Contents

Poems
Austin Clarke [4] Aidan Rooney-Cespedes [5] David Mason [9] Carol Rumens [11] Matthew Fluharty [26] Diaz Mir6n [27] Peter Robinson [28] Paul Farley [29] Simon Carnell [31] Cathal McCabe [35] Kevin Higgins [38] Andrew McNeillie [40] Sam Gardiner [42] John Kinsella [44] John McAuliffe [46] Glyn Maxwell [48] Carlos Drummond de Andrade [70] Joao Cabral de Melo Neto [73] Ii Bo [75] Iggy McGovem [76] Peter Carpenter [78] Irving Feldman [80] Greg Delanty [83] Robert Saxton [84] Ian Duhig [86] Seán O’Brien [88] Stephen Wade [90] Maurice Scully [91] Howard Wright [96]

Reviews
Edna Longley on Seamus Heaney [14] Jonathan Ellis on Gerald Dawe & Peter Robinson [19] Peter Sirr on Mark Ford [99] Selina Guinness on Medbh McGuckian [104] Peggy O'Brien on Jorie Graham & Eavan Boland [110] Briefly Noted [194]

Essays
Hugh Haughton on Derek Mahon [51] Peter Robinson on Allen Cumow [118]

Michael Hartnett Special
Michael Hartnett: Feuilletons [131], Translations [136], An Interview [139] Memoirs by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill [148], Michael Smith [155], Michael Longley [159], Tony Curtis [164] Essays by David Wheatley [175], Gerald Dawe [182], John McAuliffe [186] Poem by Peter Fallon [193]