Editors: Ruth Hooley, Robert Johnstone: Contributors: Rogers, Clyde, Dawe, O’Neill, Carson, Jude the Obscure, McGuckian, Hill, O’Donnell, Lynch, Simmons, Moran, Smith, Scammell, Dallat, Whitworth, Book Reviews: Parker, Allen, Johnstone, Raine, Jude the Obscure, Duhig, Craig, Paulin. Cover: W. R. Rodgers.
Editors: Ruth Hooley, Robert Johnstone: Contributors: Wright, Lynch, Broomfield, Clifton, Dubnov, O’Ruaric, Morgan, Byard, McMahon, Craig, Kelly, Wilson, Whelan, Prichard, Pople, Silcock, Pickford, Hearne, Kirkup, McCarthy, Cartwright, Wills, McHugh, Fahey, McDonald, Mortimer, Jude the Obscure, Eward, Lorca/Williams, Quinn, Halligan, Farren, Crowe, Easter, Wilson, Rice, Montgomery, McManus, Donaghy. Book Reviews: McAuley, O’Brien, Kennedy, McGuckian, Power, Burnside, Parker, O’Drisceoil, Keenan, Craig, Johnstone, Hooley.
Editors: Robert Johnstone, Tom Clyde. Editorial Assistant: Devin Johnston. Contributors: Hill, Whitworth, O’Callaghan, McGuckian, Sullivan, McManus, Jude the Obscure, Simpson, Curtis, Hull, Smith, Watt, Deane, Dawe, Bennett, Plaice, Yarker, Hodgson, Etty, McDonnell, Dallat, Foley. Book Reviews: Ingoldby, Mooney, O’Drisceoil, McAuley, Kennedy, Parker, Craig, Hooley. Cover by Gerard Mangan.
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editor: Ruth Hooley. Contributors: Dugdale, Hobsbaum, Newmann, Scott, Longley M, Parker, Heaney, Longley E, Dawe, Donaldson, Dugdale, Crawford, Mooney, McNulty, Fanning, Harmon, Tobin, Hurson, Burnside, Jude the Obscure, Hancock, McAllister, Bailey, McCarthy, Sverdrup/Munizer, Phillips, Ace, Batson, Dubnov/Heath-Stubbs, Forster, Halligan, Austin. Book Reviews: Clyde, Craig, Williams, Keenan. Cover by Tim Stampton.
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: Parker, Bourke, Newmann, O’Toole, Anderson, Ace, Berkeley, Burrows, Byard, Daugherty, Dawe, Greacen, Greene, Haller, Harvey, Holmes, Markworthy, Martin, McBreen, McGovern, Murray, O’ Muiri, Rogan, Simmons, Tuffin, Jude the Obscure, Gavin Ewart/Ruth O’Callaghan. Book Reviews: Clyde, Keenan, Water, McGrath, O’Suili, Comer, An Sagart Santach, An Spailpin Spionta. Cover by Jimmy McGuinness.
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.
Editors: Tom Clyde, Robert Johnstone: Editorial Assistant: Devin D. Johnston. Contributors: Simmons, Foley, Ormsby, Johnstone, Hooley, Longley E, Dallat, Jude the Obscure, Longley M, Carson, Muldoon, McGuckian, Morrow, Hill, Adcock, Morgan, Paulin, Whitworth, Newmann, Duhig, Ewart, O’Toole, Hughes, Dawe, Johnston F, Aridjiis/McWhirter, Clifton, Brady, Robinson, Houston, Hobesbaum, McFadden, Burnside, Sommer, Kirkpatrick, Turner, Gallagher. Book Reviews: Rumens, Clyde, Herbert, Whitworth, Mooney, Craig, Johnston D, Morrison.
Editor: Tom Clyde. Contributors: Keery, Simmons, Wells, Bushe, Clutterbuck, Brennan, Duffy, Shepperson, Wheatley, Hearne, Kennedy, Mac Intyre, Mackey, McBreen, Curtis, Murphy, O’Sullivan, Quinn, Wright, Dawe, Jude the Obscure, Saleh, Dixon, Byard, Foster, Graham, Furney, Bennett, Montrose, Holmes, Kelly, Phillips, Paterson, Tillinghast,. Book Reviews: Craig, Water, Simpson, Whitworth, Mooney, Clyde.
Editor: Tom Clyde: Contributors: Gorman, Bennett, Byard, O’Ciarain, Etty, Galbraith, Goodby, Harkin, Heslop, Holmes, Kelly, Mac Intyre, McBreen, McMahon, O’Donnell, Oxley, Wright, Zell, Jude the Obscure, Parker, McInosh, Longley M. Book Reviews: McAteer, Quinn, O’Doyle, McGrath, de Freine, Geary, Oxley, Lyttle, Carrillo, Dawe, McMahon, McIntosh. Cover by Clyde Holmes.
