Published by Magdalen College 40pp
edited by Mark Wormald(2)
no preface

Theme: Younger Scottish Poets. In this issue, the Richard Ellmann Prize is announced. Seamus Heaney endowed it for the first five years: the editors, in consultation with the Professor of Poetry, choose a judge, who then awards the prize to the best poem in one volume's issues. The winning poem is then reprinted in the first issue of the next volume. A donation by James Fenton has ensured that the Prize will shortly begin again.

Contents

Robert Crawford: Tradition and the Individual Talent (for W. N. Herbert); Cambuslang;

Elizabeth Burns: The Pillars of Hercules;

Raymond Ross: Souvenir;

John Glenday: Stories of the Wind; Three Men;

Christopher Whyte: An Dioghaltair | The Avenger [printed in parallel Gaelic and English];

Seamus Heaney: Robert Frost's "Sweetest Dream": from the lecture given as Professor of Poetry on 26 October 1989; Resin; The Point;

Adam Thorpe: Persia;

Richard Major: Nocturne;

Sheila Sullivan: So Minor a Poet;

David H. W. Grubb: When Did You Last See Your Father?;

Michael O'Sullivan: Cape Clear Island;

Charles Montgomery: Edith;

Fred Johnston: Ulysses, My Father;

Robert Carver: Portable Worlds: a review of "A Porter Selected" and "Possible Worlds", by Peter Porter;

Malcolm Hebron: The Properties of Stone: a review of "Poems 1954-1987" and "The First Earthquake", by Peter Redgrove;

Jane Feaver: Cat's Cradle; Highpoint, Hawdraw Force;

Deborah Randall: Angels;

Peter Hughes: Coach Poem;

John Greening: For My Father;

Pat Marum: Getting Through;

After Reading The Swan Prince: Roz Cowman;

The Birches: Howard Wright;

Richard Goodson: Messiah's Ironies;