Introduction

Michael B. Allen

1-20

Growing up

review of death of a naturalist

Christopher Ricks

21-24

"Inner emigré" or "artful voyeur"? Seamus Heaney's north

Edna Longley

30-63

Seamus Heaney

the timorous and the bold

Seamus Deane

64-77

Representation in modern Irish poetry

Eamonn Hughes

78-94

The mouth, the meal and the book

Review of field work

Christopher Ricks

95-101

Review of field work

Terry Eagleton

102-106

Writing a bare wire

station island

Neil Corcoran

107-128

The government of the tongue

Seamus Heaney

129-146

The sign of the cross

review of the government of the tongue

Thomas Docherty

147-154

"Pap for the dispossessed"

Seamus Heaney and the poetics of identity

David Lloyd

155-184

"Bog queens"

the representation of women in the poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney

Patricia Coughlan

185-205

Ana-; or postmodernism, landscape, Seamus Heaney

Thomas Docherty

206-222

The distance between

Seamus Heaney

Stan Smith

223-251

Paradigms of possibility

Seamus Heaney

Richard Kirkland

252-266