Fras Shower Irish Translation Poem. Rody Gorman. Shower. Missing. Lost. Gone. Da Chanan Two Languages. difference misunderstanding understanding. The Saltings Charles Bennett river nature change water time. Goldrush Oliva Byard friendship romance family connection kiss loss abandonment memory memories. Laenunachas Niall O'Ciarain. ego knowledge confidence reassurance. Continuity. A Pause for Drinks on the Viking way. school days pupils heat love metaphor. Robert Etty activities week. Waiting for my Daughter birth family mother mother's love child born birth waiting. Janet Galbraith Susanna. The Blow Ins John Goodby. Blow-Ins journey storms darkness drive nature garden farmer vegetables. The Jesuit's Visit. Michael P. Harkin. Religion visit priest elderly old Half-Way up Cheviot sin corruption blessing kind kindness. Half Way Up Cheviot. Helen Heslop holiday couple nature memory memories love remember forget nothing. Haiku Clyde Holmes. Cwm Hesgin Translations from the French Prophesy Jules Supervielle Apocalypse apocalyptic dystopian The Point of Flame. Death. From the Russian. Russian Deadlines. Alexander Pushkin death dying serfdom Alexander Blok salt Lot lot's wife Anna Akmatova St. Petersburg. Saint. Meet again. Georgy Ivanov Nice Southern France emigration immigration. Osip Mandelstam. Translated by Conor KellyThit se as Leabhar Old Postcard. row fight anger misunderstood. Tom Macintyre MacIntyre Poppies in Dominick Street St. Joan McBreen. speech lecture listen ideas. Pip John McMahon knowledge universe God knowing possible impossible. Heimat Home Mary O'Donnell Childhood innocence Griggy Drumgarn Tiraneill Coolshannagh Tullyhirim Kilnacloy Kilnadreen nature fields Troubles. Spirits in the Marina, Torquay, tourism holidays Dartmoor pale England English. William Oxley. A Good Drying Day. Agoraphobia Scotland land sea birds Arran Ballintrae Jura Howard Wright from Upstream Claiming stroke, father struck down hospital wheelchair family apprentice church illness Communication moping baking insight never been born bread making. Upstream road trip roadtrip America patriotism Americans winter cabin snow. Single Combat corporal punishment slaps beating justice injustice father child brother. Eggs, Eclipses Solar Lunar Happenings Father children farming chickens . Ann Zell. Jude the Obscure on Terry Southern. Levelling with Heaney 11 Michael Parker. Life is a series of oppositions. Images of Northern Ireland in the prose work of the poet WR Rogers. Gilliam McIntosh Obituary Jon Silkin Lar Cassidy An Appreciation Michael Longley Joep Leersen A. H. Van der Weel and Bart Weterweel (Editors)Forging in the Smithy: National Identity and Representation in Anglo-Irish Literary History. Michael McAteer. Paul Valery Le Juene Parque Enzenberger Hans Magnus Kiosk. Justin Quinn Maire Ni Cheilleachair Spiroc Bernie Doyle,
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.
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editors: Ruth Carr, Frank Sewell. Contributors: Mooney, Allen, Austin, Donaldson, Baird, Connolly, Daugherty, Early, Edwards, Egan, Emery, Farish, Fox, French, Galbraith, Graham, Pople, Greene, Gameau/Haller, Hardie, Karp-Gendre, Lawson, Mackel, Maguire, McCleary, McGrath, McPhelimy, Kell, Murphy Art, Murphy, Pat, Newmann, Ni Ghallchoir/Sewell, Ormsby, Strong, Agee, Jude the Obscure, Crowley/McLaverty, Greacen. Book Reviews by: Clyde, O’Donnell, McGrath, Goodby, Wheatley, Oxley, Murphy Paul, Horton. Cover by Ruth Colgan.
