Contents

1. Poems by John Montague
2.      Essays by various authors
3.  
4. Front Cover
5. Note to Reader
6. Editor Info Page
7. Title Page
8. Preface
9.  
10. The Water Carrier
11. Justin Quinn
12. Like Dolmens round my Childhood, the Old People
13. Alan Gillis
14. A Welcoming Party
15. Gerald Dawe
16. In Dedication
17. Dermot Healy
18. The Trout
19. Paul Muldoon
20. All Legendary Obstacles
21. Gerard Smyth
22. The Country Fiddler
23. Ciaran Carson
24. A Bright Day
25. Seamus Heaney
26. Forge
27. Vona Groarke
28. Division
29. David Wheatley
30. The Wild Dog Rose
31. John McAuliffe
32. Life Class
33. Medbh McGuckian
34. ‘Hearing the cock crow in the dark …’
35. Thomas Kinsella
36. A Lost Tradition
37. Eavan Boland
38. Seskilgreen
39. Peter Fallon
40. Courtyard in Winter
41. Seán Lysaght
42. Windharp
43. Michael Longley
44. A Graveyard in Queens
45. Ciaran Berry on
46. Ó Riada’s Farewell
47. Michael Coady
48. Herbert Street Revisted
49. Peter Sirr
50. Edge
51. Conor O’Callaghan
52. At Last
53. Sara Berkeley
54. Moving In
55. Bernard O’Donoghue
56. Hearth Song
57. Rosita Boland
58. Border Sick Call
59. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
60. Paths
61. Aidan Rooney
62. Crossroads
63. Dennis O’Driscoll
64. Guardians
65. Tom French
66. White Water
67. Eamon Grennan
68. Demolition Ireland
69. Derek Mahon
70. Last Court
71. Frank McGuinness
72.  
73. Notes
74. About John Montague
75. Poetry Collections by John Montague
76. Copyright
77. Back Cover