Finders keepers: selected prose, 1971-2001

Mossbawn --

From Feeling into words --

Learning from Eliot --

Belfast --

Cessation 1994 --

Something to write home about --

Earning a rhyme --

On poetry and professing --

Englands of the mind --

Yeats as an example --

Place and displacement : recent poetry from Northern Ireland --

The placeless heaven : another look at Kavanagh --

The main of light --

Atlas of civilization --

From Envies and identifications : Dante and the modern poet --

From The government of the tongue --

From Sounding Auden --

Lowell's command --

From The indefatigable hoof-taps : Sylvia Plath --

The place of writing --

1. On W.B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee --

2. On Thomas Kinsella --

Edwin Muir --

From The redress of poetry --

From Extending the alphabet : Christopher Marlowe --

John Clare's prog --

A torchlight procession of one : Hugh MacDiarmid --

From Dylan the durable : on Dylan Thomas --

Joy or night : last things in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Philip Larkin --

From Counting to a hundred : Elizabeth Bishop --

Burns's art speech --

Through-other places, through-other times : the Irish poet and Britain --

Stevie Smith's Collected poems --

Joyce's poetry --

Italo Calvino's Mr. Palomar --

Paul Muldoon's The annals of Chile --

Norman MacCaig, 1910-1996 --

Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1996 --

On Ted Hughes's 'Littleblood' --

Secular and millennial Milosz.