Editor: Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Dunn, McCaul, Paulin, Peacock, Carson, McMullan, Daly, Lavery, McLaverty, Brown, Kelly, Burleigh, Lynch, Greacen, Allen, Skinner, Burke, McKenna, Curtis, Hogan, Pursglove, Simmons, Morgan, Foley, Ewart, Longley, McIntyre, Deane, Holden, Jude the Obscure. Cover by John Middleton.
poem, douglas dunn, the come-on, society, class, culture, popular, writing, poem, jack mccoy, town, twilight, western, badlands, gunmen, trail’s end, bar, saloon, poem, jack mccoy, for anita glenn, after the persian, sufi, love, gift, magic, rasht, shiraz, quayen, heart, lovers, poem, tom paulin, a new society, past, forgetting, memory, housing, houses, buildings, dead, death, domesticity, poem, alan peacock, home from holiday, house, time, place, ownership, familiarity, belongings, poem, alan peacock, message in a bottle, vulnerability, loneliness, rescue, instability, lost, sea, knowledge, poem, ciaran carson, belleek, ceramics, pottery, character pieces, tobacco brewer, jack at sea, prisoner of love, tea, food, eating, domestic, design, craft, cloud, sky, beauty, moment, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, luis cernuda, poem, I want to be alone in the south, spain, landscape, singing, song, beauty, geography, desert, darkness, light, rain, translation, terence mcmullan, spanish, manuel altolaguirre, poem, beach, boats, sea, shore, sun, shadow, presence, fishermen, open book, poem, padraig j. daly, toucher, road, travel, rejection, age, old, experience, empathy, poem, padraig j. daly, wisdom, mind, thought, contradictions, consciousness, uncertain, poem, padraig j. daly, sagart III, winter, solitude, rural, countryside, marginal, liminal, silence, communication, tale, story, age, old, experience, poem, leo lavery, st malachy’s college, for john murray, school, pupil, adolescence, endurance, pain, nostalgia, education, protection, separation, caesar, cato, pleasure, fiction, bernard mclaverty, anodine, food, ireland, howard’s end, seaside, beach, death, loss, care, mother, parent, recovery, holiday, memory, books, reading, hopkins, drawing, sketching, poetry, english, teaching, teacher, trinity college dublin, friendship, social behaviour, fiction, bernard mclaverty, a pornographer woos, beach, holiday, sea, ogee, family, lust, body, motherhood, writing, writer, mother-in-law, children, family, affection, love, cunt, sex, desire, poem, jonathan brown, the amateur, rent-boy, contempt, bus-fare, saviour, prostitution, affair, poem, jonathan brown, he flounces out, love, affair, homosexuality, gay, emotions, fight, tantrum, break-up, poem, michael kelly, coming sober to bed, intimacy, attention, sensation, body, mind, experience, poem, michael kelly, ember day, romance, love, relationship, restaurant, affection, prayer, poem, david burleigh, pause, recognition, relationships, memory, remembering, regret, moment, crowd, people, poem, david burleigh, rape, for jeanine, sex, abuse, violence, lust, desire, strength, trauma, human rights, vulnerability, poem, liam lynch, o’rahilly’s true love, relationship, romance, passion, sex, tete-a-tete, lover, experience, poem, liam lynch, o’rahilly’s first love, misogyny, sex, virginity, poem, robert greacen, knowing and not knowing, knowledge, wisdom, tao, lao-tsu, taoism, silence, silent, chinese, po chu-i, writing, speaking, contradiction poem, k. allen, a voice, prophet, prophecy, preacher, preaching, antrim, down, christianity, salvation, communication, poem, knute skinner, children, son, parenthood, childhood, fulfillment, adulthood, singing, jumping, poem, mark burke, silver on black, death, cats, kittens, drowning, survival, life, breath, culling, animals, murder, poem, james n. mckenna, after autumn, leaves, nature, rain, fall, london, seasons, fashion, change, mccabe, society, city, kensington, poem, gabriel curtis, awaiting battle, war, army, trenches, disability, amputee, amputation, injury, sympathy, wound, gun, thomson-gun, arm, body, fiction, desmond hogan, teddy-boys, teddy boys, 1950s, subculture, culture, clothing, ireland, youth, small town, james dean, innocence, sex, adolescence, tragedy, drowning, death, genitals, nakedness, local, essay, michael pursglove, andrey platonov: an introduction, russian, the locks of yepiphan, for future use, red star, the third son, a flower in the earth, poem, james simmons, west strand visions, watching, view, observation, port stewart, sights, evening, sunset, seaside, north coast, poem, james simmons, last port, dying, death, body, organs, flesh, sensation, army, war, soldier, defender, defence, attack, poem, james simmons, definitions, thanksgiving, emotion, love, pride, poem, edwin morgan, from the new divan, 62, storyteller, tale, story, sinbad, flying carpet, monsters, sea, fairytale, magic, one hundred and one nights, 63, galilee, tourism, travelling, religion, pilgrimage, paviours, 64, smoke, children, poverty, radiation, destruction, refugee, poem, michael foley, through the gateless gate, zen, chinese, koans, ten irish