Table Of Contents:

List of illustrations ix(2)
List of contributors xi(8)
Acknowledgements xix(5)

Frontispiece: `Gateways': a photograph xxiv(1)

Marc Atkins
Editor's introduction: The Five Towers: heartlands and borderlands xxv
Part I Literary devolution: writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England 4(347)

Scotland 4(66)

Frontispiece: Dorothy Stirling, `Night Solo' 4(1)

DAVID KINLOCH

From the `Debatable Lands': a selection of contemporary Scottish poetry Gael Turnbull, Carol Ann Duffy, Hugh McMillan, Gerrie Fellows, John Burnside, Raymond Friel, James McGonigal, W. N. Herbert, Brian McCabe, Robert Crawford, Graham Fulton, Elizabeth Burns, Tom Pow, John Glenday, Gerry Cambridge, Kathleen Jamie, Stuart A. Paterson, Stewart Conn, Ron Butlin, Don Paterson, Daniel O'Rourke, Roddy Lumsden, Richard Price, Peter McCarey, Andrew Greig, Drew Milne, Peter Manson, Angela McSeveney, Alan Riach, Edwin Morgan, Gael Turnbull 5(42)

CHRISTOPHER WHYTE

Bho Leodhas gu Hong Kong/From Lewis to Hong Kong: Scottish Gaelic poets today Meg Bateman, Anne Frater, Rody Gorman, Aonghas Macneaceil 47(16)

ALASTAIR MACKIE

Scottish translations of European poets With a note by Peter France 63(4)

Arthur Rimbaud, `The Sleeper in the Glen' 63(1)

Anna Akhmatova, `July 1914' 64(1)

Osip Mandelstam, `To N.Y. Mandelstam' 65(2)

IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

Three graphic poems: `Inscriptions', `Harbour and Bay', `A Moment in Time' 67(3)

Wales 70(68)

Frontispiece: `Cell Angel': a photograph

Marc Atkins

T. GERALD HUNTER

The genealogy of the cell angel: contemporary Welsh political poetry 71(26)

Gerwyn Wiliams, `Author's Nightmare', `My Wales' 94(1)

Twm Morys, `My First Love was a Plover' 95(1)

Iwan Llwyd, `Aneurin' 96(1)

MENNA ELFYN

`Song of a voiceless person to British Telecom' and other poems from Eucalyptus and Cell Angel. With an introduction by Menna Elfyn and a note on translation by Elin ap Hywel 97(20)

SAM ADAMS

Weaving a Cymric web? A perspective on contemporary Anglo-Welsh poetry 117(21)

Peter Finch, `How to Stop a Duck' 134(1)

Gwyneth Lewis, `Illinois Idylls' from Parables and Faxes 135(3)

Ireland 138(66)

Frontispiece: `God speaketh unto Noe': a wood engraving from The Chester Play of the Deluge

David Jones JOHN MONTAGUE

`Teste David', `Camlas' and `Lord of the Animals' from The Great Bell. Conversations with David Jones. With an introduction on David Jones by John Montague and wood engravings by David Jones 139(12)

THOMAS KINSELLA

`The Quarrel of the Two Pig-Keepers and How the Bulls Were Begotten' from The Tain 151(4)

NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL

`Daphne and Apollo' and `The Mermaid in the Labour Ward', translated from the Gaelic by Medbh McGuckian 155(8)

`My Dark Master', translated from the Gaelic by Paul Muldoon 160(3)

SEAMUS HEANEY

STANISLAW BARANCZAK

Laments 5 and 14, from a new translation of Jan Kochanowski's Laments. With an introduction by George Gomori 163(6)

VINCENT WOODS

At The Black Pig's Dyke: a play With photograph of the original production by the Druid Theatre 169(35)

England 204(147)

Frontispiece: `Prow': a photograph 204(1)

Marc Atkins

ROD MENGHAM

`Warning Letters and Dream Ratios': contemporary English poetry Caroline Bergvall, Brian Catling, Andrew Crozier, Andrew Duncan, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, John James, Grace Lake, Barry MacSweeney, Ian Patterson, Ulli Freer, Denise Riley, Tom Raworth, Peter Riley, Geoff Ward, John Wilkinson 205(44)

JON SILKIN

`Taking Ourselves to Heart', `Printing Radio Stations on Glass at Lee Green' 249(6)

RODNEY PYBUS

`Quartet for the Lion' (in memoriam Leos Janacek), `Outside the Cafe Mozart, Cape Town, 1994' 255(6)

JUDITH KAZANTZIS

`Gawain and the Green Knight's Wife' 261(2)

SHAMOON ZAMIR

Bringing the world to Little England. Cape Editions, Cape Goliard and poetry in the sixties. An Interview with Nathaniel Tarn. With an afterword by Tom Raworth 263(24)

ANTHONY WARD

Tamarack: chapter one of a novel 287(10)

ROSALIND BELBEN

`The Absolute Adventure': a story 297(12)

SIMON PERRIL

A cartography of absence: the work of Iain Sinclair. With a filmography 309(32)

IAIN SINCLAIR

`Careful the Horse's Bite': a chapter from a graphic novel With illustrations by Dave Mckean and Marc Atkins 341(10)
Part II Translation 351(54)

Winners of the 1995 BCLA Translation Competition Open Competition 351(2)

JEAN CASSOU

Thirty-Three Sonnets of the Resistance With an introduction by Louis Aragon Translated from the French by Timothy Ades With two illustrations 353(28)

VALERIO MAGRELLI

`Much is subtracted from life by sleep' and other poems Translated from the Italian by Douglas Reid Skinner and Marco Fazzini First (equal) Prize 381(12)

INGER EDELFELDT

Special Prize for Swedish `Up in the Clearing': a story Translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death First Prize 393(12)
Part III Essay reviews 405(6)

ALISTAIR ELLIOT

Reflections on Plath as translator. Review of Plath's translations of Ronsard (Theme and Version. Plath and Ronsard, edited by Anthony Rudolf). 405(6)

SYLVIA PLATH

`When in the morn my goddess sets each curl' Translation of Ronsard, Les Amours (1552), sonnet XII 409(2)
Endpiece: `Facing forward': a photograph by Marc Atkins 411