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alan bleakley, tremedda farm, storm, weather, rain, fox, animals, hunting, hunt, chickens, meat, chicken, poem, michael foley, information retrieval, facts, data, information, sex, gossip, reality, knowledge, poem, michael foley, strictly no re-admission, daddy cool, infidelity, fling, adultery, bojangles, bar, nightclub, lust, desire, poem, raymond tallis, meta-sonnet to the dark lady, night, lust, relationship, music, absence, emptiness, poem, peter mcdonald, interiors, 1, time, sleep, dream, clock back, night, 2, talent, nightmares, relationship, past, memory, 3, looking back, love, loss, underground, blue, colour, drinking, drink, sadness, poem, peter bennett, funny man, surgery, dance, injury, laughter, disability, poem, gavin ewart, a godly undertaking, evelyn waugh, soul, mole, men, pen, strong, wrong, prayer, poem, gavin ewart, how to write a poem in the american style, poetics, poetry, enjambment, ampersand, rhythm, poem, found poem, errata, poetry, catalogue, occasional clue, dragon-fly, numbers, durer, etching, art, saint george, poem, michael coady, the law of overhanging branches, tree, growth, property, ownership, landowner, roots, legal, boundaries, neighbours, poem, michael coady, wildlife spectacular, white rhino, mating, animals, sex, endangered species, wild animals, creation, living room, domestic, poem, aidan carl mathews, lawrence o’toole, confirmation, religion, names, lawrence of arabia, cinema, nazareth, middle east, saint, st lawrence, poem, medbh mcguckian, on not being your lover, love, intimacy, colour, desire, separation, poem, medbh mcguckian, the sudarium, child, stoicism, summer, autumn, poem, fleur adcock, coast to coast, for dannie abse and adrian henri, 1, west, shore to shining shore, canada, british columbia, victoria, lake district, landscape, environment, geography, home, travel, sea, place, pacific, 2, east, atlantic, saint john, new brunswick, antichrist, tourism, tourist, poem, william scammell, the world’s business, work, job, society, money, people, poem, carol rumens, fear, may, december, winter, snow, darkness, intimacy, lovers, sadness, companionship, sleep, relationship, poem, carol rumens, aubade, infant, baby, sleep, body, breath, breathing, presence, love, poem, jerry orpwood, playing the walkman, music, technology, listening, jogging, running, headphones, tape, poem, jerry orpwood, the father’s match, sports, pitch, fathers, play, family, poem, thomas mccarthy, the non-aligned storyteller, patrick white, the tree of man, memory, past, photographs, photography, prints, images, society, camera, poem, john levett, housework, home, house, domestic, pain, heart, relationship, poem, matt simpson, stretcher bearer, fruit, ypres, somme, blackberries, death, bodies, war, poem, gerard smyth, on the way, journey, travel, railway, train, landscape, carriage, station, poem, john cassidy, farm in pennsylvania, rural,valley, cultivation, growth, farming, graveyard, graves, poem, john cassidy, oklahoma city, place, usa, the end of the trail, cowboy, statue, horses, history, extract from a novel, business section, the business section, joe biggar, jude the obscure, london. belfast, farset, shankill road, falls road, class, middle-class, the good districts and the bad districts, clifden, milbank, society, aspiration, students, college, tarzan, jewish, review, michael allen, muldoon’s magic mushrooms, quoof, paul muldoon, review, andrew elliott, listening to the music-maker, selecter paul durcacn, ed. edna longley, jumping the train tracks with angela, paul durcan, review, david montrose, the book of teardrops and remembering, the memory of war and children in exile, james fenton, review, brian andrews, insufficient magic, short wave, george szirtes, review, david montrose, promissory note, nights in the iron hotel, michael hofmann, review, robert johnstone, guildering unselfconsciously, field day pamphlets nos. 1 to 3., a new look at the language by tom paulin, an open letter by seamus heaney, civilians and barbarians by seamus deane,
Editors: Michael Foley/Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Foley, Montague, Parker, Squires, Stephens, McLaughlin, Parker, Vallely, Ormsby, Ewart, Weir, Matthew, Simmons, Goodall.