poets, career, success, sloth, authenticity, poem, michael foley, the dance of thought, mind, thinking, life, aspirations, acceptance, failure, poem, gavin ewart, a double view, izaak walton, the complete angler, 1652, joan c. southerland, club international, 1974, pleasure, piscator, history, england, yanks, limeys, verjuice, past, sex, poem, gavin ewart, the elizabethan american paperback song, sex, the lover and his lass, lust, poem, michael longley, for marie, a prayer, irish, baby, reticence, quotation, mary, ann, pregnancy, motherhood, baby, a telegram, birth, pearl, oyster, creation, poem, michael longley, dream, intimacy, body, hair, sleep, poem, michael longley, on sitting down to read keats’s ‘on sitting down to read king lear once again’ once again, title, reading, writing, parthenogenesis, johannes factotum, literature, influence, poem, tom macintyre, weasel, road, night, moon, dog, fear, animals, anticipation, rats, anxiety, threat, danger, poem, seamus deane, a deeper exile, sea, desire, longing, nature, pathetic fallacy, loneliness, weather, emotions, loss, love, poem, molly holden, cargoes, summer, seasons, wind, weather, flowers, fruit, burgeoning, growth, nature, spring, autumn, memory, sensation, imagination, poem, molly holden, eastnor castle, ledbury, malvern, chiddock, yews, nature, woods, family, visit, weekend, happiness, memoir, robert greacen, denis ireland: a memoir, belfast, rosemary street, p. e. n., campbell’s cafe, from the jungle of belfast, eulogy, letter, robert greacen, letter to the editor, essay, the hu business section, the h. u. business section, jude the obscure, edward hopper, art, painting, painter, subject-matter, work, thomas eakins, robert henri, american artists, ash-can school, brian o’doherty, the comedians, nighthawks, office at night, review, john hewitt, the centaur at the house of prayer, the poetry of austin clarke, austin clarke: collected poems, review, james simmons, wise, balanced and beautiful, december bride, sam hanna bell, review, ciaran carson, ryan on the rocks, please, ravenswood, richard ryan, review, james simmons, neither clergyman nor schoolteacher, tyrone folk quest, michael j. murphy,
Editor: James Simmons, Contributors: Ewart, Adams, Stephens, Waterman, Murphy, Muldoon, Mulhern, Ormsby, Kennelly, Jenkins, Topping, Smyth, Dugdale, Thomson.
poem, geoff magee, from an exile, belfast, youth, editorial, james simmons, revolutionary advise, individual morality, james hemming, literature, individuality, sex, adolescence, masturbation, maturity, marriage, freedom, love, relationships, poem, gavin ewart, the poem of our time, relationships, marriage, abuse, politics, minorities, suffering, poem, gavin ewart, the clarissa harlowe poem, samuel richardson, heroine, virtue, sin, history of a young woman, Lovelace, sex, rape, poem, ruth adams, the rains, weather, rain, animals, watching, growth, nature, nourishment, urban, city, cassius, storm, quixote, poem, ruth adams, the god of child, childhood, imagination, religion, sunflower, nature, light, growing up, belief, sun, poem, three views, michael stephens, one, senses, observation, ekphrasis, art, painting, looking, listening, sea, grass, two, morning, milk, milkman, cold, freezing, ice, mist, weather, observation, sense, moment, three, memory, remembering, instant, moment, mother, poem, andrew waterman, outsider, bar, pub, public house, pint, watching, movement, objects, isolation, poem, andrew waterman, room for living, grave, cemetery, flowers, mourning, dead, graveyard, life, fiction, michael j. murphy, down the glen, extract from a novel, the green book, dundalk, liverpool, south armagh, childhood, glen dhu, stone-breaker, slieve gullion, poem, paul muldoon, rodgers at loughgall, armagh, place, neighbour, poem, ownership, poem, francis mulhern, curriculum vitae revealed, women, woman, body, bodies, labour, life, bowls, bowling, poem, frank ormsby, epitaph for a parochial worker, work, st vincent de paul, chapel, legacy, death, charity, poem, brendan kennelly, design, humanity, human behaviour, violence, crime, anger, legacy, logic, innovation, Cain, Christ, wrath, treachery, poem, philip jenkins, first poem for jennifer, sex, sensation, senses, movement, bodies, love, romance, metaphor, moment, heartbeat, dedication, jean coleman, poem, brian n. topping, in a dead factory, industry, machine, machinery, emptiness, empty, silence, history, death, poem, gerard smyth, slowdance, bodies, body, dance, music hall, relationship, connection, sensation, romance, poem, norman dugdale, poor fitz, death, funeral, grief, mourning, life, alone, solitude, review, james simmons, patrick kavanagh, almost everything, review, james simmons, patrick boyle, all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye, review, leo d’agostino, the bridge in the jungle, ben traven, poem, james simmons, new song, the new ulster, bann, northern ireland, burntollet bray, fahan strand, work,
Editor: James Simmons: Contributors: Hewitt, Stephens, Kennelly, McFeeter, McElroy, Burleigh, Friel, Montgomery, O’Connor, Simmons, Ellis, Walshe.
