Published by Fantasy Press 52pp
edited by Adrian Mitchell, Richard Selig
no preface

Contains the first dialect poems to appear in OP, which were by Daibhidh Mitchell and offer cribs to Celtic words such as lemanrie (wantonry).

Contents

Anthony Bailey: Man in Green and Black; Pastoral;

John Creagh: Daphne; Sperlonga: Fishermen and Octopus Catchers; Hector's Passing;

Bernard Donoughue: A Jew and his Dilemma;

Christopher Driver: Paul to the Romans;

Alistair Elliot: Liturgy for a Bedlamite; This Morning's Song; The Dancer's Song;

Peter Ferguson: The Realisation;

Geoffrey Foster: Eastern Landscape;

William Hayward: To the Sea; The Hills;

Dennis Keene: Atlas with Hour-glass;

John King-Farlow: Forgotten Flirtation;

Peter Levi, S.J.: Be Careful; Mrs Hanratty Wept;

George MacBeth: Death in the Afternoon; The Echoing Cave;

Adrian Mitchell: A Bird in the Head; The Death of Crusoe;

Daibhidh Mitchell: Prayer; The Proposal; Apologie;

Gabriel Pearson: The Moth;

Richard Selig: Boyhood of Theseus; The Phoenix; A Meditation in Lent;

Naughton Smith: The Women of Portland; Elegy in the West;

Quentin Stevenson: No Voice Divine; The Need for Faith;

Anthony Thwaite: The Gift; Explanation for Some; Aubrey's Brief Lives; The Silent Woman;