poem, michael foley, a prophet among his people, religion, purpose, prophecy, poem, michael foley, tina, home, relationship, travel, performer, poem, john montague, the fault, dr patrick mccartan, winston churchill, monument for a northern republican, tyrone, war, trauma, country, ireland, conflict, father, ii, the fault, injury, heritage, family, violence, iii, the sound of a wound, injury, pain, place, history, iv, the cage, brooklyn, car accident, memory, loss, fiction, extract from a novel, oh, oh, stewart parker, children, lust, desire, poor things, poem, geoffrey squires, a poem for protestants, border, king, irony, allegory, poem, michael stephens, railway to the river, journey, travel, landscape, loss, nature, train, poem, michael stephens, the dream king, relationship, change, intimacy, love, loss, dreaming, sleep, bed, poem, tom mclaughlin, a poetry circular, poet, poetry, life, ambition, age, career, youth, adolescence, aspiration, adult, adulthood, growing up, review, theatre, stewart parker, it’s a bad scene, mrs worthington, ross alexander, little mother, wherehouse la mama, the living theatre, john vallely, four paintings, the sligo musicians, young girl playing a flageolet, banish misfortune, the four musicians. essay, michael foley, getting off, sex, men, women, pride, dance, party, woman, intelligence, gender, poem, frank ormsby, hairy horseworm, horse-worm, insect, animal, life, size, nature, poem, gavin ewart, ‘woodland walk’, richmond park, sunday, 15th february, 1970, snow, weather, walk, russia, chekhov, cold, freezing, frozen, ice, poem, gavin ewart, the short essay on style, stephen spender, valley of the dolls, writing, writer, conversation, poem, gavin ewart, food, eating, animal, nature, flesh, death, essay, frank ormsby, the plays of brian friel, philadelphia, here I come, the loves of cass mcguire, lovers, poem, translation, anthony weir, irish, king suibine’s oratory, house, home, tree, forest, woods, nature, poem, translation, anthony weir, irish, king suibine’s solitude, nature, moira, lonely, alone, derry, prayer, praying, poem, translation, anthony weir, irish, the ex-poet, cuirithir, poetry, love, loss, liadan, prayer, religion, poem, translation, anthony weir, irish, winter, cold, weather, ice, seasons, season, poem, translation, anthony weir, swedish, lars hulden, 1, author, writer, writing, poet, poem, translation, anthony weir, swedish, lars hulden, 2, respect, paradise, greeting, poem, translation, anthony weir, swedish, lars hulden, 3, death, jesus, christianity, poem, translation, anthony weir, icelandic, anonymous, genitals, sex, penis, illness, age, old, body, poem, tom matthews, happy arabia, knowledge, poet, poetry, review, james simmons, thomas kilroy, the death and resurrection of mr roche, review, james simmons, james j. mcauley, draft balance sheet,
Note: No Mar/April issue. Editors: Michael Foley/Frank Ormsby. Contributors: Foley, Simmons, Morrow, Muldoon, Hogan, Daly, Newman, Mole, Montgomery, Mathews.
essay, michael foley, the ulster goldmine, fake concern, travel, northern ireland, troubles, sectarianism, the enlightenment machine, art, literature, poem, james simmons, marital sonnets, lust, sex, marriage, youth, desire, poet, work, money, job, unhappiness, companionship, relationship, romance, aspiration, domestic, home, wife, husband, family, conflict, relationships, letter, patric stevenson, w. r. rodgers, joe biggar, fiction, john morrow, the confessions of proinsias o’toole, under the starry plough, drugs, crime, prod, protestant, politics, rebellion, poem, paul muldoon, the pink tandem, cycling, bicycle, travel, war, poem, mibol zaritchy, four clerihews, clerihew, politics, politicians, west, john taylor, james chichester-clark, william craig, poem, james simmons, the summing up, relationship, love, body, bodies, sex, poem, arthur magennis, insights, grab you by the balls, poem, arthur magennis, faith, religion, virgin, virginity, prayer, st