Revolutionary advice part 4, James Simmons, Poem, John Hewitt, The Search, countries, travel, stranger, emigration, home, old, place, landscapes, return, Extract, John Hewitt, autobiography, memoir, extract, A North Light, Alec of the Chimney Corner,, dr alexander irvine, my lady of the chimney corner, novels, mother, writer, author, sermon, orator, oration, rhetoric, Belfast, church, Y.M.C.A, the laying on of hands, John Langtry Lynas, portrait, artist, Poem, Michael Stephens, the importance of free thought, child, adult, growth, learning, sex, politics, social responsibility, irony, society, individual, Poem, Michael Stephens, schooldays, child, childhood, school, play, bulldozer, death, trauma, accident, machinery, Poem, Michael Stephens, i think it was michael stephens who said, intimate, intimacy, face, faces, friendship, community, poet, love, nervous, fear, orator, neurosis Poem, Michael Stephens, my noddy neurosis, growth, growing up, Bigears, child, children’s television, adolescent, teen, adult, Poem, brendan kennelly, birthdays and farewells, occasion, birthday, goodbye, event, parody, time, social ritual, encounter, departure, death, performance, Poem, Brendan Kennelly, a couple, she, he, morning, evening, electric blanket, domestic, marriage, kiss, snipe, jameson, pub, love, romance, relationships, men, women, gender Poem, Garry McFeeter, poem for the womanhood of today, love, women, beauty, make-up, cosmetics, hair, appearance, femininity, desire, wooden leg, ailment, disability, amputee, objectification extract, rev. albert h. acelroy, installation address, james simmons, religion, presbyterian, christianity, humanist, communist, clergyman, catholicism, graham green, commitment, all souls church, belfast, non-subscribing church of ireland, humanity, existence, irish presbyterianism, unitarians, history, theology, liberal, liberalism, radical, god, conformity, Paisley, paisleyism, catholic, protestant, criticism, young people, youth, sex, spirit, spirituality, morality, man, human, responsibility, duty, orator, oration, speech, denomination, Poem, david burleigh, bird, nature, bird watching, movement, sea, rook, rooks, seagulls, cliff, landscape, hunt, fly Poem, Michael Friel, gransha, hospital, health, sick, sickness, well, wellness, people, community, hurt, cigarette, night, day, sleep, painter, artist, busman, writer, farmer, soldier, jobs, damage, mental health, emotion, expression, depression, sensation, therapy, psyche, psychology, loss, lunacy, clean, self, pill, medicine, Derry, Londonderry, clinic, injury, foyle, landscape, psychosis, madness, internment, travel, road, Fiction, derek montgomery, a letter from america, jazz, airport, travel, ivy williams, poetry, music, drink, drinking, black, negro, insult, racism, liquor, records, party, US, America, men, women, race, Poem, Fleann O’Connor, salvage, in memory of james clarence mangan, poetry, poet, history, memory, value, wreckage, rescue, save, history, death, survival, life, struggle Review, che guevara, reminiscences of the cuban revolutionary war, james simmons, war battle, history, poem, raymond ellis, elegy on the death of martin luther king, politics, race, peace, war, religion, Green Hill, promised land, general westmoreland, poem, new song, james simmons, johnny my gigolo, sharp collection, sex, sun, holiday, escort, love, romance, lover, age,
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editor: Ruth Hooley. Contributors: Hagan (on Padriac Fiacc). Smyth, Parker, Durkan, Bushe, Dhomhnaill/Sewell, Hannan, Hohnston F, Johnston M, MacIntyre, McCartney, Wheatley, McGrath, McMahon, Quinn, Longley, Jude the Obscure, McIntosh, Batson, Blackman, Collingridge, Daniels, Daugherty, Dawson, Etty, Graham, Hearne, Hill, Holmes, Kazantzis, Loney, McNeill, Phillips, Pritchard, Sousa, Tillinghast, Zell. Book Reviews: Whitworth, Hull, Wheatley, Caldwell, Craig, Rumens.
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editors: Ruth Hooley, Frank Sewell. Contributors: Artur, Allen, Black, Boland, Browne, Burnside, Canfolla, Cannon, Clutterbuck, Dawe, Deane, Donaldson, Dullaghan, Fitzpatrick-Simmons, Garlitz, Greene, Heaney, Hill, Houlahan, , Kazantzis, Kennelly, Knight, Knowles, Longley, Lovelock, Mac Lochlainn, Mahon, McCracken, McDonald, McGuckian, McMahon, Mezei, Montague, Mooney, Muldoon, O’Grainne, O’Cuimin, O’Hare, Reid, Rumens, Sewell, Simmons, Sirr, Sullivan, Sutherland-Smith, Werner, Zell. Jude the Obscure, Dawe/McGrath, Book Reviews: Dawe, O Pheann an Phlearaca, Haberstroh. Cover by Gerard Mangan.
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editors: Ruth Carr, Frank Sewell. Contributors: Hull, Beirne, Brady, Padel, Boran, Brett, Devlin, Duffy, McGurk, Galligan, Givens, Kelly, MacIntyre, Monahan, Montague, O’Connor, O’Donnell, Parkinson, Quinn, Rooney, Valentine, McDonald, Wichert, Mieriol, Bennett, Burleigh/Rosenstock, Burnside, Etty, Gorman, Gurney, Hardie, Mangan, McNeill, Meade, Dhombnaill, O’Duill, Teti, Jude the Obscure, Paul Muldoon/Stephen Magee. Book Reviews: O’Rawe, O’Duibheagain, Page. Cover by Eileen Ferguson.
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editors: Ruth Carr, Frank Sewell. Contributors: Barbour, Bennett, Brennan, Burnside, Dawe, de Freine, Dingle, Easter, Fanning, Halligan, Martin, Mason, McCleary, McLaughlin, McNellie, Phillips, Shepperson, Skloot, Stewart, Jude the Obscure. Book Reviews: Clyde, Kell, Wheatley, Armstrong (Armstring in contents), McGrath, Johnston, Page, McCusker, Newmann, O’Donnell, O’Hare, O’Duibh. Cover by Jo Slade.
