Contents Poetry Ireland Review 116 Vona Groarke 5 editorial Richard Murphy 7 essay: rejoice Tessa Hadley 12 essay: bodies blessed Sheenagh Pugh 14 review: CROSSWAYS WB Yeats 18 friends August Kleinzahler 19 april, 1920 WB Yeats 20 the nineteenth century and after Heather McHugh 21 the twentieth century and after Colm Tóibín 22 essay: poem and shadow Vijay Seshadri 26 essay: microtones Colette Bryce 29 review: THE ROSE WB Yeats 33 hound voice Margaret Atwood 34 because we love bare hills and stunted trees WB Yeats 35 the musicians Adam Thorpe 36 by silbury Roy Foster 37 in conversation with vona groarke Maurice Riordan 43 review: THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS Frank McGuinness 46 essay: a kick in the head Joseph O’Neill 48 essay: population: 1 Medbh McGuckian 50 review: IN THE SEVEN WOODS WB Yeats 54 easter 1916 Anne Michaels 56 at close of day WB Yeats 57 the lover’s song John Glenday 58 bird sighs for the air Spare Ribh 59 quiz: how yeats are you? Olivia O’Leary 61 essay: yeats: part of the liturgy Bill Whelan 64 essay: music for words perhaps Eamon Grennan 67 review: THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS WB Yeats 71 he thinks of those who have spoken evil of his beloved Bill Manhire 72 munch WB Yeats 73 a first confession Denise Riley 74 i admit the briar Patrick McGuinness 75 essay: on the double Neil Jordan 78 essay: mad abstract dark John McAuliffe 80 review: RESPONSIBILITIES: POEMS AND A PLAY WB Yeats 84 from vacillation Harry Clifton 85 chez jeanette WB Yeats 87 the wild swans at coole Campbell McGrath 88 yeats’s swans WB Yeats 90 no second troy Nell Regan 91 scheme WB Yeats 92 to the rose upon the rood of time Thomas Kinsella 93 essay: two personal read ings from THE ROSE WB Yeats 94 to ireland in the coming times Peter Fallon 98 review: THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE WB Yeats 102 a meditation in time of war Rosanna Warren 103 lake storm WB Yeats 104 beautiful lofty things Philip Schultz 105 the books of dead friends WB Yeats 106 an irish airman foresees his death Martina Evans 107 the irish airman parachutes to earth Margaret Mills Harper 108 quiz: william butler yeats Bernard O’Donoghue 111 review: MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER Mary Costello 115 essay: signs and symmetries Gerard Smyth 118 essay: necessary curse WB Yeats 120 crazy jane talks with the bishop Sharon Olds 121 crazy sharon talks to the bishop WB Yeats 122 the folly of being comforted Rita Ann Higgins 123 the bottom lash John Banville 124 review: THE TOWER Fintan O’Toole 129 essay: the tightened bow Diarmaid Ferriter 131 essay: the history of his time Gerald Dawe 134 review: THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS WB Yeats 138 lines written in dejection Kerry Hardie 139 lines written in dejection WB Yeats 140 from a woman young and old Molly Peacock 141 i learnt that much Catriona Crowe 142 essay: sailing to drumcliffe Kevin Barry 147 essay: flowers in his hair Joseph O’Connor 149 essay: yeats is my mother John Montague 152 review: WORDS FOR MUSIC PERHAPS AND OTHER POEMS WB Yeats 154 high talk Sinéad Morrissey 155 at the moscow state circus WB Yeats 156 byzantium James Harpur 158 middle dormitory Rowan Williams 159 essay: pilgrimage Donal Ryan 161 essay: nirvana Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 163 review: A FULL MOON IN MARCH WB Yeats 167 long-legged fly Jeffrey Wainwright 168 the keepers WB Yeats 169 a deep-sworn vow Alice Lyons 170 deep-sworn Blake Morrison 171 essay: infatuation Hugo Hamilton 173 essay: bescheidenheit Adrian Frazier 176 crossword: maud gonne Paul Muldoon 178 review: LAST POEMS AND TWO PLAYS Geraldine Higgins 183 essay: news that stays new Notes on Contributors 193.