winter, animals, squirrels, owls, adapting, learning, solitude, belonging, fiction, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, ulster, northern ireland, heritage, farset and 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poem, john cassidy, fires, moor fire, destruction, orange, watching, smoke, gorse, heather, barn fire, emergency, red, flame, firemen, ruin, danger, rural, city fire, urban, house, water, spectacle, element, poem, john cassidy, the hate-plant, plant, growth, garden, germination, autumn, care, nurture, evening, leisure, hate, work, poem, john cassidy, summer, season, blue sky, heat, warmth, neighbours, poem, robert wijer, the beer garden, drinking, wine, dionysius, passion, freedom, poem, kate allen, the snow queen, kay, cold, ice, spitzbergen, power, perversion, eternity, gerda, spring, flow, river, time, snow, poem, vernon scannell, dylan thomas country, place, rural, seasons, summer, winder, weather, spring, autumn, joy, pleasure, dance, nature, poem, vernon scannell, villanelle: of love and music, language, expression, communication, affection, romance, words, poem, andrew motion, no news from the old country, vermont, past, memory, place, wilderness, usa, america, distance, 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seamus deane, epiphany, church, mass, religion, catholicism, war, air-raid, shelter, religion, poem, seamus deane, the victim, for brian friel, language, change, place, foreign, native, conflict, violence, poem, seamus deane, a distant beach, childhood, manhood, ocean, sea, august, past, night, city, age, time, poem, seamus deane, decision, go away, leaving, waiting, whiskey, wait, going, poem, brendan kennelly, we are living, room, past, history, life, relationship, bodies, home, space, place, poem, brendan kennelly, a man in smoke remembered, memory, death, friend, friendship, age, aging, old, winter, dead, poem, piotr sommer, recently, translation, charles w. mignon, polish, relationship, drawing, sketching, portrait, poem, michael longley, oliver plunkett, his soul, head, execution, beheading, hair, body, his head, thinking, thought, brain, coffin, his body, saint, deterioration, archbishop of armagh, remains, corpse, poem, michael longley, elegy, january 1976, teeth, christ, father, dentures, false teeth, death, massacre, burial, poem, michael longley, ishi, mourning, survivor, survival, dialect, poem, john wilkes, february, bringing, taking, sensation, experience, spring, poem, john wilkes, happy love, laughter, laughing, romance, delight, sadness, emotion, poem, john wilkes, sleeping alone, mourning, solitude, night, dark, poem, john wilkes, the woodcutter’s daughter, trees, clearing, space, solitude, emptiness, poem, federico garcia lorca, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, the street of the dumb, girls, game, lovers, communication, poem, d. j. enright, from paradise illustrated, books, adam and eve, arts, milton, god, satan, paradise lost, fallen, hero, archangel, poem, victor price, yarrow, garden, plants, growth, flower, poem, padraic fiacc, saint coleman’s song for flight, for nancy and brigid, flown, death, fear, dead, plague, escape, bible, joseph, christ, poem, padraic fiacc, intimate letter 1973, deterioration, belfast, ruin, city, destruction, violence, conflict, bombs, family, poem, padraic fiacc, shadow, love, henry and mairead, childhood, waiting, restoration, grass, nights in the bad place, poem, des mcaleer, migrants and homers, birds, pigeons, swifts, departure, staying, home, poem, des mcaleer, the ferry, travel, transport, boat, journey, poem, craig raine, the ice cream man, the expression of the emotions in man & animals, charles darwin, childhood, food, eating, sensation, savage, procession, desire, taste, poem, roy mcfadden, the eiffel tower, tourism, landmark, architecture, paris, death of god, poem, roy mcfadden, the ards circuit, dog, wheels, life, death, word, vehicle, pet, poem, roy mcfadden, jean armstrong, scouts, childhood, touch, sensation, relationship, embarrassment, poem, roy mcfadden, from quail holdings, mary quail, family tree, genealogy, relations, individual, poem, roy mcfadden, stringer’s field, middle-age, aging, memory, boyhood, childhood, summer, neighbourhood, kerb, return, verifications, poem, francis harvey, the botany of love, lover, relationship, control, leaf, ladybirds, red, plants, nature, poem, francis harvey, the last drover, work, night, animals, rural, remains, legacy, loss, poem, francis harvey, more information for tourists, sea, shore, stone, wreck, corpse, death, bone, trauma, poem, hugh maxton, landscape with minute wildflowers, train, rail, railway, journey, nature, mussenden, sea, poem, ewart milne, his burden, erotic, sex, love, desire, solitude, alone, loss, king david, poem, ewart milne, yellow peril, gorse, injury, accident, plant, personification, violence, poem, ian gregson, the sick room, illness, father, whiteness, deterioration, erosion, colour, poem, ian gregson, crab lane village from new flats, manchester, whitsuntide, council estate, wars, past, fiction john morrow, chinese knackers, the bard, holy land, belfast, porterhouse blue, hangover, countess markievicz, fiction, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the 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poem, richard freeman, point to point, journey, camp, canterbury, details, sweets, insects, sensation, beer tent, drinking, jag, ladybird, poem, richard freeman, the egg trick, game, spectacle, yolk, sound, breaking eggs, nature, poem, robin glendinning, watching cricket, family, marriage, relationship, annoyance, television, poem, gavin ewart, kipling’s imperialism and ours, the light that failed, trade, empire, africa, sudan, war, history, poem, gavin