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editors: Ruth Carr, Frank Sewell. Contributors: Longley, E., Adams, Brownjohn, Findlay, Parkinson, Byron, McGuckian, Patten, Bennett, Byard, Hardie, Smyth, Speers, Baird, Burnside, Mullins, Bakewell, Fitzpatrick-Simmons, Newmann, Quinn, Cannon, Quigley, Barratt, Kennelly, Johnston, O’Callaghan, Thornton, O’Shea, Quinn, Freine, Twomey, McDonald, Wheeler, Bachmann/O’Donnell, McCleary, Speers, Anderson, Conor, Hull, Gebler, Medbh, Houston, Miller, O’Duill, Callan, Reilly, McLaughlin, Woods, Rumens, Pirrie, Longley M., Tobin, Dhuibhne. Front cover by: Gertrude Degenhardt.
Sam Harris an obituary by Robert Greacen. Autumn Journals theme Journal. Atlanta. Poem. Edna Longley. Racism, Sectarianism. 19th September 1996. Randy Adams. family died, brother sibling car-crash car crash. Snapshots from a childhood. Sandy Brownjohn nature landscape trees flowers. Game-Keepers game keepers. grandfather granddad grandson Alastair Findlay Wild Rose Barbara Parkinson. St Tomas Aquinas in MacNeice's House. Nuns catholic Catholicism religion question questioning. Catherine Byron. Something Called Sleep Medbh McGuckian The Sweetshop Sweet Shop on the corner of Baggot Street kids community sweets society Dublin memory memories nostalgia. The Last Summer Martin Bennett. Nature. Season Seasons farm farming countryside industry change. Time IV Olivia Byard. caterpillar butterfly meadow. Summer's End. Kerry Hardie birds swallows martins. Meditation On a Wet day. Marie Smyth magpies magpie lily lilies. field mountains. Granny McKendry's Hens. class parable know your place. God. chickens. Neill Speers Day's End. Jameson Baird dusk day's end work labour labor men The Crows of BallyShaskey Ardmore birds Sam Burnside. The Pet-Bees bullying sexist sexism frustration loneliness. Tom Mullins. Lamass Tide Lagan Belfast river polluted pollution salmon fish Martin Bakewell. Time and Tide lost fear death died suicide Dark Water Janet Fitzpatrick-Simmons Fitzpatrick Simmons. family loss tragedy child children babies baby. Renvyle Peninsula Grace O'Malley dolphins Fitzpatricks Tully O'Malley's tower. Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons At Rathlin West Lighthouse for Anita lone loneliness sea wave puffin puffins fulmar fulmars Joan Newmann Bella Quinn, humour humorous humourous seasons conkers falling leaves time pass passing. The Red Tree Moya Cannon beacon spiritual spirituality. October Cold, Lizzie. sex sexuality landscape oneness fallen tree Nina Quigley. Lightening. Shelia Barrett. nostalgia memory memories. Fall Music. Poem. Dublin MacNeice music think sing singing question poet Brendan Kennelly. Hidden Gold. Shelia Johnston. seeing see vision shame ashamed judge judgement Autumn Foliage Julie O'Callaghan time passing humour funny hurry rush quick quickly Leaving Red Valerie Thornton illness seasons death recover recovery religion miracle hospital. Autumn Journals issue Editor Ann McKay. Prose In memory of Sam Harrison by Robert Greacen. Atlanta Journal Edna Longley. Racisim, poor. rich. Orange. Greem sectarianism. USA Northern Ireland. Poem. 19th September 1996. Randy Adams. Family death brother mortality ashes cremation spread spreading the. sadness memory memories. Snapshots from a Childhood. (for me sister Ann) Saandy Brownjohn. children playing family fun nature cornfields memory memories happy happiness. Game-Keepers gamekeepers Alastair Findlay grandfather grandson children play help family raise brought up. memories memory. Wild Rose Barbara Parkinson roses, flowers plucked picked nature love death decay. St Thomas Aquinas in MacNeice's House. Catherine Byron. Poem. Nuns Louis MacNeice home house school lessons religion questions faith belief stupidity. Something Called Sleep. Poem. Medbh McGuckian. time art artist painting music windows. The Sweetshop on the Corner of Baggot Street Sweet shop. Poem. Prose. Brian Patten. Sweets childhood pain suffering memories memory children kids social community family winter summer. weather. Dublin. Ireland. The Last of Summer. Poem. Martin Bennett. Summer nature time passing weather farming farm birds flowers. Time IV (Extract from a work in progress) Olivia Byard. Prose. Butterflies seasons season summer caterpillar butterflies moths beauty change emerge. Summer's End. Poem. Kerrie Hardie time passing nature flora fauna sadness. Meditation on a Wet Day. Poem. Marie Smyth. Consider the Lillies of the Field bible Matthew 7 26-29 foowers natural narure comparison with human humanity pure fine array. Granny McKendry's Hens. poem. Neill Speers. chickens trees class ideas above their station know your place. Day's End. Jameson Baird. Poem. work labour labor farm farmer farming fields harvest tired spring autumn. The Crows of Ballyshaskey. Poem. Sam Burnside. crows birds nature Autumn. Fall. The Pet-Bees. the Pet Bees. Tom Mullins. Memories bees harass girls male boys sting run loneliness frustration. Lammas Tide. Martin Bakewell. Lagan Belfast River salmon leaping fish nature. Time and Tide. Sandy Brownjohn. Poem. lost fear sand sea death drowned drown memories age years