Makings of a music : reflections on Wordsworth and Yeats
Fire i' the flint : reflections on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
From Monaghan to the Grand Canal : the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh
In the country of convention : English pastoral verse
God in the tree : early Irish nature poetry
Canticles to the Earth : Theodore Roethke
Tradition and an individual talent : Hugh MacDiarmid
Memorable voice : Stevie Smith
Labourer and the lord : Francis Ledwidge and Lord Dunsany
Mixed marriage : Paul Muldoon
Digging deeper : Brian Friel's Volunteers
Faith, hope and poetry : Osip Mandelstam
Full face : Robert Lowell.