Prose. The Heating Engineer, Martin Mooney. Pubs, alcohol, memories memory. time rain weather. Discoveries. Poem. Gary Allen. Rathlin Island, sex love virginity lost Mull of Kintyre history exhumation colonialism. Spaniard. Preservation. history land museum preservation archaeologists archaeology. In Suspence Poem. Annemarie Austin. age death longing tired. fear. Moths. Moyra Donaldson. Poem. moths windows fagility death darkness battle conflict. 1944 Jameson Baird. War death WW2 Prussia East pigs slaughter slaughtered famer murder. Untitled TJ Connolly . nature warmth cold fear inside outside in out. Only a Mother, Only Today. Poem. Michael Daugherty. war family death conflict. generations generational. father son mother. The Library Patrick Early. Amela Boris curators National Library Sarajevo destroyed August 18 18th 1992. War destruction crime ethnic Serbia Croatia Bosnia Yugoslavia war crimes. WW1 World War 1 books burn library destroyed evidence lost fanatics religion. ethnicity ethnic. War. Poem. Nina Edwards. War urgency love. Making the Hayropes. Ann Egan. Poem. rope making craft, love lost marriage regret memory memories. Cruising. Poem. Christopher Emery. Suicide, hanging, family, friends. loss. memory. Twenty-Four Days. Helen Farish. Poem. Love loss, lust promise chance never not taken. train station railway rail. Clytaemnestra and Agamemnon. myths Greek revenge murder rape Cassandra. Anna and Simeon. Luke gospel, jealousy sexism feminism feminist messiah Jesus Christ. My Father's Bedroom. Poem. family father death lost memory smell scent loss. Adrian Fox. Running Girl, Bronze, Tom French, Poem. running athleticism imagining dreaming. (Alice Maher 1995) Night Drive. closeness family fear near death accident sheep mother son intimacy. Penelope Remembering. love sex, loss. Greek myths. mythology. Dolphin. Janet Galbraith. Poem. nature dolphins mystic mystical sea waves empathy feeling. Abschied. Poem. Desmond Graham. in memory August Macke. art artist painting painter paint. Pianism Ian Pople. piano playing music song play notes. soloveme only So Love Me only. Poem. Michel Garneau. translation translated by Aurian Haller. love loss friendship family nicknames violence death. I Thought of the Crows, How Old They are. Poem Kerrie Hardie. Crows winter death change loss. Old Men, The Maps in their Heads nature, trees metaphor ignorance. map mapping cartography psycho geography. Discovery Stockholm, Poem. Jacqueline Karp-Gendre ice breaking shifting sound sounds noise quiet. Winter in Suzhou. Poem. Sarah Lawson. Winter, school, local domestic domesticity Siberia. Buying Roast Chestnuts in Suzhou. Poem. foot warmth hot eat money winter. Ghost Flower Sean Mackel nature wind weather flower flowers. Dangerous Country. Poem. Muireann Maguire. landscape dangerous danger cliffs fear hills mountains. New Year's Eve. Poem. Helen McCleary trees winter nature love. from Najal's Saga, Section 17 Niall McGrath Poem. Fight battle death murder kill killing epic myth. Shadow. Poem. tv watch preacher evangelist false television. Swing. Kathleen McPhilemy. Poem. Swing Belfast bad girl's home childhood child children play. Energies. for Enid Radcliffe. present ornament outside weather window. gift. Richard Kell. Poem. Balm. Art Murphy. Poem. Painting painter art artist nude portrait mortician death dead funeral family. mother cousin sculpture masons headstones. jobs vocation help assist. John. Pat Murphy. Poem. War World War 1 one WW1 shell shock shellshock injury casualty death. Oh, Amelia it was just a false alarm. poem. for Catherine McDaid. Joan Newmann Ballyarnet Derry Amelia Earhart crash landing. Dealan an Aoibhnis Sparkler Poem. Irish Gaelic Translated translation by Frank Sewell family chastised granda grandfather lights up. charm charisma. Colette Ni Ghallchoir. Poem. Billy Wright UVF UDA Loyalist loyalism Troubles murder killed soldier cruelty. My Coat Mo Chota worn dirty coat with fine great silk lining. Buiochas Gee Thanks. crumbs plate table longing desire class master An Glen Mor. The Glen. security nature safe place safety. The Aluminium Box. Frank Ormsby. Poem. Films cinema actors nostalgia childhood. movies film canisters projectors. stars. Small World. Bus journey mortality drunk singing bus life banality living life. Revision Eithne Strong. Poem. Marriage Vows. redone. Seven Poems. Chris Agee. First Light. waking thoughts musings musing. Clapboard Gable. house domestic interior exterior home Dickens. Burning Cedar. offshoots cuts left behind useless shame guilt operative worker joiner carpenter. Sawdust. wood cut craft technique smell savour at one wholeness wellness. First Hour. Fox nature beauty sublime wildlife animals. At Six. Killybegs angelus prayer RTE break silence Irish Ireland. Flag-Iris Flag Iris flowers nature flora visit O'Searcaigh. The Business Section. Jude the Obscure on Terry Southern. A Michael McLaverty bibliography by Michael Crowley. Prose Robert Greacen. A Garden by the Sea Forrest Reid (1875 - 1947) Roy McFadden Collected Poems 1943 - 1995 reviewed by Tom Clyde Katherine Duffy The Erratic Behaviour of Tides. Anne Rouse, Timing, Ruth Sharman, The Birth of the Owl Butterflies reviewed by Mary O'Donnell, Adrian Mitchell, Heart on the Left Poems 1953 - 1984. Niall McGrath. Menna Elfyn Cell Angel reviewed by John Goodby. Tomas Transtromer, Collected Poems reviewed by David Wheatley, Peter Reading, Work in Progress reviewed by Wiliam Oxley. Brendan McMahon, Enemy Lines. reviewed by Paul Murphy. The Politics and Rhetoric of Poetry: Perspectives on Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry reviewed by Patricia Horton.
