Contents: Introduction: The Poet and His Background [7] Maurice Harmon Biographical Note on Richard Murphy II Seamus Heaney The Poetry of Richard Murphy [18] Richard Murphy Seven Poems [31] J.G. Simms The Battle of Aughrim: History and Poetry [36] Michael Herity The High Island Hermitage [52] Anthony Whilde A Note on the Stormpetrel and Comcrake [70] Jonathan Williams A Glossary to The Battle of Aughrim and The God Who Eats Corn [73] Mary FitzGerald A Richard Murphy Bibliography [104] Reviews by: John Wilson Foster, Seamus Deane, C. O Danachair, W.J. McCormack, Pauline Cumbers, Robert Welch, A.G. Stock, J ohn Dinon, Maurice Harmon, Rhoda Kavanagh. Books Received [141]