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John F Deane 5 editorial Fiona Sampson 7 winter bees: 7 swarm 8 bee-song 8 bee sama- 9 in the karst 9 winter bees Gerard Smyth 11 a caravaggio day 12 peredelkino 13 vestiges Maurice Harmon 14 review: thomas kinsella 19 up to the mark Harry Clifton 20 the change 22 the double chairs, mount melleray Michael Coady 23 mount melleray november Mary O’Donnell 26 view towards a bridge Peter Sirr 27 review: jaan kaplinski Matthew Sweeney 31 domestic 32 lunch in alfama Ger Reidy 33 supporters Iggy McGovern 34 review: rita ann higgins, joseph woods and VOICES AT THE WORLD’S EDGE Susan Connolly 41 matty mcgoona’s cottage, donaghmore, navan 42 cycling to renvyle 43 winter solstice at dowth, 3pm Jean Atkin 44 the children of lir Tony O’Dwyer 45 good friday Janet Shepperson 46 bringing your soul to the palm house PIR introduction 48 introducing daniel tobin Daniel Tobin 49 a stone in aberdaron 51 vespers meditation at wellfleet bay 53 seedlings flaring in fallow beds 55 a green road in clare 56 the midges of letterfrack Pádraig J Daly 57 five alone 59 afternoon 59 the young Frank Ormsby 60 the second joyful mystery 60 crows 61 too late 61 the birds Jean O’Brien 62 hare Philip McDonagh 63 paradeisos 64 in the museum at hallstatt 65 essay: poetic truth and public justice Mark Roper 86 longtailed tits 87 never to run out David Butler 88 cartographers Mary Madec 89 almanac James Harpur 90 review: john mcauliffe, justin quinn and john montague Gerry Murphy 93 the corner house Billy Ramsell 94 jazz weekend Moya Cannon 96 keats lives on the amtrak 98 clean technology Martha Collins 99 that we fly Ngo Tu Lap 100 by the loiret river Bruce Weigl 102 grace being saved 102 patrick of the interstate, 1967 103 anecdote of the impresario of my brain 103 painted box buried in the sad yard Nguyen Phan Que Mai 104 stars in the shape of carrying poles 105 the poem i can’t yet name Binh Nguyen 106 star apple orchard Kevin Bowen 108 lessons in art history 109 the general: hanoi 1987 110 outside the window Nguyen Quang Thieu 111 july reminiscence 112 february reminiscence Fred Marchant 113 nocturne 114 holy name Vo Que 115 the peach PIR interview 116 interview: with eva bourke Eva Bourke 128 a view of berlin 130 stendhal syndrome 131 swifts Mary O’Malley 132 before winter comes Sarah Corbett 134 cousin edred John Burnside 135 on reading milton’s seventh sonnet, new year’s day, 2012 136 summer dawn 137 yawp Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 138 review: john burnside

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