ewart, the believers, women, bodies, breasts, buttocks, pleasure, holy, sex, love, god, poem, gavin ewart, the “o” level complaint, poetry, poets, studying, school, literature, cannon, enemies, understanding, eliot, hughes, plath, larkin, yeats, smith, graves, auden, thomas, betjeman, cicero, exam, poem, gavin ewart, seasonal double haikus: the mating season, sex, smoking, youth, girls jewish, cunts, tongues, oral sex, poem, g. w. ireland, a valediction forbidding mourning, love, loss, relationships, learning, life, poem, g. w. ireland, light?, oral, lips, touch, cigarettes, smoking, touch, loss, need, want, relationship, poem, tom phillips, suburbans, birds, perspective, humans, suburbs, suburbia, landscape, poem, david cooke, cows, friesians, shorthorns, angus, cattle, distance, fields, milking, animals, muck, poem, michael foley, adaptations from rimbaud, my bohemian life, muse, poetry, writing, september, the great bear, the green man, food, ham, eating, lust, sex, parochial house, cold sore, health, poem, michael foley, poor people in church, class, poverty, society, religion, mass, bishop, poem, george parfitt, brick-gatherer, bricks, derelict, wasteland, collecting, stones, poem, leo lavery, mapgie, magpie, bird, sound, flight, clatter, fiction, john morrow, from the confessions of proinsias o’toole, chapel fields, protestant, catholic, bin lids, poem, michael kinghan, pangur bawn, glass, relationship, waiting, loss, searching, old flame, desire, seeking, summoning, supernatural, parnassus, magic, winter, poem, michael kinghan, where are the modern medicis?, patronage, funding, arts, money, work, arts council, writing, tony o’reilly, pat quinn, poetry, poem, michael kinghan, i liked it better when we were poor, money, weath, poverty, companionship, relationship, sharing, intimacy, value, poem, michael kinghan, life on mars, walk, walking, glen, nature, tree, belfast lough, death, belfast, city, supremo, industry, bbc. b. b. c., poem, carol rumens, denunciation, maria goretti, saint, canonisation, women, nun, injury, martyrdom, poppy, violence, blood, bleeding, school, education, religion, catholicism, poem, carol rumens, unplayed music, crowd, drinking, party, piano, intimacy, cold, ice, snow, heart, love, desire, connection, atmosphere, night, poem, craig raine, happy birthday to you, nurse, hospital, age, elderly, veteran, imperial guard, mundane, food, body, illness, flesh, exposure, life, poem, craig raine, demolition with tobacco speck, james joyce, ulysses, deconstruction, death, dead, bricks, bulldozers, building site, poem, diana hendry, the rose and crown, hotel, inn, bed and breakfast, decoration, hospitality, poem, diana hendry, the state of affairs, adultery, relationships, marriage, love, lovers, motherhood, rembrandt, home, fear, poem, trevor mcmahon, renovations, house, home, interior, skin, body, monument, apples, dalmations, ending, poem, trevor mcmahon, mountaineers, weather, igloo, survival, travel, mountain, hike, nature, goat, poem, pamela lewis, to my daughter, threshold, change, leaving, loss, childhood, motherhood, growing up, poem, pamela lewis, to my son, growing up, boyhood, lighthouse, sea, parenthood, parenting, drama, odon von horvath, sladek the black militia man, an episode from the era of inflation, introduction, translation, victor price, germany, german, play, nazis, heil, war, jewish, jews, politics, pacifism, pacifist, fatherland, nationalism, soldiers, military, versailles, deutschland, europe, love, violence, murder, betrayal, revolution, humanity, poem, john cassidy, the reassurance, nature, pond, water, sky, image, still, stillness, fish, watching, movement, organisms, animals, perception, doubling, poem, john cassidy, contacts, failure, dark, night, owls, wood, forest, loss, searching, witch, tree, poem, ciaran carson, the patchwork quilt, family, fabric, textiles, home, craft, making, motherhood, memory, remnants, pattern, sewing, stitch, poem, ciaran carson, africa, mosquito net, fan, foreign, suffering, night, waiting, crusades, poem, ciaran carson, visitors, family, guests, visiting, bread and butter, eating, food, smell, home, sensation, childhood, photographs, poem, james simmons, at the post office, school, campbell college, aesthete, poet, money, love, derry, break-up, relationship, adulthood, change, poem, james simmons, the second time around, break-up, solitude, sex, curiosity, middle age, aging, poem, frank ormsby, the house by night, light, dusk, darkness, shadows, windows, poem, frank ormsby, where she lives, house, home, rooms, place, furniture, normality, poem, frank ormsby, a small town in ireland, place, past, touch, history, personal, poem, frank ormsby, love on the coast, kelly’s cove, desire, love, intimacy, darkness, bed, beach, sand, poem, frank ormsby, aftermath, emptiness, bare, empty, loss, blood, death, comfort, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, felicien rops, felix vallotton, jesuit, baudelaire, paris, illustration, art, review, george buchanan, an irish pastoral, peter waring, forrest reid, review, lorna reynolds, swift re-visited, jonathan swift, gulliver’s travels, ed, colin mckelvie, james miller, review, michael allen, horse-people and others, mules, paul muldoon, review, george buchanan, going back a little, verifications, roy mcfadden, review, john constable, a note on nostalgia, from the other country, andrew waterman,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Dunn, Kelly, Sheerin, Percy, McCarthy, Deane, McAuley, Kieran, Markam, Gurney, Wiljer, Prorok, June the Obscure: Cover by Geraldine Sweeney featuring: Anthony Weir, John Hewitt, Padraic Fiacc, , Ciaran Carson, John Morrow, James Simmons. Note: Blank Pages were part of the issue.