hide run can't. Dark Water Dark-Water Janice Fitzpatrick-Simmons. History geography family death love ;loss lost sea land landscape. At Rathlin West Lighthouse. land sea nature history communion one. animals fish. Joan Newmann. Autumn. Bella Quinn. Fall, conkers chestnuts fall winter. The Red Tree. Poem. Moya Cannon. nature leaves falling guide lamp. October Cold (for Lizzie) Nina Quigley. love sex nature plants. Lightening. Shelia Barrett, Poem. mature trees, family parents grandparents home house domestic domesticity. Fall Music. Autumn. Brendan Kennelly. Louis MacNeice poet argument singing insult. Hidden Gold. Poem. Shelia Johnston. trees gloomy. sunlight shone ashamed. Julie O'Callaghan. Poem. Autumn Foliage trees falling. Leaving Red. Valerie Thornton. illness sickness hospital tubes recovery miracle. The Fall. Poem. Colm O'Shea. leaves falling chestnuts conkers game. Asylum. Poem. Damian Quinn. priests childhood gather. Conkering Hero Celia de Frene . Poem. Rathmines, Dublin. Connections. Joan Newmann. Mary Twomey. wishes friendship left leaving. Rose-Hip Rose Hip Rosehip Ranald McDonald oil decay rot blackness. Fugitive Arcadia. for Chris Malvern Hills Indian Summer picnic friendship love late lateness last. Olivia Byard. Preserving. jam making creative creativity past present future labelled named museum. Sally Wheeler. Autumn Manoeuvres. Ingeborg Bachmann translated by translation by Mary O'Donnell. escape unreal from reality. When I feel like this. depressed depression hide stay hidden help cure. McKendry's Uncle who broke turnips on his head. satire colour drip drugs consequence drug-trip. Helen McCleary Neill Speers. Fiction Prose The Fall. Linda Anderson. Priest celibacy broken sin vows sex love falling in hypocrisy Aegean Journal. Colette Connor. Greece October. holidays trip vacations fun happiness happy joy food drink drunk. Poem. Inver Eclogue Gerry Hull. football sectarianism. Larne Carrick Glasgow Rangers Ibrox County Antrim Shield. Autumn and Me. Julie O'Callaghan. mood, moodiness. Tuesday 10th October. Prose Poem. Barnhill George Orwell, Hunting, tourism blood sport sports. missing. deer. cruelty Dream of a Yellow Wolf. Maighread Medbh outcase nature animal wildness humanity kill survive instinct. instinctual feminine Autumn Elemental London Brisbane Australia England UK Britain travel Boeing 747 plane aeroplane fly flight story stories tales airport Princess Di Diana car crash death royal news. death rat Bangkok Thailand stop over. Bristol poetry Libby Houston. Seed. Martin Bennett. Poem. Icarus. fall rise change changing . A Touch of Autumn. change passing time changing quick fast quickly. Aine Miller. Autumn's Fall. Kerry Hardie. Change decay darkness fear. Mountain Morning October Ice Mainin Sheaca I ndeireadh Fomhair Greagoir O Duill Irish Gaelic mist fog cold coldness uncertain uncertainty. Being Fringed With Frost/ Poem. Ranald McDonald. leave leaving go change changing fear frightened fright. Near Benone, Derry. County Londonderry Doire. frustration refusal argument accord. sex. Diminishing Aine Miller. aging age older getting. Autumn in Pennsylvania. Poem. Iggy McGovern. Lancaster Country. USA America. Amish. Spring. late lateness might have been regrets no. Opportunity Rhoda Watson. infighting in-fighting in fighting racism black grey squirrels. Hallowe'en in barnetts Park. Halloween. Lagan, Belfast mistletoe, berries, nightshade, snowberry poison witches feminist. Sally Wheeler. In Illinois. children father, family life passing death trick or treat sweets candy. Mary Rose Callan. Bonfire Night. Anne-Marie Reilly childhood memories fear. Del;iver Them From Fire. Extract from The Elysium Testament. work in progress a. Fiction prose poem. animal sacrifice cats dogs celebration. children. kids. masks false faces. Marilyn McLaughlin. love winter no fireworks Dancing Fountains of Strasbourg weather extreme. Harvest Late October. Paul Wilkins. assignation clandestine affair unfaithful. sex love. All saints All souls sadness. A Flurry of Church-Going. Mairide Woods. confession. indulgences purgatory heaven prayers Hail Mary Our Father Glory Be tradition religion theology grace state of. Carol Rumens. Life puberty childhood sexuality sexual development childhood marriage orgasm progress exams learning learned family children death. Darkness, Roses. short days daylight fades fear safety fire.safe unsafe certainty uncertainty. Helen McCleary. Cherubs, Chocolates and Chrysanthemums. Jill Pirrie death grandmother family illness old age awkwardness memory alive live within. For Granny J. Maura Johnston November death loss sea Toome Sargasso Sea loneliness loss. Guard Duty. Poem. Mary Rose Callan. shooting neon murder killing injury phone box telephone. Janet Quigg's Cat. Michael Longley. cats roadkill survive bloody Finaghy or Knock. Belfast. Bawnmore Road. Last Images. Colette Connor. memories memory senses sensuality. Maybe September Carole Evans. Grainne Tobin, Cancer stages life death chemo letters process illness. In the Hour of our Death. Kate Cruise O'Brien. Eilis Ni Dhuibhne. Death knowledge taken away Trinity Square Dublin.
Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone: Contributors: Whitworth, Ewart, Daugherty, Gallagher, Curtis, Longley, Turner, Silcock, Szites, Montrose, Paulin, Johnstone, Dawe, Smyth, Runin, Cassidy, Cooke, Cash, Watt, Roper, Bigger (Jude the Obscure). Book Reviews: Carson, McDonald, McGuckian, Johnstone, Montrose, Maguire, Dawe.
poem, john whitworth, he is at present working on a novel, party, writer, writing, author, youth, emotion, people, relationships, art, characters, poem, gavin ewart, a journalist speaks out (in horror), edward field, the queen, shit, excrement, private parts, royalty, privacy, monarchy, poem, gavin ewart, three so-called sonnets, sonnet: o, my god!, religion, hallelujah, allah, jewish, roman catholic, destruction, poem, gavin ewart, sonnet: supernatural beings, women, woman, virgin mary, bodies, real, magic, angels, belief, poem, gavin ewart, sonnet: the last days, schubert in delirium, illness, death, age, old, hospital, possessions, poem, michael daugherty, lines from no-man’s-land, house, domestic, television, smoking, haunting, ghosts, wife, marriage, poem, simon curtis, die-hard, innocence, innocent, normandy, england, national service, poem, katherine gallagher, childless woman, mother, child, time, aging, women, essay, edna longley, shit or bust: the importance of keith douglas, poet, collected poems, poem, bill turner, apparatus: a rant, dogs, pets, dirt, animals, humans, darwin, slaughter, butcher, cruelty, horses, morality, poem, bill turner, caviare for the swans, birds, river, duckweed, food, plants, green, poem, ruth silcock, the use of animals in research, richard ryder, victims of science, morality, humanity, humans, empathy, suffering, science, poem, george szirtes, after attila, storm, weather, lightning, landscape, petals, nature, grass, poem, david montrose, about john clare, jim burns, eliot, poetry, poet, writing, countryside, nature, poem, david montrose, the cocknew beneath the skin, bow bells, speech, speaking, accent, class, poem, david montrose, family business, occasions, ceremony, church, funeral, wedding, home, letter, tom paulin, university of virginia, another look at the filed day question, field day pamphlets, robert johnstone, seamus heaney, review, letter, robert johnstone, poem, gerald dawe, sunday walk at ross, sea, coast, shore, searoods, cormorants, meeting, poem, gerald dawe, eternal homes, gerald dawe, rover, driving, sea shore, rock of ages, relationship, poem, gerald dawe, the desert campaign, donaghadee, community, place, sea shore, day-trip, travel, poem, gerald dawe, outside queen’s, queen’s university, trees, yeats, library, students, poem, gerard smyth, loneliness, june, wasteland, urban, night, rain, houses, travel, poem, gerard smyth, fever, hospital, night, soup, calm, illness, sick, nightime, fiction, ivan bunin, consuming fire, translation, michael pursglove, russian, saint-germain, isiah 33:14, cremation, death, paris, funeral, mourning, grief, burning, ceremony, poem, john cassidy, sea-lions off monterey, sea, animals, encounter, shore, coast, pacific, poem, john cassidy, waiting for the cable car, california, poem, angela cooke, brother, christmas card, running, childhood, siblings, family, nostalgia, poem, peter cash, going home, farm, rural, countryside, seasons, weather, lovers, leaving, poem, lucy anne watt, running away, childhood, dolls, child, play, night, doubt, poem, mark roper, signals, pollinators, flowers, insects, colour, fly, bee, poem, mark roper, brown study, scent, smell, father, memory, repulsion, brown, sensation, death, loss, love, extract from a novel, business section, joe biggar, jude the obscure, the good districts and the bad districts, millbank, farset, clifden, school, society, class, sex, adolscence, men, gender, review, ciaran carson, sweeneys ancient and modern, sweeney astray: a version from the irish, seamus heaney, review, peter mcdonald, geoffrey hill, the mystery of the charity of charles peguy, the lords of limit: essays on literature and ideas, review, a kind of english, the kingfisher, amy clampitt, review, robert johnstone, well-mannered verses, a round hose, matthew sweeney, minding ruth, aidan carl mathews, review, david montrose, in search of lost times, the ice factory, philip gross, saying hello at the station, selima hill, review, david montrose, michael foley, on the outside track, the go situation, cartoon, martyn turner, the passion of jamesie coyle, review, patrick maguire, derry gospel, armagh masterpiece, the passion of jamesie coyle, michael foley, come day - go day, john o’connor, review, gerald dawe, how’s your culture sticking out?, a fair fay: photographs from the west of ireland, martia parr, fintan o’toole,
Editors: Frank Ormsby, Robert Johnstone: Contributors: Carson, McGuckian, Muldoon, Dawe, Elliott, Magee, O’Logy, Jude the Obscure, Whitworth, Lomas, Carr, Smith, Rooney, Taylor, Cooke, Foster. Book Reviews by: Longley, Simmons, McDonald, Parker, Montrose, Johnstone, McBride, Dawe.