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editors: Ruth Carr, Frank Sewell. Contributors: Byard, Callimachi, Crooker, Dawe, Dullaghan, Hamberger, Holmes, Hull, Johnston, Kelley, Luery, Lynch, Mackey, Manibandhu, McBreen, Muldoon, Murray, Oxley, Phillips, Quigley, Skloot, Smith, Stevenson, Wright, Jude the Obscure, O’Searcaigh, Burleigh. Book Reviews by: McGrath, Murphy, Fitzgerald. Front cover by Collete Palmer. Free Print by Brian Gallagher.
Poem. The Milk Run, Oliva Byard. cows cattle cow milking dairy nature animals. The Anatomy of WildFlowers Wild Flowers Runmini Callimachi. Poem. family grandmother, nature surgery doctors cancer flowers. Romania. Meditation in Mid-October. Autumn, Fall, Wisconsin, Cancer, death choice, beginning end beginnings end. Barbara Crooker. Poem. Quartz, for Katrina Goldstone. Gerald Dawe. Emmigration. Immigration. Immigrants, Emigrants Immigrant Emigrant. Family ancestors. Ordnance Survey 24 - West Cork. Poem. Frank Dullaghan. maps, mapping geography history nature. Revolution. Poem. Robert Hamberger. gay homosexuality love lgbt repression hiding. Haiku. Clyde Holmes. Poem. Keats in Ireland. Gerald Hull, Poem. Belfast, Lagan, Dunluce, Donaghadee. Northern Ireland. Hawks Fred Johnston. Poem. Birds, flying, diving wildlife nature. Evenings. Ann Kelley. Poem. loss death missing lonely loneliness. Sometimes it's too late. Poem. Family, illness. hospital, pain, morphine, young, memories memory, loss, death. Staying the Night. Annabel Luery. Poem. Sex, love sleep intimacy, family child children. Apple Tree Angel dreams dream nightmare imagine family relative lover father mother sister brother. His Lover, love, sex physical beauty silence. In the City. Liam Lynch. Poem. birds starlings, urban, nature wildlife. Landfall. nature trees, flora. sea waves, meditation. solitary. Herring. Poem. Brian Mackey, fishermen drink drunks fight town pubs wives women pubs. Portrait Tobacco. woman, beauty disappointment tobacco paint painter, art artist portrait. Fifty Years. poem. Suddhisakti Manibandhu love passion desire. Camellia. Joan McBreen. flowers garden, grief love loss lost death separation name take control reclaim. Hibernus. nature, thought silence. Cradle Song for Asher. Paul Muldoon. Poem. child children birth hope. Homecoming. Poem. Paul Murray. Mournes, nature, flowers, mountains. The Burghers of Calais. William Oxley. Poem. Rodin sculpture art. France. The Ride Through Europe. Tim Phillips. travel borders lies, boredom, decay loss destruction contamination. pollution. Mr Lindlow death afterlife, mummified corpse. Blooding Nina Quigley. Poem. Autumn Fall Winter loss death decay grief grieving. Bulbs. growth flowers waiting birth nature. Gutted. Love children arguments argue strange blame guilt. The Tsar Comes to Amity Czar. Poem. Floyd Skloot. Nicholas. dreams hallucinations illness, Russia mushrooms, age sick sickness. End Stage. Illness death fragility. The Scat Singer. Poem. safety familiarity, family fear, familiar. Bee in Amber RT Smith. Poem. Beauty spiritual. Sourwood. beekeeping bees honey tradition ritual feat. Cowboys in Winter. Poem. John Stevenson. hospitals addiction guilt. waster useless. Flesh and Blood Howard Wright. Army Somme War gas curry colonial colonialism. exotic food curry. TB illness blood cough coughing. industrial industry. The Business Section. Jude the Obscure on Music Mostly French Cesar Franck. Cathal O Searcaigh interviewed by Niall McGrath Solitary Mystic. Free Brian Gallagher Print. The Blackburn and the Frog. Japan Japanese culture David Burleigh Cathal O' Searcaigh, Out in the Open reviewed by Niall McGrath, Gunter Grass, Selected Poem 1956 - 1993 reviewed by Paul Murphy, Frances Molloy, Women are the Scourge of the Earth reviewed by Jennifer Fitzgerald. Robert Greacen Ecstasy, Adrian Henry, The World's your Lobster, Joan Maizels, Stepping Gently reviewed by Paul Murphy. Milan Kundera, Identity, reviewed by Paul Murphy
Editor: Tom Clyde. Associate Editors: Ruth Carr, Frank Sewell. Contributors: Allen, Baillie, Bennett, Egan, Faulkner, French, Higgins, Holmes, Mac Lochlainn, McAteer, McMahon, Sheperton, Werner, Jude the Obscure, Sewell, Greacen, Fitzgerald, Mephisto. Book Reviews by: Fitzgerald, Coyle, Early, McMahon, Coyle, Monahan, Oxley, Murphy. Cover by: P Blairy.