poem, douglas dunn, seen in the street, tory, britain, british, politics, poem, douglas dunn, new nature poetry, pastoral, poet, pantheist, folk, shepherds, romanticism, pretence, poem, douglas dunn, the poetry of perception, france, amends, reflection, thought, vision, watching, morning, poem, translation, skythinos, xii, 22, michael kelly, from the greek anthology, love, desire, lust, honey, looking, frustration, poem, translation, palladas, x, 45, michael kelly, from the greek anthology, pride, sex, bodies, incontinence, life, poem, joe sheerin, settling in, neighbourhood, unease, welcome, home, house, place, poem, joe sheerin, the lemon, love letter, invisible ink, secret, private, communication, poem, joe sheerin, burying a baby, death, infant, funeral, burial, coffin, cremation, loss, poem, margaret percy, testament, death, god, religion, suicide, loss, poem, thomas mccarthy, the builder of statues, from pablo neruda, faces, face, work, craft, art, sculpture, flesh, death, clay, poem, thomas mccarthy, rarest thyme, herbs, garden, herb, olitory, growth, basil, rosemary, lavender, loss, memorial, illness, poem, john f. deane, love : poem, love poem, wood, forest, ash tree, sex, conception, pregnancy, nature, poem, james j. mcauley, take up thy bed, childhood, father, plague, body, sensation, illness, sickness, death, lares, baths, recovery, pain, poem, martin kieran, moonlight, autumn, sensation, scent, moon, night, relationship, marriage, death, sadness, depression, poem, e. a. markham, next in line, bishop, emigration, national health, britain, foreign, community relations, society, change, poem, john gurney, the blind dog, rilke, sonette an orpheus, sight, blindness, pet, animal, empathy, loss, sadness, pity, pathos, pain, poem, robert wiljer, the fat girl does her dance, collingwood, blue room, leisure, beer, drinking, dancing, bar, lust, body, bodies, strip tease, nudity, nakedness, stripper, drama, leszek prorok, translation, marcus wheeler, polish, the slim voice, rowing, boat, canoe, accident, blind, blindness, disability, mines, minefield, injury, dreaming, dreams, vision, sight, romance, MISSING PAGES 38, 39, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, john garvin, james joyce, myles na gcopaleen, gopaleen, MISSING PAGES 58, 59, review, edna longley, review, t. bartlett, getting close to parnell, charles stewart parnell, f. s. l. lyons, charles stewart parnell, the man and his family, r. f. foster, review, james simmons, the uses of adversity, poisoned lands, john montague, review, margaret ward, not the complete maud, maud gonne, samuel levenson, review, bruce bidwell, daily bread, time enough, john hewitt, review, bruce bidwell, in search of the splintered couplets, rhyming weavers, john hewitt, review, alastair minnis, deliberate delinquency, a hole in the head, francis stewart, review, david montrose, richard the rhymer, the mind reader, richard wilbur, review, david montrose, decline and fall, 45 mercy street, anne sexton,
Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Mahon, Pound, Carson, Platonov, Coyle, Terry, Cook, Daly, Lagan, Ewart, Stuckenburg, Jude the Obscure, Newson, Cover John Middleton.
translation, poem, derek mahon, after nerval, french, satire, mute phenomena, objects, things, god, animation, life, translation, poem, derek mahon, after eluard, french, name, write, writing, old, inscription, inscribe, word, world, life, translation, omar s. pound, poem, amir khusrow dehlavi, persian, 13th century, dreams, night, wine, pouring, vines, translation, ciaran carson, early irish, homeless, bed, comfort, cold, poverty, wind, rain, weather, death, homelessness, translation, ciaran carson, early irish, housed, home, house, light, god, garden, outdoors, nature, translation, ciaran carson, welsh, eaves, winter, rain, milk, sound, weather, ice, roof, shelter, poem, michael longley, a small hotel, mind, consciousness, picnic, thought, memory, poem, michael longley, boogie, louisiana delta, dance, dancing, music, jimmy yancey, fiction, andrey platonov, the seventh man, russian, translation, alexander pavlov, michael pursglove, poverty, survival, life, concentration camp, war, red army, death, partisan, minsk, soldiers, execution, guns, poem, michael coyle, first child, baby, infant, clothing, neighbours, poem, pere gimferrer, opus 98, translation, arthur terry, catalan, music, brahms, suffering, poetry, words, art, fact, destruction, emotion, feelings, poem, stanley cook, klee: landscape with yellow birds, ekphrasis, painting, art, paul klee, trees, grass, satan, composition, poem, stanley cook, geriatric wing, elderly, old, age, institution, poem, padraig j. daly, departure, leaving, clothing, appearance, dignity, fragility, fragile, poem, padraig j. daly, sagart ii, farm, enclosure, border, privacy, trenches, separation, peace, protection, defence, self, place, poem, padraig j. daly, socialist, youth, change, deviation, religion, prayer, tradition, socialism, justice, poem, cathal lagan, all my warm beginnings, abraham, faith, god, syllogism, belief, religion, comfort, obedience, obey, poem, cathal lagan, metamorphosis, franz kafka, open door, animals, god, farm, loss, waiting, relationship, break-up, poem, gavin ewart, the immense advantage, a cathedral courtship, kate douglas wiggin, english, british, england, new world, stephen spender, influence, colonialism, america, europe, global relations, american poets, poetry, whitman, ginsberg, creeley, sinsburg, culture, auden, mcclure, blakey, form, verse, zukovsky, dallas, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, the poor man’s youngest son, fairytale, dream, princess, swineherd, dragon, gardener, leaving, adventure, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, the dragon’s heart, dragon, women, princess, devil, slayer, slay, fairytale, hunchback, disability, egg, duck, heart, death, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, king, wood, forrest, fishing, elm, elm-crown, fiction, viggo stuckenberg, translation, anthony weir, danish, there was once an old woman, misery, misfortune, sadness, resilience, loneliness, happiness, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, myles na gopaleen, alcoholism, drinking, christian brothers, ucd, civil service, flann o’brien, brien o’nolan, myles na cgopaleen, the third policeman, at swim-two-birds, novelist, the hard life, literature, irish language, review, jude the obscure, you phonio saxo?, ross russell, bird lives, charlie parker, review, jude the obscure, winslow homer is as good as paul cezanne, winslow homer, john wimerding, poem, peter newson, folk museum, sadness, ploughshares, past, history,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Sommer, McGuickan, Jude the Obscure. Issue has a George Buchanan ‘Supplement’ featuring Buchanan, Simmons, Warner, McMahon, Ormsby. Reviews by Montrose, Simmons, Magee.