anthony, poem, frank ormsby, second childhood, sex, sperm, ovum, conception, poem, john mcmahon, four in brief, erection, arousal, reading, barrett, fart, limp, body, bodies, embarrass, embarrassment, public, poem, d. c. carr, triangle, love, affair, marriage, death, poem, lying in, abortion, bed, pregnancy, accident, poem, on the critics of a much abused poet, criticism, critic, defence, poetry, poem, michael foley, dichotomy, fame, toupee, wig, poem, it is grim, life, spirit, love, sad, poem, roland david emma, the inhabitants of the island, joyce, ireland, irish, rain, poem, advice to northern writers, northern ireland, ulster, derry, belfast, omagh, castlederg, strabane, writing, poem, e. v. scrotum, the gift of tongues, sex, cunt, speaking, speech, poem, lionheart, heart, bravery, irony, poem, adjusted, body, poem, parsons, prayer, religion, poem, singular, alone, solitude, eating, restaurant, poem, teasmade, tea, morning, poem, tom matthews, pop festival, medicine, health, stoke-on-trent, injury, illness, sickness, fiction, desmond hogan, cross point, church, prayer, memory, past, childhood, death, sickness, illness, home, grave, acquaintance, meeting, children, poem, john daly, visitor, death, afterlife, life, poem, john daly, death of a friend, memory, loss, body, weather, sadness, poem, john daly, lovesong for italy, field, earth, home, house, stone, history, fiction, joan newman, from delph eggs, farm, childhood, school, play, body, bodies, women, breast, sensation, religion, prayer, praying, baptist, child, poem, john mole, three american moods, the rhinos, for bob joyce, sex, make love not war, mitchell, molvin laird, animal, animals, pride, hunger, survival, nature, poem, john mole, beer cans, manhood, masculinity, drink, alcohol, summer, food, can, buicks, poem, john mole, at gatsby’s, for peter and carole taylor, night, party, social, friends, communication, death, swimming pool, wealth, silence, quiet, essay, derek montgomery, thoughts, the thoughts of derek montgomery, one man among millions, one time in eternity, desire, love, value, paradise, society, pleasure, past, future, religion and literature, revelation, inspiration, insight, christian bible, self knowledge, psychology, consciousness, love, mental health, life, the bomb, fear, war, death, danger, heart of darkness, conrad, captain mcwhirr, survival, democracy in england now, politics, society, freedom, anarchy, individual, individuality, responsibility, experiment, literature, science, Wordsworth, lyrical ballads, new directions, masturbation, communication, language, joyce cary, the horse’s mouth, mother, pray, prayer, laugh, laughter, the teacher, school, education, masturbate, daffodil, lilly, lily, breast, breasts, body, women, gender, childhood, children, lust, democracy, government, politics, anarchy, responsibility, w. b. yeats, shakespeare, measure for measure, the tempest, truth, caliban, pompey, eliot, writing, writer, literature, utopia, hulme, philosophy, happiness, literature, poetry, poet, use, collingwood, lawrence, religion, dogma, heaven, existentialism, remedy, revolution, read george orwell’s animal farm, english revolution, restoration, 1688, france, america, russia, china, burke, reflections on the french revolution, tom paine, reform, politics, society, communism, simone weill, sword, lives, perish, crucified, violence, human nature, church, free, freedom, choice, poem, song, tom matthews, tom’s song, home, house, present, today, lavatory, flat, urine, pee, building, urban, review, alan scott, julia o’faolain, godded and codded, review, night-lights by john mcgahern,
Editors: Ruth Hooley, Robert Johnstone. Contributors: Gallagher T., Meyer, Lynch, Gallagher P, Lawson, Robertson, Uttley, Lykiard, Rice, Byron, Millar, Dunmore, McMillan, Keery, Lysaght, Greene, Tamplin, Foley, Scammell, Dawe, Drisceoil, Hughes, Craig, Hermana, Turner, Clyde, Topping. Cover by Ross Wilson.
