Editorial – Patricia McCarthy Introduction to John Montague’s 75 th Birthday supplement – Patricia McCarthy John Montague : poems Last Court On the Last Heath Slievemore Hermit The Absent Limb Conversations with David Jones Seamus Heaney : So succession passes…. Seamus Heaney : On ‘Mount Eagle’ Thomas McCarthy : On the edge is best – a memoir Hugh MacDiarmid : John Montague’s Ulster Dennis O’Driscoll : Interview 1988 Two poems for John Montague: Michael Longley : The Pear Nicolas Jacobs : Jugs ‘The Forge’ by Peter Brennan Martin Dodsworth : John Montague: Making Irish Poetry Maurice Harmon : John Montague: ‘Restless Spirit’ John Greening : Place Wisdom Thomas Dillon Redshaw : Location as Vocation: John Montague’s ‘The Northern Gate’ Gerald Dawe : Fair Dues: A Note Peter Denman : Legendary Obstacles, Ancient Forms, Modern Poetics David Wheatley : An Incendiary Inspiration Matthew Geden : Completing the Job – an interview Elizabeth Wassell : A brief interview with John Montague Photograph of John Montague Patricia McCarthy : Birthday poem for John Montague: Downloading Your Portrait Anthology of Poems: page…to page…. James Aitchison -Terrains Fergus Allen -Penguin Island / The Dartry Dye Works Gary Allen -Wash Day, Behind the Flats / The Island / In a Bombed Hotel in Portstewart / Kingdoms Lost Joseph Allen-Transitive /Languages Rosita Boland -Foundations / Chimney Norman Buller -Her Youth Nick Burbridge -Connection Paddy Bushe -Crossing Waibaidu Bridge / In the Summer Palace / Lapse at Innisfallen Maggie Butt -Stabiliser Siobhan Campbell -Pepper / Parsing / Weeding Mangels Moya Cannon -First Poetry / Crater Anne Cluysenaar -1936-(extract from a long sequence: Water to Breathe ) Gerald Dawe -The Dark Harbour / Second Look John Deane -You / One for Sorrow / Master of the Feast / Carnival of the Animals / Report from a Far Place Theo Dorgan -Typical bloody monkey gland weather / A prospect to brighten a shook heart / Not everyone is in it for the money Martina Evans -Jars of Sweets / On living in an area of manifest greyness and misery / The day my cat spoke to me Padraig Fallon-Diarmuid and Grainne: 3 lyrics / Cri du Coeur, Peter Fallon -From The Georgics of Virgil Gerard Fanning -The Cancer Bureau / Quince Sally Festing -Earth Dream Janice Fixter-Counting Shells Celia de Freine-Capture Matthew Geden -The Stranger / The Blue Necklace Patrick Gilmore -Intermission / Oratory Squirrels Grey Gowrie -Transplant Kerrie Hardie -After the Prize Maurice Harman -Extracts from Prelude to the Doll with Two Backs James Harpur -St Brendan / Roscommon Rain / Sinking Spirits, Dunmanus Bay, West Cork / O’Donovan, O’Donovan, O’Reilly and Me Jennifer Harrington -Word x two / Father Seamus Heaney -Out of Shot / What in the World? N.M. Jagger -(from Zlotov, a sequence) Fred Johnston -Cobbled /Hag poem / Looking for the Well Brendan Kennelly -A Real Presence / Like the swallow / Whatever Lance Lee -Muskrat John Liddy -Harri / The Pilgrim’s Road in memory / The Dead Coast Of Galicia Michael Longley -Owl Cases / For my Cat / White Water Sally Lucas -Winter Walking Isobel Lusted -Thank You Tom MacIntyre-Travellers / The Treasure Derek Mahon -Red Cloud Cathal McCabe -Light & Love Thomas McCarthy-A young Nathaniel Murphy at the Castel S. Angelo, 1770 / Nathaniel Murphy thinks of the meaning of Constant Happiness, 1807 Iggy McGovern -The Bony / The Windfarm Nigel McLoughlin -Cattle Shed / She Was Faithless Sinead Morrissey -Lullaby Paul Muldoon -Starlings, Broad Street, Trenton, 2003 Paul Murray -Voice and Shadow / At the Edge / The Second Youngest / Night Wind Eilean Ni Chuilleanain -Interim report to Paul: November Eabhan Ni Shuileabhain -Callan Robert Nye -The Well Spring Jean O’Brien -Yes, I can bake a cake / The Arc of a Swing in Autumn Steven O’Brien -I Sing the Raparee / Joseph Locke Karen O’Connor -Limerick Races John O’Donnell -The Last Wolf in Ireland Mary O’Donnell -The Graveyard Tango Bernard O’Donoghue -The Houses of the Customs-Men at Dursey ( after Montale ) / Man of My Time ( after Quasimodo ) Dennis O’Driscoll -Natural Causes Desmond O’Grady-Versions of Kurdish poems of Love and Liberty: Nails /If I should say / I Go / Dark Night Nessa O’Mahony -The House of Molaga / Ceres returns for Cemetery Sunday / Love Tokens Caitriona O’Reilly -Falco Peregrinus / The Mews / Opus Contra Naturam / The Lure / The Cure Ian Parks -Songs of Freedom / Kite Stephen Parr -Shed / Nine Years On Jo Phillips -The Colour of Lies / Walking the Pier Peter Robinson -Real Times Sue Roe -Unconsecrated Carol Rumens -The Weather of Scarves / Baba, Mama,Babushka / The Grandmother’s Tale Eileen Sheehan -Last Rites / Ring James Simmons -White:1999 / Half Fleshless Half Feathered / Folder of Poems Knute Skinner -I Go Cold with the Memory of It Gerard Smyth -Smokehouse / Brother of Water and Sky / Hopkins Will Stone-The Gift: for Michael Hamburger on his 80 th Birthday Frances Thompson -Leaving is Easy Nigel Thompson -Mirror Mirror David Wheatley -Fintan and the Hawk of Achill / The Hearing Aid F.J.Williams -Reading lesson in the Lifers’ Wing Joseph Woods -Plastic Butterflies / A Carvery Lunch in Louth Macdara Woods -Movements taken from The Cello Suites: Prelude / Sarabande / Bouree / Gigue Howard Wright -Gone Lynne Wycherley -Wedding Rings Essays and Reviews : page…. to page….. Brian Fallon: Patrick MacDonogh: Poems. Atar Hadari : A Light to Transform the World: The Painter’s Craft of Derek Mahon Carol Rumens : Derek Mahon and Formal Necessity Ben Howard : A Belfast Contemplative: Michael Longley’s The Weather in Japan W.S. Milne : Master of the Epigram: Brendan Kennelly Patricia McCarthy : Manhandling the Muse in the poems of John F.Deane N.S. Thompson : Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel Bernard O’Donoghue : Padraig Fallon, Pearse Hutchinson, Michael Hartnett and Ciaran Carson Peter Robinson : Loving his Food: Harry Clifton Nessa O’Mahony : Unsettled Things: Padraig J. Daly, Pat Boran, Kerry Hardie, Rosita Boland and Medbh McGuckian Peter Robinson : So Far So Good: Sinead Morrissey Kathryn Gray (chosen young reviewer): John Ennis, Gregory O’Donoghue, Dolores Stewart Chosen Broadsheet 1 poet: Patrick Fogarty : Four poems Notes for Broadsheet Poets : Having a Mentor by Patricia McCarthy Letters exchanged between W.B.Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley Notes on Rhythm by John Montague Biographies Future issues .