poem, piotr sommer, when, translation, hal stuart, steve sutton, polish, waiting, time, knowledge, thought, poem, piotr sommer, bare words, translation, charles w. mignon, polish, trees, words, tree, branches, trunk, leaves, timber, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, steve sutton, polish, inside the chair, invisible, movement, place, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, and so on, walking, stillness, walk, still, returning, poem, piotr sommer, translation, charles w. mignon, polish, from alma ata, travel, return, things, touch, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, rozewicz, reading, book, annotation, words, writing, study, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, home, mother, door, return, change, poem, piotr sommer, translation, hal stuart, polish, to theresa, typist, typing, texts, night, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, i am a notebook, for douglas, writing, notes, writer, footnotes, poem, poetry, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, first sentence, ustka, beach, writing, writer, stories, story, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, the best policy, literature, ambition, youth, learning, provincial, metropolitan, things pass away, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, between bus-stop and home, to pawel and helena, family, solitude, loneliness, alone, thought, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, a bit more effort please, work, translation, learning, education, job, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, match report, spain v. yugoslavia, viacheslav kuprianov, football, sports, distance, watching, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, it’s late, sleep, bed, family, home, night, dreams, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, troubles, wives, fight, domestic, disagreement, conflict, family, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, between two gestures, woman, mother, child, time, death, poem, piotr sommer, translation, douglas dunn, polish, says the son, blood, mirror, leaving, family, parent, mother, chologoy, george buchanan, essay, james simmons, the poetry of george buchanan, essay, val warner, a shared present, george buchanan’s fiction, a london story, entanglement, the soldier and the girl, rose forbes, a place to live, naked reason, passage through the present, words for tonight, green seacoast, morning papers, conversation with strangers, inside traffic, essay, survey, arthur mcmahon, george buchanan’s journals, autobiography and essays, interview, george buchanan, frank ormsby, letters, journalism, present, theatre, bodily responses, poem, maeve mcguckian, after the weekend, home, house, destruction, cigarette, mess, poem, maeve mcguckian, the presence, wardrobe, clothing, clothes, fashion, belongings, poem, maeve mcguckian, shifting flats, moving, belongings, home, housing, change, furniture, poem, maeve mcguckian, the quilt, patchwork quilt, weather, change, colour, fading, fabric, textile, summer, time, autumn, poem, maeve mcguckian, cleaners, morning, sounds, listening, light, day, waking up, poem, maeve mcguckian, spring, sister, moon, night, february, cold, winter, window, vision, poem, maeve mcguckian, lent, snow, easter, weather, season, winter, spring, poem, maeve mcguckian, the accident, tea, teabag, damage, domestic, poem, maeve mcguckian, faith, snow, age, old, skin, dandruff, myth, belief, family, grandmother, poem, maeve mcguckian, family planning, domestic, home, homely, parents, children, generations, recipes, embroidery, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, farset and gomorrah, st martin de porres, chapter 12, london, swiss cottage, artist, clerk, work, money, chapter 13, painter, mixed-media, abstract, friendship, gin, irish, drinking, epilogue, 1969, law, review, david montrose, great hecht-pectations, anthony hecht, millions of strange shadows, review, james simmons, uneven stephens, james stephens, augustine martin, review, david montrose, geography: can do better, geography III, elizabeth bishop, review, wes magee, two anthologies, new poems, 1977/78, gavin ewart, new poetry 3, alan brownjohn, maureen duffy, review, david montrose, the lone ranger’s mask, vivian mercier, beckett/beckett,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Mahon, Muldoon, Heaney, Montague, Ormsby, Clarke, Peskett, McFadden, Rumens, Durcan, Stallworthy, Matthews, Adcock, Porter, Morrow, Ewart, Cam, Raine, Conran, Kennelly, Simmons, Cassidy, Paulin, Carson, Waterman, Buchanan, Williams, Johnstone, Longley, Platinov, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Geraldine Sweeney.
poem, derek mahon, autobiographies, the home front, stalingrad, war, domestic, baby, infant, wartime, bombs, child, childhood, soldiers, army, air-raid shelters, lucky strike, vera lynn, world war 2, second world war, yanks, memory, the lost girls, skegoneill primary school, play, pupil, kenya, neighbour, desire, loss, past, the last resort, beach, holiday, strandmore hotel, july, adolescence, desire, boyhood, rain, arcadia, the bicycle, cycling, raleigh, the third policeman, vehicle, travel, poem, paul muldoon, truce, war, soldiers, christmas, first world war, great war, german, polish, festival, world war 2, peace, poem, seamus heaney, high summer, child, heat, season, nature, fishing, rural, countryside, maggots, flies, insects, warmth, weather, writing, writer, poem, seamus heaney, polder, water, dyke, floods, dutch, intimacy, protection, poem, john montague, the absent lamb, affair, adultery, relationships, postmistress, sea, coastal, storm, weather, driving, survival, falling trees, seacast, poem, frank ormsby, the barn, wind, weather, elements, destruction, trees, neill’s plantation, river lane, johnny’s hill, the bed of straw, nature, man, names, poem, gillian clarke, ram, sheep, animal, body, nature, eye, october, buzzard, bone, remains, corpse, death, disintegration, growth, rotting, decomposition, black, brecon beacons, poem, william peskett, from belfast to suffolk, journey, low house, land, factory workers, landscape, fields, map, poem, roy mcfadden, luna, personality, north england, woman, family, individual, belmont road, life, death, dance, poem, carol rumens, ars vendendum, the beauty of advertising, work, job, presentation, performance, art, just eve, money, shopping, beloginings, love, desire, dress, consumerlit, books, bookshop, shopping, ideas, packages, author, literature, marketing, materiality, consumer culture, poem, paul durcan, a present for peregrine, only child, family, parents, detachment, home, reginald’s tower, waterford, tights, gift, mundane, poem, jon stallworthy, pages from a missionary journal, the arrival at tahuata, 22 march 1834, boat, ship, travel, french polynesia, genesis, let there be light, god, beginning, foreign, strange, christianity, paradise, religion, the beginning, 16 april 1834, the word, atua, eating, mouth, the contest, 10 august 1834, native, culture, others, difference, colonialism, belief, myth, faith, religion, first man, god, creation, prayer, preaching, poem, tom matthews, mrs. groenwald, asbestos mine, marriage, foreign, bantu, natives, emigration, colonialism, poem, fleur adcock, dry eyes, crying, emotion, feelings, seventy-six, age, tears, literature, art, pain, writing, poem, peter porter, end of affair, relationship, break-up, sex, ending, writer, writing, poetry, love, garden, detachment, poem, peter porter, alcestis and the poet, service, greek mythology, love, devotion, death, art, stevie smith, relationship, fiction, john morrow, chamber music, school, english department, birthday, middle age, james joyce, robert graves, driving, journey, pub, half-way house, student, ph.d, army barracks, guns, poem, gavin ewart, romeo addresses his poperin