£15.00
Winter 2016
Contributors: Norman Ackroyd, John Brannigan, Robert Crawford, Douglas Dunn, James Macdonald Lockhart, Michael Longley, Sarah Longley, Pàdraig MacAoidh, Andrew McNeillie, Angus Martin, Richard Murphy, Nicholas Pierpan, Christopher Reid, Jos Smith, Peter Stothard
‘A Visit’
‘Lunch with Seamus’
‘The Age of Irrelevance’
‘Meditation in Paternoster Square’
‘Night and Day’
‘Arkwork’, a series of eleven sonnets by Andrew McNeillie, finds in the loss of the Stranraer-Larne ferry in January 1953, in which 133 passengers and crew drowned, a focus for a reflection on the literary history of shipwreck, death, and survival. The poems are superbly illustrated in dramatic drawings by the artist Julian Bell…
A thirteen-part short work of prose and poems about island life, and languages, present and past.