poem, ciaran carson, dresden, horse boyle, carrick, place, current affairs, ireland, donegal, rock, land, local, war, people, poem, medbh mcguckian, what does ‘early’ mean?, spring, ending, meaning, thought, rain, poem, medbh mcguckian, mrs orchard, house, home, december, winter, colour, wood, daughter, poem, paul muldoon, gone, forgetting, memory, smells, venetian goblets, poem, gerald dawe, shades, military band, soldiers, belfast, victory parade, people, photographs, past, memory, poem, andrew elliott, three mohicans or, what happens when you sleep, litter, rubbish, waste, eggs, hair, poem, andrew elliott, the cockatoo and the mill-horse, birds, flight, feathers, poem, wes magee, before the bench, 1864, gala, insanity, health, illness, asylum, poem, wes magee, littoral, tide, sea, litter, dusk, shore, poem, jean e. o’logy, spoof, for michael-the-mensch longley and with apologies to mr muldoon, mesghugannah, family, language, yiddish, schmuck, jewish, sex, essay, the hu business section, jude the obscure, henry de montherlant, france, french, literature, writer, the bachelors, poem, john whitworth, books are a load of books, protest, youth, the beatles, culture, poetry, literature, life, poet, family, parent, poem, herbert lamas, all souls’ day, mother, father, death, dead, childhood, identity, poem, sally carr, the snow builders, building, winter, play, children, poem, iain crichton smith, weeds, plants, nature, growth, poem, padraig rooney, the stamp collector, collection, collecting, avenue matignon, pictures, history, miniatures, poem, ron taylor, yo mi revisits his origins, home, poet, china, chinese, place, return, drinking, poetry, poem, angela cooke, gardener’s question time, radio, plants, garden, emotions, gardener, shrub, destruction, empathy, article, essay, john wilson foster, the critical condition of ulster, northern ireland, queens university, seamus deane, heroic styles: the tradition of an idea, declan kiberd, anglo-irish attitudes, seamus heaney, open letter, review, edna longley, north’s neglected consciousness, field day pamphlets, terence brown, the whole protestant community: the making of a historical myth, marianne elliott, watchmen in sion: the protestant idea of liberty, r. l. mccartney, liberty and authority in ireland, review, james simmons, brian friel, catholic playwright, selected plays of brian friel, introduced by seamus deane, review, peter mcdonald, starting to explore the prod mind, across a roaring hill: the protestant imagination in modern ireland, ed., gerald dawe, edna longley, review, michael parker, priest of the muses, michael longley, poems 1963-1983, review, david montrose, story lines, dangerous play: poems 1974-1984, review, robert johnstone, destiny of opposition, selected poems by pier paolo pasolini, trans., norman mcafee, luciano martinengo, review, david montrose, a carabinieri’s lot, the day of the owl, equal danger, leonardo sciascia, review, steve mcbride, small masterpiece, large disaster, the ferret fancier, as towns with fire, anthony c. west, review, gerald dawe, what happened to the decent life?, fighting with shadows, dermot healy,
Editors: Michael Foley/Frank Ormsby: Foley, Hanson, Muldoon, Marrow, Simmons, Ormsby, McLaughlin, Jamison, Terry, Cassidy, Squires. Thirty two Pages plus Cover.
editorial, michael foley, absurd policy, absurdity, laughter, satire, politics, poem, catherine hanson, country bird, city, hot, heat, weather, flirt, girls, poem, paul muldoon, centre piece, ass, relationship, emotions, ear, bite, poem, paul muldoon, taking the rust, horse, turnip, work, daddy, father, word, traces, fiction, john morrow, a heart and a half, wedding, violence, family, story, belfast, fighting, fight, poem, james simmons, nigeria 1967, africa, native, beauty, poem, james simmons, the bonfire, africa, straw man, fire, flames, guy fawkes, apartheid, tradition, culture, mob, gunpowder plot, review, frank ormsby, the short stories of james plunket, poem, michael foley, autumn leaves, work, university, travel, routine, boredom, science, tedium, poem, tom mclaughlin, infinite striptease, writing, drinking, drunk, alcohol, soul, expression, poetry, reader, writer, fiction, michael jamieson, the experts, army, soldier, sergeant, men, masculinity, song, singing, sex, mocking, mockery, initiation ceremony, humiliation, poem, translation, arthur terry, luis cernuda, spanish, christmas eve, 1951, human, isolation, cold, winter, love, religion, kings, shepherds, christ, god, poem, frank ormsby, marriage, letter, romance, relationship, age, irish, mate, love, poem, frank ormsby, stock car, motor, vehicle, damage, crash, race, essay, michael foley, education, school, poetry, literature, teaching, university, teacher, poem, john cassidy, the last of the…, age, old, past, memory, stories, poem, john cassidy, not in so many words, love, gesture, affection, romance, connection, relationship, moment, bar, essay, geoffrey squires, saner than thou?, politics, literature, catholic, protestant, republican, unionist, irish, british, conflict, U.S.A., identity, north, south,
Editor: James Simmons: Contributors: Stewart, Mahon, Middleton, Gahern, Ewart, Heaney, Ward, Magee, Holland, Brindley, Friel, Morrow, Barham, Longley, Allen, Purglove, Watkin, Simmons, Grog, Mulholland.