pear, sex, penis, juliet, possession, relationships, erection, poem, gavin ewart, on seeing my daughter wearing my white cricket flannels of 1933 in 1978, clothing, clothes, time, sport, fashion, pretty, youth, poem, anthony cam, the robot, love, perfection, technology, poetry, poet, body, poem, craig raine, sexual couplets, sex, metaphor, phallus, phallic, copulation, genitals, flesh, arse, genitalia, poem, anthony conran, an buinnean bui - the yellow bittern, for sally three days before her wedding, gift, present, anticipation, poetry, occasion, poem, brendan kennelly, a great day, white, wedding, marriage, occasion, ritual, party, dress, clothing, blue, poem, james simmons, the honeymoon, summer, love, beauty, appearance, sex, lust, poem, john cassidy, legacy, fossil, remains, trace, landscape, aeroplane, past, poem, tom paulin, surveillances, prison camp, watchtowers, imprisonment, incarceration, society, culture, poem, tom paulin, in the egyptian gardens, history, culture, past, remains, sunday, sabbath, egypt, poem, ciaran carson, east of cairo, sarajasthan, french cambodia, searching, travel, journey, lhasa, dalai lama, exploring, explorer, poem, andrew waterman, harmonies of islington, aeroplane, plane, sky, moon, burgh street, urban, local, housing, place, london, buildings, city, street, poem, george buchanan, the conclave, women, weaving, female, poetry, religion, poem, patrick williams, for those unconcerned, care, charity, pity, school, monk, teacher, pupils, empathy, poem, robert johnstone, working with cauliflowers, vegetables, grocery, green grocer, food, retail, shop, shopping, cauliflower, vegetable, growth, poem, michael longley, arrest, police, crime, perversion, sex, nature, animals, tidying up, incarceration, institution, fiction, andrei platonov, translation, michael pursglove, yushka, russian, old man, age, smith, blacksmith, abuse, children, outsider, alienation, society, existentialism, violence, health, illness, love, death, charity, kindness, self-sacrifice, medicine, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, patrick kavanagh, the green fool, t. s. eliot, the great hunger, the streets of pompeii, why sorrow, by night unstarred, review, david montrose, the selected james simmons, edna longley, review, david montrose, o. c. light brigade, no fool like an old fool, gavin ewart, the first eleven, gavin ewart, or where a young penguin lies screaming, gavin ewart, review, james simmons, local and unique, the sinking of the kenbane head, sam mcaughtry,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Adcock, Heffer, McCarthy, Rumens, Sutherland-Smith, Newmann, Hamilton, Young, Stephens, Okudzhava, Apollinaire, Ewart, Porter, Maxton, Cassidy, Conran, Harrop, O’Brien, Wiljer, Simms, Paulin, Caws, Clothier, McMillan, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Michael Morgan.
poem, fleur adcock, syringa, charing cross embankment, city, society, drunks, outsiders, place, gentrification, urban, poem, fleur adcock, this ungentle music, mozart, leukaemia, illness, records, poem, linda heffer, crossroads, catholicism, church, dances, leisure, drinking, drink, behaviour, poem, patricia mccarthy, linguist, language, speaking, sex, intimacy, body, speech, relationship, distance, poem, patricia mccarthy, the other woman, difference, women, contrast, personality, poem, carol rumens, redundant, radio, sound, voices, coffee, morning, employment, job, work, poem, carol rumens, peasant, behaviour, mood, class, personality, communication, connection, wife, husband, marriage, poem, james sutherland-smith, bull, drunk, alcoholic, alcohol, humiliation, excretion, poem, joan newmann, the roadman, labour, work, spade, digging, poem, joan newmann, wesley again, pup, puppy, bike, bicycle, poem, joan newmann, anyone would be better anywhere, family, conflict, emotions, break-up, poem, robin hamilton, another glance at cosmology, god, cosmos, stars, star, sky, creation, poem, augustus young, song 1, don’t dance on my crumbs, birth, growth, life, family, rejection, down-and-out, outsider, hopelessness, hope, poverty, poem, michael stephens, gethsemane, christ, goodness, trying, good, christianity, morality, religion, understanding, punishment, violence, crucifixion, poem, bulat okudzhava, translation, robert reid, barmrack, brambrack, bread, fruit loaf, baking, cooking, food, eating, poem, from le bestiaire of guillaume apollinaire, translation, peter denman, goat of tibet, animals, animal, beasts, snake, cat, rabbit, camel, mouse, elephant, flea, locust, dolphin, crayfish, carp, peacock, owl, ibis, bull, god, fish, insects, mammals, birds, poem, gavin ewart, evening class at college of further education, students, studying, swinburne, english, language, school, grammar, words, sisiphus, knowledge, teaching, teacher, poem, peter porter, the bomb will not drop, growth, cats, ashbery, poetry, poet, writing, ambition, age, birthday, trivia, middle age, older, poem, hugh maxton, a death in the mountains, in memory of bob strachan, january, winter, death, car, ending, poem, john cassidy, la gran’mere du chimquiere, statue, sculpture, art, ekphrasis, guernsey, neolithic, idol, sentry, grandmother, woman, goddess, gatepost, destruction, deterioration, iconoclasm, poem, anthony conran, oyster, for seamus heaney, shellfish, sea shell, creature, animal, slime, lime, white, whiteness, bi-valves, body, poem, les harrop, northern gothic, intimacy, danish, body, head, skull, house, landscape, dog, hound, romantic, poem, les harrop, birthday weather, wind, life, death, age, aging, poem, sean o’brien, the park by the railway, for sara, pastoral, urban, city, nature, industrial, romance, relationship, love, trains, choice, loss, poem, robert wiljer, niagara falls: the honeymooners paradise, goat island, landscape, waterfall, annie taylor, annie edson taylor, rainbow, water, maid of the mist, tourism, america, fall, survival, skylon tower, marriage, wedding, poem, jaqueline simms, in context, cloister, place, environment, building, order, monastery, movement, space, desire, poem, jaqueline simms, waning virility, gender, male, female, farrell, singapore grip, sun, moon, difference, light, pills, pill, poem, tom paulin, pings on the great globe, dirt, residue, comedian, little, trash, rubbish, world, smell, pollution, poem, ian caws, riders, february, winter, horses, horse, animals, movement, beach, shore, poem, cal clothier, in the sun, sand, shore, beach, shells, sea shells, intimacy, bodies, consciousness, love, poem, ian mcmillan, here comes summer, hay-fever, seasons, radio, sweat, heat, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, art, comic-strip, drawing, winsor mccay, george herriman, george ade, funnies, newspaper, democracy, pop culture, comics, little nemo, review, david montrose, smiling azrael, kalki, gore vidal, the apostate angel: a critical study of gore vidal, bernard f. dick, review, david montrose, urbane guerilla, matters of fact and of fiction, essays 1973-1976, gore vidal, review, paul muldoon, closely observed raine’s the onion, memory, craig raine, review, brian andrews, overhearing secret harmonies, the pleasure steamers, andrew motion, poem, p. benedict muldoon, paul muldoon, lines on the publication of, so, farewell them...and other poems, e. j. thribb, poet, poetry, british, review, review, victor price, three heavies, selections from the contributions to the irish homestead, g. w. russell, henry summerfield, the journals, lady gregory, volume one, daniel j. murphy, a study of the novels of george moore, richard cave, review, ciaran carson, many music, traditional music in ireland, tomas o canainn,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: McFadden, Paulin, Ormsby, Gorman, Magee, Morrow, Sheerin, Brennan, McMann, Simms, Denman, Buchanan, Montrose, Glendinning, King, Squires, Daly, Hutchinson, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Noel Connor.
