Contents: Introduction: The Poet and His Background [7] .Maurice Harmon Biographical Note on Richard Murphy II Seamus Heaney The Poetry of Richard Murphy [18] .Richard Murphy Seven Poems [31] .J.G. Simms The Battle of Aughrim: History and Poetry [36] .Michael Herity The High Island Hermitage [52] . Anthony Whilde A Note on the Stormpetrel and Comcrake [70] .Jonathan Williams A Glossary to The Battle of Aughrim and The God Who Eats Corn [73] .Mary FitzGerald A Richard Murphy Bibliography [104] . Reviews by: John Wilson Foster, Seamus Deane, C. O Danachair, W.J. McCormack, Pauline Cumbers, Robert Welch, A.G. Stock, J ohn Dinon, Maurice Harmon, Rhoda Kavanagh. Books Received [141]