Contents: Page Geoffrey Squires A Short Note on the Long Poem [5] .Malcolm Brown Allingharn’s Ireland [7] .Stan Smith Writing A Will: Yeats’s Ancestral Voices in "The Tower" and "Meditations in Time of Civil Wa?' [14] .Geoffrey Squires "Landscapes" [38] . Neil Corcoran The Blessings of Onan: Austin Clarke’s Mnemosyne Lay in Dust [43] .Robert Welch Language as Pilgrimage: Lough Derg Poems of Patrick Kavanagh and Denis DevIin [54] .James Mays Passivity and Openness in Two Long Poems by Brian Coffey [67] .Tom Paulin "The Argument at Great Tew" [83] .Robert F. Garratt Fragilities and Structures: Poetic Strategy in Thomas Kinselia’s "Night walker" and 'Thoenix Park" [88] .Julian Moynahan The Battle of A ughrim: A Commentary [103] .Reviews by Maurice Harmon, Cormac 6 Grida, J.C.C. Mays, Alan Harrison, Sein 6 Laing, Christopher Murray, David Lloyd. [114] .Short Notices [134] .Books Received [136]