poem, roy mcfadden, the grand central hotel, local, accent, mother tongue, elocution, place, setting, belfast, royal avenue, gresham street, wartime, war, city, urban, victoria square, bombs, bombing, poem, tom paulin, the other voice, belfast, literature, culture, friendship, plekhanov, homer, raskolnikov, history, art, theatre, poetry, russia, moscow, baltic, sound, voice, language, place, poem, from a belfast journal, frank ormsby, v, family, glasses, eyesight, vision, optician, sight, writer, writing, poet, vi, running, sunset, time, childhood, poem, michael gorman, postcards from galway, i, desertion, season, holiday,warwick hotel, salthill, walking, walk, relationship, leaving, ii, expectant, rahoon, domestic, class, change, iii, on the streets, place, ireland, individuals, eyre square, development, loss, iv, the pathologist, murder, death, tuam, corpse, cadaver, v, summer again, tinker, waiting, poem, wes magee, hwyl, vetch field, swansea, f. a. cup replay, football, sport, game, match, fiction, john morrow, lonely heart, 1944, ritz cinema, belfast, wartime, war, car accident, death, dum-dum bullet, allies, vehicles, troops, army, yanks, poem, joe sheerin, the lover, death, life, romance, love, family, loss, departure, leaving, father, poem, joe sheerin, habits, intimacy, relationship, kiss, kissing, spit, saliva, sex, change, home, poem, rory brennan, mask of a mycenean prince, face, power, monarchy, past, time, poem, rory brennan, to put your house in order, time, aging, building, decay, deterioration, youth, raven, poem, trevor mcmahon, honey, out of the strong came forth sweetness, bees, hive, fear, gender, queen, animals, male, female, poem, jacqueline simms, the bridge, river, building, infrastructure, weather, poem, peter denman, the vanity of wishing wells, coins, water, hope, tadpole, death, desire, poem, peter denman, thaw, ice, cold, winter, fire, snow, poem, george buchanan, jill’s death, flowers, life, mourning, memory, memorial, poem, david montrose, after the interview, job, employment, work, career, underdog, unemployment, self-worth, confidence, poem, david montrose, burned bridges, finality, change, action, relationships, anger, words, regret, poem, robin glendinning, gazebo of love, change, passing time, wedding, kissing, kiss, lovers, seed, growth, poem, patrick king, moving out, housing, rent, home, relationship, change, leaving, time, domestic, garden, poem, patrick king, from the madness of sweeney, sweeney’s capture, family, bird, detachment, loss, death, grief, sadness, poem, geoffrey squires, landscape, journey, memory, details, bridge, poem, geoffrey squires, foreground, bush, nature, poem, geoffrey squires, light, illumination, landscape, clarity, poem, padraig j, daly, nun, poverty, building, decoration, interiors, change, school, god, memory, nostalgia, poem, padraig j. daly, lovesong, memory, remembering, place, relationship, love, beauty, beach, river, hotel, poem, w. r. hutchinson, requiem for a crop, autumn, harvest, food, growth, nature, victoria, purgatory, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, george ade, country, city, chicago, artie, pink marsh, any other business, review, felix vallotton, perception in the form of shocks, woodcut, la manefestation, any other business, review, jesus christ superflop, michael foley, the life of jamesie coyle, review, brian andrews, industrial workings, w. b. yeats, the critical heritage, a norman jeffares,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Simmons, Muldoon, Gallagher, Percy, Peskett, Dawe, Buchanan, Fainlight, McCarthy, Phillips, Skinner, Williams, Clifton, Gorman, Jude the Obscure. Cover by Michael Morgan.