Editorial by Tom Clyde. Return to Galway. Gary Allen. Poem. Memory Memories, regret, loss, sex, love. Keats Coughs. Tony Ballie. Illness. sickness, Italy, love, death. Snail. Poem. Charles Bennett, snail as metaphor for writing, creativity. The Runaway. Finbar Dennis, awake, waking wakefulness hunted pursued, nature. The East Wind. Poem Finbar Dennis. Poem. Progress, ruin, regret, loss, memory, memories. The Secret Flow. Ann Egan. Poem. builders cement craftsmanship creativity building technique. Cornucopia. Poem. Ashley Faulkner. Nature, fear, allergies, death, hypochondria hypochondriac safety. Ash. Tom French. Poetry. In memory memorial of Chris O'Neill. Death, ceremony, funeral, scattering ashes, sea rebirth. Hillsborough Lake, December 1998. Poem. Graham Higgin, Nature, lake, swimming, water, Belfast. Northern Ireland. Redstart, Poem, Clyde Holmes. Birds, nature, time, absence. Aistriuchain. Poem Gearoid Mac Lochlainn Translated by Frank Sewell. Irish Gaelic culture clash ignorance, rebel English uncomfortable. Cireib (An lasaoradh Pvt. Lee Clegg) Riot (On the Day Pvt. Lee Clegg was Released) Riots, Troubles, Northern Ireland. Gearoid Mac Lochlainn translated by Frank Sewell. Unreturned. Poem. Michael McAteer. Nature, sublime, connection, smallness. disappearing. spiritual spirituality. Pacific Highway. Poem. Brendan McMahon. road trip, countryside, nature, flowers, Australia. Communion. Janet Shepperson. Poem. Catholic Catholicism, church first communion, ceremony, clergy priests nature. The Origins Of Poetry. Peter Werner. Poem. Norse, Gods Odin, Loki, runes, Bragi, reality. praise. Business Section. Jude the Obscure on Gabriel Faure. On Translation Frank Sewell. Quotes about Translation. Prose Robert Greacen on Joyce Cary The Protestant Experience. Prose. Earth Residence Cultural Memory in the poetry of Derek Mahon and Seamus Heaney. Neil Fitzgerald. Mephisto Prose. The Idiot of the Family. Reflections of the Sicilian Mafia. Naples of the North. Poem. Portstewart. Neil Fitzgerald reviews Derek Mahon, Collected Poems, The Yellow Book. Derek Mahon Collected Poems reviewed by Derek Coyle. Paul Durcan Greetings to our friends in Brazil reviewed by Patrick Early. Gillian McInosh The Force of Culture Unionist identities In Twentieth Centurey Ireland. 20th. reviewed by Deirdre McMahon. John Montague, Smashing the Piano reviewed by Derek Coyle, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill The Water Horse reviewed by Derek Coyle. Frank McGuinness, The Sea With No Ships, Robert Greacen, Protestant Without A Horse. Poems by John Whitworth illustrated by Gerald Mangan from the sonnet history of modern poetry. John Stevenson, Cowboys in Winter, A Bitter Harvest, Images inspired by the 1798 Rising in Uster reviewed by Noel Monahan. Vona Groarke, Other People's Houses, Fault-Line Gordon Mason, Thomas Kinsella, The Familiar and Godhead. Lucy Brennan, Migrants all reviewed by William Oxley. The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, lorna Sage reviewed by Paul Murphy.