Essay, john d. stewart, how it is, a brief analysis of the northern ireland problem today, troubles, unionist, unionism, derry, job, home, vote, politics, society, public housing, electorate, reform, terence marne o’neill, orange, council, orange-unionist, homeless. homelessness, civil rights, civil rights association, william craig, special powers, resistance, poem, derek mahon, 1 corinthians 13, speech, words, language, love, knowledge, mind, body, wisdom, poem, kate middleton, three mourne songs, pebbles, beach, stones, nature, unique, travelling, holiday, airport, journey, climbing, mountain, walk, hill, view, vision, space, silence, nature, commercial, advertising, escape, height, God poem, kate middleton, back of bingnion, family, past, mother, grandmother, parent, grandparent, home, women, work, housework, time, kitchen, food, heat wave, song, wales, kate middleton, poem, his & hers, relationship, men, women, house, home, car, family, countryside, difference, marriage, prologue, reading at the rockefeller university, john mcgahern, rhythm, vision, art, ekphrasis, images, visual, religion, form, struggle, life, poem, gavin ewart, the sea-pig, water, ocean, bathyscaphe, boat, deep, hunting, hunt, search, alien, scotoplanes, deep sea, animal, invertebrate, abysse, animal, poem, gavin ewart, the young seduction poem, writing, courting, love, romance, car, motor, essay, seamus heaney, writer at work, writing, words, language, literature, discovery, making, composition, poet, authorship, self, identity, poems, poetry, poem, seamus heaney, the forge, hearth, metal, labour, blacksmith, tool, dark, craft, work, tradition, interior, poem, conor ward, yard stick, women, love, romance, perfection, relationship, relationships, false, bodies, measuring, poem, wes magee, ideas, thinking, thought, mind, imagination, writing, car, cars, motor, traffic, urban, town, poem, w. j. holland, a short piece of fiction, work, factory, life, loss, past, labour, searching, youth, age, poem, terry brindley, from the market, apples, fruit, food, body, sensation, selling, buying, urban, poem, terry brindley, gross evidence of paranoid thinking: for the bird, against the frog, black, servitude, service, work, labour, sensation, inequality, blood, trauma, society, poem, michael friel, granite sky defection, nature, weather, city, urban, industry, industrial, cloud, stone, dark, rain, apathy, lethargy, street, society, breath, breathing, life, baptism, regeneration, fiction, john morrow, the impresario, work, labour, money, boat, boats, shipbuilding, letter, john hewitt, to the editor, austin clark, letter, hamish henderson, celts, pre-celtic, ireland, ancient history, review, tony bareham, john hewitt, collected poems 1932-67, review, edna longley, derek mahon, night crossing, review, walter allen, j. r. ackerly, my father and myself, review, michael pursglove, andrei voznezensky, antiworlds and the fifth ace, translated, w. h. auden, review, roger watkin, alan sillitoe, guzman go home, review, james simmons, gavin ewart, the deceptive grin of the gravel porters, poem, a christmas ballad, parasites, merry, sing, singing, cheer, insects, flies, drink, vice,
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,
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a case for reform, kevin boyle, patricia maynes, homosexuality, gay, homosexual, sex, abortion, rights, human rights, law, women, reform, call for action, discrimination, poem, james michie, martial, ranslations, translations, women, girl, girls, death, Rome, marriage, sex, relationships, history, poem, w. price turner, driven at night, wife, relationships, lust, moon, jealousy, want, tenth commandment, covet, covetousness, envy, marriage, poem, w. price turner, metamorphosis, truth, knowledge, toad, prince, deception, change, transformation, fiction, denis ireland, fragment from a work in progress, greece through the bottom of a glass darkly, kavala, british consulate, military, greek islands, espionage, spy, german, bulgarian, thrace, poem, jim burns, the old man’s letter to his wife, alone, lonely, loneliness, home, house, domestic, loss, death, memory, love, marriage, wife, money, poem, jim burns, the sky is crying, rain, weather, cloud, nature, autumn, dock, vehicles, munster, love, relationship, relationships, loss, travel, water, arnsberg, memory, memories, romance, poem, frank ormsby, growing up, childhood, bog, family, child, home, house, domestic, rain, weather, nostalgia, age, aging, past, adventure, romance, essay, john d. stewart, take me to your leader, human rights association, university, education, knowledge, accessibility, information, society, literacy, learning, wisdom, ulster, school, class, social mobility, humanity, ignorance, prejudice, unionist party, phelim o’neill, john mcquade, politics, poem, bill welch, salamander, salamanders, nature, animals, dark, light, darkness, snow, temperature, frozen, cold, winter, poem, bill welch, i hunt dragons, kill, myth, beast, animal, humour, poem, s. burnside, buriel, cold, minister, church, death, funeral, burial, love, emptiness, dead, time, poem, peter e. drenman, two poems, bird, morning, night, work, birdsong, silence, poem, peter e. drenman, a little hymn, lord, religion, king, power, royalty, royal, leadership, guidance, mistake, ignorance, disappointment, governance, poem, w. j. holland, hot poem, poetry, womb, stage, skulls, blood, surreal, letter, g. h. clancy, review, james simmons, i am mary dunne, brian moore, review, james simmons, my father’s son, frank o’connor, autobiography, review, james simmons, after experience, w. d. snodgrass, review, michael stephans, angel beak poems, bill welsh, review, michael stephans, iliad of broken sentences, rosemary tonks, review, michael stephans, the night of stone, george macbeth, review, tony barham, in the wilderness and other poems, james simmons, review, padraic fiacc, three holy blue flower people, blue house, james liddy, poem, song, james simmons, sandy, riding down to bangor, age, aging, travel, time, past, love, poem, poster, have you been to london, norman nicholson,
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