poem, james simmons, after eden, marriage, relationship, husband, fight, row, wife, break-up, violence, domestic abuse, poem, james simmons, the imperial theme, girls, sex, lust, bodies, clitoris, genitalia, poem, james simmons, mr. cordelia, marriage, husband, wife, row, flight, domestic, poet, truth, poetry, relationship, conflict, poem, james simmons, a song of herself, gender, romeo, youth, virginity, girl, fear, poem, paul muldoon, making the move, literature, ulysses, marriage, distance, leaving, ownership, possession, bow, weapon, poem, tess gallagher, the wives of my childhood, women, wife, gender, memory, men, mothers, poem, tess gallagher, i save your coat but you lose it later, belongings, possessions, mourning, loss, attachment, clothing, poem, tess gallagher, some with wings, some with manes, neighbour, age, old, elderly, garden, growth, fruit, disease, determination, effort, sewing, trees, cathedral windows, poem, margaret percy, night watch, death, dying, survival, care, custody, light, poem, william peskett, fenland, water, rural, fifteen foot, forty foot, damp, landscape, change, hundred foot, flood, wet, rain, poem, william peskett, earthworms, life, living, survival, experience, existence, poem, gerald dawe, interstices, distance, place, rain, mayo, christ, essay, george buchanan, lyle donaghy, a personal note, poem, ruth fainlight, only the magpie, bible, noah, fall, paradise, flight, animals, desire, fulfillment, poem, patricia mccarthy, village church, graveyard, death, sadness, mourning, music, motet, pascal, evensong, agnostic, agnosticism, belief, faith, religion, poem, adam phillips, reading outside, wasps, insects, wasp, september, impatience, hurry, summer, impatient, poem, knute skinner, at a silent meeting, silence, speech, communication, sabbath, religion, god, prayer, poem, knute skinner, a social engagement, friendship, friends, interaction, party, occasion, poem, patrick williams, credo, youth, life, death, age, aging, birth, survival, poem, harry clifton, the old city dam, river, water, urban, silence, beauty spot, landscape, poem, harry clifton, savannah in bloom, africa, dry season, rain, weather, plains, rainy season, growth, poem, michael gorman, erris, barnata, mayo, landscape, foxpoint, devil’s spit, bogs, plants, nature, houses, glencastle, tourist, tourism, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, george ade, mark twain society, pnk marsh, doc’s home, chicago, drama, review, edna longley, katherine mansfield, a biography, jeffrey meyers, review, tom paulin, let the day perish, in dreams begin responsibilities, delmore schwartz, delmore schwartz, the life of an american poet, james atlas, delmore schwartz: what is to be given: selected poems, douglas dunn, review, brian andrews, mister strangelove, in between the sheets ian mcewan, review, gerald dawe, the rain dance, john hewitt, review, david montrose, muscular strains, an attitude of mind, john cassidy, review, david montrose, the first cuckoo, the woddis collection, roger woddis, review, brian andrews, wade not balanced, letters to w. b. yeats (2 volumes), richard j. finneran, george mills harper, william m. murphy, review, michael k. acheson, landscapes of the heart, corncrake in october, norman dugdale,
Note: Date Correct. Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: McGuckian, Sheerin, Foley, The War Years: A Symposium: Hanna Bell, Buchanan, Grecen, Heppenstall, Hewitt, Montague, Morrow, Murphy, McAughtry, McFadden, Potts, Simmons. Joe Biggar. Reviews by: Dunn, Andrews.
poem, medbh mcguckian, tulips, flowers, flower, touch, tulip, defence, protection, rain, poem, medbh mcguckian, the seed-picture, joanna, children, seeds, fruit, portrait, art, craft, communication, poem, medbh mcguckian, the cage-cup, weather, summer, drought, ireland, sun, stars, journey, glass, poem, joe sheerin, the soothsayer, fortune teller, doctor, medicine, illness, death, diagnosis, future, poem, joe sheerin, the confession, sex, night, moon, rain, woods, dark, desire, lust, poem, michael foley, ten years on, past, poetry, aging, ego, relationship, poem, michael foley, song of the creep, sex, knowledge, gavin ewart, artist , poetry, symposium, memoir, essay, the war years in ulster 1939 - 45, world war two, ww2, second world war, belfast, sam hanna bell, labour progress, george herbert, campbell’s cafe, LAGAN, george buchanan, nazi, nazis, raf, west africa, robert greacen, air raid, aldous huxley, belfast, bombs, pacifism, poets, rayner heppenstall, british troops in northern ireland, the lesser infortune, john hewitt, belfast museum and art gallery, peace league, rationing, air raid, waterworks, bomb, the bell, now in ulster, george campbell, john montague, r. a. f., phoney war, garvaghey, the rough field, evacuees, evacuation, derry, r. u. c., john morrow, sewing, uniforms, money, air raid shelters, blitz, lurgan, yanks, yankies, american soldiers, michael j. murphy, army, i. r. a. ira, irish army, sam mcaughtry, luftwaffe, aeroplane, plane, bomb, breathing, mater hospital, campbell college, injury, roy mcfadden, poetry, military, lagan, poets, PEN centre, shelters, blitz, belfast, the bell, the whig, writers, paul potts, irish volunteer, british army, nationalism, hitler, john hewitt, mount charles, ex-protestants, protestant, catholic, kavanagh, james simmons, childhood, adolf hitler, wartime, spitfire, bomb, play, child, anderson shelter, smoking, piano, american, canadian, soldiers, derry, donegal, the saladin, evacuation, victoria college, essay, fiction, novel, hu business section, h. u. business section, the good districts and the bad districts, joe biggar, jude the obscure, the millbank inheritance, farset, city, urban, marriage, family, work, jobs, domestic, protestant, catholic, prison, jail, new york, irish, francine nuns, review, douglas dunn, belonging, poets from the north of ireland, frank ormsby, review, brian andrews, hardy perennial, the inner harbour, fleur adcock, below loughrigg, fleur adcock,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Feaver, Scammell, Hutchinson, Ewart, McFadden, McDonald, Kirkpatrick, Price, Jude the Obscure. Book reviews by: Montrose, Andrews, Simmons, Paulin. Cover by Noel Connor.
