James Simmons, ed., Ten Irish Poets (Cheadle: Carcanet 1974), 92pp., Introduction; Acknowledgements and Notes on Contributors.
CONTENTS: George Buchanan [Conversation with Strangers; A Wave of Joy; War-and-Peace; Philanthropy; The Animals]; John Hewitt [An Irishman in Coventry; Gathering Praties; A Victorian Steps Out; O Country People; Because I Paced my Thought; The Scar; An Ulster Landowners Song; From the Tibetan]; Padraic Fiacc [Dirge; First Movement; The Poet and the Night; The Other Mans Wound; Alive Alive O; Gloss; The British Connection; The Black and the White; Enemies]; Pearse Hutchinson [Connemara; Lovers; Bright after Dark; A Rose and a Book for Sant Jordi; Fleadh Cheoil; A Man; The Nuns at the Medical Lecture]; James Simmons [Ode to Blenheim Square; Join Me in Celebrating; A Good Thing; Husband to Wife; Letter to a Jealous Friend; Experience; Outward Bound; Old Gardener; Me and the World]; Michael Hartnett [The Person Nox Agonistes; The Poet as Black Sheep; Crossing the Iron Bridge; The Lord Taketh Away; The Night before Patricias Funeral ...; The Third Sonnet; A Small Farm; The Person as a Dreamer; All That is Left]; Eileán ní Chuilleanáin [Early Recollections; Death and Engines; Evidence; The Apparition; The Second Voyage; A Poem on Change; Ferryboat; Letter to Pearse Hutchinson; Swineherd]; Michael Foley [Recruiting Song; Heil Hitler; from Instead of a Rose; The Fall of the Bedsitter King; ODriscoll; from A la Recherche du Temps Perdu; Autumn Leaves; I Feel, These Days; Into the Breach; Im Scared ... Sois Sage ...]; Frank Ormsby [Business as Usual; Interim; Winter Offerings; In Great victoria Street; Floods; Dublin Honeymoon; Hair Horseworm; Three Domestic Poems; Onan; McQuade; Castlecoole; An Uncle Remembered; Virgins]; Tom Matthews [Restless; The Singing Lady; Anton the Elephant Boy; Young Girls Diary; Robert Sat; The Cowboy Film; Toms Song; Geriatric; The Poet with Bad Teeth; Foolstop; LEnfant Fatigue; Gustav the Great Explorer
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