The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

Irish Issue

(Volume 81, No 2, Summer 1991)

Editor

Peter Forbes

The Irish Issue

Derek Mahon interviewed by William Scammell; Edna Longley on Mahon's Selected Poems; Poem by Peter Sirr; Helen Dunmore on Eavan Boland; poem by Eavan Boland

Peter Levi on Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things; Poems by Richard McCracken, Matthew Sweeney, Sean Dunn, and Janet Shepperson

Gerald Dawe on Anthony Cronin, Denis Devlin, Paul Durcan, Padraic Fallon, Brendan Kennelly, and Thomas Kinsella; poems by Harry Clifton and Catherine Byron

Terry Eagleton on Ciaran Carson; Peter Sirr on Michael Longley; John Greening on John Mantague; poem by Richard Kell

James Wood on Tom Paulin's Faber Book of Vernacular Verse

Peter Denman on The Flowering Tree and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill; Conor Kelly on Gerlad Dawe's The New Younger Irish Poets, Pat Boran, Dermot Bolger, and Sebastian Barry; Dennis O'Driscoll on Louis MacNeice

Northern Irish Roundup by Patrick Ramsey; poem by Mary O'Donnell; poem by Ciaran Carson

Poems

Martin Reed, David Sutton, fiona Pitt-Kethley, Alistair Eliiot, Alison Brackenbury, Richard Sanger, Gavin Ewart, Nicki Jackowska, and Andrew Gibbons

Reviews

Don Paterson on Alan Brownjohn, E.A. Markham, John Hartley Williams, T.F. Griffin, Edwin Brock, and Iain Critchton Smith; poem by Ruth Fainlight; Ian McMIllan on recent anthologies; poems by William Park, Felicity Napier, Maura Dooley, and Anthony Thwaire

Jamie McKendrick on Hugo Williams, Andrew Greig, and Thomas McCarthy; poem by Ann Whiteside; Philip Gross on Elizabeth Garrett; poem by Elizabeth Garrett; poem by Jenny Jospeh

Elizabeth Bartlett on Connie Bensley, Rosamund Stanhope, Maureen Wilkinson, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, Wes Magee, Dorothy Hewett, and Matt Simpson; poem by Duncan Forbes; David Kennedy on Michael Hulse, Jamie McKendrick, Hugh McmIllan, and Ken Smith; poems by Hugh McMillan and Terry Jones

Bernard O'Donoghue on New Zealand poetry; poems by Selima Hill, Colin Rowbotham, and Vicki Feaver; Yann Lovelock on eric Mottram and Christopher Middleton; poem by Jackie Kay; Sylvia Kantaris on C.H. Sisson, Fleur Adcock, Wendy Cope, Andrew Motion, George Szirtes, and Michele Roberts; poem by Lupenga Mphande

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