poem, victoria feaver, monkeys, animals, human, ape, emotion, empathy, shame, zoo, poem, victoria feaver, russian vine, plants, nature, weather, empathy, garden, spring, poem, victoria feaver, picnic, renoir, disappointment, mundane, souvenirs, family, poem, william scammell, bliss in two sizes, sex, intimacy, age, middle-age, drinking, alcohol, drunk, clothing, lovers, party, poem, william scammell, short history of aesthetics, skiddaw, bassenthwaite, lake district, nature, landscape, cumbria, mountain, hang-gliders, poem, william scammell, the duel, snow, fight, conflict, pushkin, russian, death, wound, horses, d’anthes, black river, poem, w. r. hutchinson, blue tit, bird, animal, wing, nature, poem, gavin ewart, stately homes (baroque), housman house, brontes, history, buildings, literature, tennyson, oscar wilde, poem, gavin ewart, traditional, marriage, love, age, old, sex, poem, gavin ewart, sexpride, sex, love, pride, attraction, bodies, poem, roy mcfadden, sketches of boz, charles dickens, victorian england, blacking factory, hungerford stairs, class, boot polish, writer, mary hogarth, fame, career, family, maria beadnell, literature, the public readings, characters, oliver, age, art, poem, peter mcdonald, after lear, tragedy, life, death, drowning, corpse, dead, poem, peter mcdonald, station (for hilary), winter, travel, tran, railway, time, leaving, poem, johnston kirkpatrick, milking parlour, milk, cows, farming, machinery, food, poem, victor price, overkill, body, bodies, nerves, skin, blood, systems, human, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, proust, flaubert, education sentimentale, emotional education, goncourt, turgenev, zola, daudet, france, french, writers, literature, duc de morny, dickens, review, david montrose, pieces for theses, collected poems in english and french, samuel beckett, john calder, review, brian andrews, the great reinventor, a martian sends a postcard home, craig raine, review, james simmons, the new seamus heaney, field work, seamus heaney, review, tom paulin, a rare and extraordinary imagination, poems 1962-1978, derek mahon,
Editor: Frank Ormsby: Contributors: Mahon, Goodenough, Wichert, Ewart, Scully, Vincente, Rae, Gorman, Deane, Curtis, Szirtes, Phillips, Rumens, McDonald, Williams, Lagan, Johnstone, Mather, Gillilian, Daugherty, Jude the Obscure. Book reviews by: Jude the Obscure, Montrose, Andrews.
poem, derek mahon, north wind, weather, coast, sea, storm, tempest, poem, derek mahon, brighton poems, for paul smith, memory, remember, friendship, nostalgia, sea, belfast, laverys, europe, france, english, pier, poem, judith goodenough, predecessor, garden, mint, home, trace, occupant, house, ghost, poem, judith goodenough, periphery, animals, garden, encounter, empathy, home, domestic, mouse, blackbird, fox, poem, judith goodenough, stillbirth, star, firmament, sky, place, death, loss, poem, judith goodenough, auguries, omen, bloodshed, violence, killing, poem, judith goodenough, wooing the wizard, necromancer, magic, guises, shapeshifter, fear, fright, poem, sabine wichert, memory, night, leaving, affair, magic, shadows, intimacy, sentiment, emotion, poem, gavin ewart, the pope in africa, roman catholic, catholicism, missionary, power, birth control, divorce, poverty, religion, poem, gavin ewart, literary, residential, creative writing, writers, mental health, poem, gavin ewart, certitude, father, family, parent, parenthood, abuse, violence, fear, son, domestic, poem, maurice scully, orchid, bee orchid, flower, orphys, civilization, nature, tesitcle, regret, poem, gil vincente, translation, spanish, geoffrey may, 16th century, cassy’s song, marriage, husband, wife, independence, women, rebellion, poem, simon rae, aubade, farm, dogs, animals, sound, noise, rural, countryside, emptiness, leaving, home, poem, damian gorman, rodin’s the thinker, metheusalah, atlas, intelligence, world, ekphrasis, greek mythology, philosophy, judaism, sculpture, auguste rodin, poem, damian gorman, the stone, beetle, empathy, life, insect, protection, fear, frightened, poem, seamus deane, osip mandlestam, poetry, need, society, bukharin, yaagoda, rykov, shot, shoot, petropolis, styx, russian, jewish, poem, seamus deane, directions, war monument, derry, memorial, city, journey, destiny, poem, michael carey, for and infant left in a winter chill, night, city, taxi, death, baby, neglect, abandonment, poem, simon curtis, may-song at the litchborough church, art, religion, erection, penis, sin, grace, pagan, christian, poem, george szirtes, the object of desire, intimacy, relationship, love, sleep, bed, speaking, regret, words, waking up, poem, george szirtes, romantic episode, hunt, hunting, gun, rabbit, forest, animals, poem, adam phillips, permanent residence, home, house, trace, residue, domestic, poem, carol rumens, small views, landscape, sea, travel, sky, view, poem, carol rumens, a poor man, gifts, poverty, library books, family, domestic, home, shoes, father, parenthood, poem, peter mcdonald, dead letters, snow, journey, belfast, home, rain, comfort, fear, poems, poetry, memory, love, relationship, loss, poem, peter mcdonald, return, aeroplane, airport, flight, plane, travel, journey, home, place, pain, sadness, poem, patrick williams, morning, time, night, spring, beginning, suffering, life, hope, suicide, poem, patrick williams, a marriage, family, tension, child, parents, parenthood, imperfection, poem, cathal lagan, the dark of the dawn, rain, weather, past, continuation, change, familiarity, poem, cathal lagan, your hair, wind, weather, personality, poem, cathal lagan, it all depends, poetry, poem, communication, red wheelbarrow, william carlos williams, poem, robert johnstone, from homage to rowntree-mackintosh, polo, york, polo mint, confectionary, sweets, rowntree, factory, labour, black magic, machinery, chocolate, cocoa, industry, food, poem, robert johnstone, deja vu, father, aging, memory, childhood, pigeons, birds, poem, peter mather, home cooking, food, kitchen, jam, preserve, sugar, home, childhood, damson, duckam’s oil, chippy, beetroot, father, son, mother, cellar, poem, pamela gillilan, semi-detached, home, house, domestic, mother, bathing, childhood, poem, pamela gillilan, dilemma, decision making, confusion, poem, michael daugherty, the hill, place, memory, nostalgia, poem, michael daugherty, poem for a loser, gambling, horse racing, gambler, poem, michael daugherty, may, relationship, dislike, essay, hu business section, h. u. business section, jude the obscure, alphonse daudet, writer, novels, novelist, jack, le nabab, les rois en exil, french, review, jude the obscure, a restoration playboy, identity papers, anthony cronin, review, david montrose, the long ascendancy, selected poems, richard murphy, review, david montrose, class is the curse of the thinking workers, barbarians, douglas dunn, review, robert johnstone, meticulous arrows of evidence, survivors, william perkett, review, brian andrews, on serious earth, the strange museum, tom paulin,