poem, tess gallagher, legend with sea breeze, bells, death, sound, blue mountain road, winter, loss, mourning, horse, poem, tess gallagher, crazy menu, food, eating, loss, meal, love, poem, tess gallagher, thieves at the grave, confucian, flowers, gift, poem, bruce meyer, mangroves, wood, nature, life, living, ship, ocean, sea, dream, dreaming, fire, poem, bruce meyer, clothing, clothes, bodies, absence, memory, home, poem, thomas lynch, custody, divorce, separation, family, children, parenthood, grief, law, poem, the lives of women, feminism, inequality, female, babies, oppression, society, sexism, poem, howard wright, the interview, work, job, family, stress, poem, sam burnside, let the record show, records, identity, behaviour, rights, poem, sam burnside, the spade, digging, dig, lever, throw, poem, patrick gallagher, july drought, rossmore, animals, night, moon, dowra, farms, farm, guinness, rural, farmers, poem, patrick gallagher, in memory of philip larkin, d. 3 december 1985, poet, death, verse, writer, poem, sarah lawson, canto mcmlxxxviii (kalendae junii), ezra pound, pen, 1988, poetry, poetry, writing, satire, nonsense, poem, sarah lawson, camping above lake komorze, western poland, pines, trees, sunset, red, lake, colour, light, nature, july, poem, sarah lawson, measuring the net, tennis, summer, adolescence, teens, sport, sports, nostalgia, memory, poem, carole robertson, mother, mississippi, parent, relationship, telegram, mrs beeton, waterloo, essay, the hu business section, beckett: a reading by jude the obscure, samuel beckett, more pricks than kicks, murphy, dublin, surrealism, che sciagura, watt, mercier and camier, first love, krapp’s last tape, molloy, the unnameable, how it is, company, poem, bridget uttley, courty correspondent, royalty, royal, wedding, cathedral, prince, poem, bridget uttley, greenwich time, friendship, youth, party, dole, money, work, benefits, flat, home, poem, bridget uttley, cultivation, harebells, pansies, garden, plants, poetry, poem, alexis lykiard, listening to the blues again, music, father, subversion, billie holiday, bessie smith, louis armstrong, parent, conflict, poem adrian rice, the mason’s tongue, jah-bul-on, body, masonry, jahbulon, ritual, god, masonic, burial, death, poem, adrian rice, margaret mitchell, carrig, witch, witchcraft, magic, madness, drumgurland, poem, adrian rice, bread of sorrows, cassie, work, housework, barmbrack, poem, catherine byron, family circle, galway, 1984, potatoes, food, eating, mother, son, wheaten bread, bog, farm, rural, poem, keith millar, wind found, storm, birds, flight, stability, ravens, flying, poem, helen dunmore, incubi, children, days, relationship, safe, prose, douglas carson, sam hanna bell 1909-1990, memorial, death, writer, broadcaster, castle espie, county down, bbc, radio, erin’s orange lily, the islandmen, a kist o’ whistles, the hollow ball, the return room, the orangemen, within our province, a man flourishing, ulster tatler, across the narrow sea, december bride, poem, hugh mcmillan, more than geography, home, return, oban, kerrera, sea, travel, poem, james keery, easterly, waves, sea, wind, lapwings, shore, poem, sean lysaght, snipe, bird, november, bird watching, flying, flight, poem, sean lysaght, cormorant, birds, bird, water, eels, wings, poem, sean lysaght, meadow pipit, reafog, birds, bird, brood, wiesenpieper, wings, airplane, flight, poem j. f. greene, a final cut, death, ending, funeral, november, grave, absence, photographs, loss, poem, ronald tamplin, levelling a platform for the goathouse, icepick, trotsky, pickaxe, tool, goats, building, construction, poem, ronald tamplin, hot pastoral, gladstone, goats, trees, chopping, on heat, poem, ronald tamplin, interior with fire, goats and acrobat, goatshed, rembrant, dark, animals, eyes, fire, trust, poem, dead goat, death, animals, sheep, heaven, abraham, poem, study with goat, the unknown christ of hinduism, books, reading, goats, prose, david burleigh, the cry for a tender style, george buchanan 1904-89, writing, writer, author, literature, rose forbes, emotion, poetry, carcanet, ten irish poets, revolutionary revolution, letter, barbara fisher, sympathy is essential to the reader and the writer, joyce cary, art and reality, patricia craig, joyce cary remembered, review, michael foley, dublin syndrome and other irish disorders, no laughing matter: the life and times of flann o’brien, anthony cronin, review, michael foley, the simpsonland theme park, louis simpson, selected prose, review, william scammell, master muldoon, hull horations?, good afternoons, kit wright, biting the wax, peter mcdonald, review, gerald dawe, the world’s evening, denis devlin, the collected poems, denis devlin, review, proinsias o drisceoil, charting a new course?, gabriel rosenstock: portrait of the artist as an abominable snowman, translation, translated from the irish jason sommers and michael hartnett, nuala ni dhomhnaill, selected poems, translated by michael hartnett, translation, review, eamonn hughes, letting us eat cake, terence brown, ireland’s literature, review, patricia craig, travelling hopefully, robin bryans, ulster: a journey through the six counties, review, louise hermana, the forbidden well, wildish things: an anthology of new irish women’s writing, ed., ailbhe smyth, review, bill turner, sore thumb, rapped knuckles, john whitworth, tennis and sex and death, review, tom clyde, circles and cycles, make sense who may: essays on samuel beckett’s later works, edited by robin j. davis and lance st j. butler, review, angela topping, a catch of slippery salmon, litany for the pig, eva bourke, when you need them, clairr o’connor, in fields i hear them, jo slade, striking water, paul genga,