Cencrastus No. 3: Summer 1980

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Scottish and international literature, arts and affairs.

Features

Philosophy and Autonomy by Ronald Turnbull and Craig Beveridge
Les Belles Soeurs, an extract of Michel Tremblay's play translated into Scots by Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay
First International Festival of Celtic Film by Michael W. Russell
Celtic Cinema and the Irish Experience by Bob Quinn
Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini translated by N.S. Thompson
Some Thoughts on Highland History by Hamish Henderson
4 Fictions by James Kelman
Scottish Watercolour Painting by Kenneth Roberts
Politics and the South African Novel in English by Ian Fullerton
Poems by Yuli Daniel and Salvatore Quasimodo translated into Scots by Alastair Mackie
Scott, Scotland and Repression by Harry Shaw
The Day Tokyo Burned by Saotome Katsumoto, translated by John Scott

Reviews

Miners Republic of Fife, review of Ian Macdougall Militant Miners by Laurie Flynn
For What Shall it Profit a Man: Marinell Ash's The Strange Death of Scottish History and Fraser Grigor's Mightier than a Lord reviewed by John Simpson
R. Emerson Dobash & Russell Dobash Volence Against Wives reviewed by Jessica M. Burns
Sebastian Barker's Who is Eddie Linden reviewed by Anthony Ross
Kurt Heinzelman's The Economics of the Imagination reviewed by C.E. Nicholson
Scottish Folk: Edward J. Cowan The People's Past & Thomas Crawford's Society and the Lyric reviewed by David Craig
G.J. Watson's Irish Identity and the Literary Revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce and O'Casey reviewed by Cairns Craig
J.D. McClure, A.J. Aitken & J.T. Low Scots Language: Planning for Modern Usage & J.K. Annand's Thrice to Show Ye reviewed by Raymond J. Ross
John Sturrock Structuralism and Since: from Levi Strauss to Derrida reviewed by Cairns Craig
Ruth I. Aldrich John Galt; Henri Gibault John Galt: romancier écossais; & Christoper A. Whatley ''John Galt 1779 - 1979, reviewed by Martin Bowman
John MacDougall Hay's Gillespie reviewed by Norman M. Macdonald
Fred Urquhart's Palace of Green Days and Allan Massie's The Last Peacock reviewed by Dave McKie
Roddy McMillan's All in Good Faith reviewed by Bill Findlay
Tony Connor's A Foreign Bird in Winter; Alan Forester's Pocketbook Poetry; Morelle Smith's The Star Reaper; George Gunn's Explaining to Joni; Graham Taylor's The Words of the Fisherman; Neil McNeil's The Night Dream's of Nialloran; William Oxley's The Exile; Hayden Murphy's Places of Glass; David Craig's Homing; Edwin Morgan's Star Gate: Science Fiction Poems; and Norman McCaig's The Equal Skies reviewed by Glen Murray
Bo Beskow's Two by Two reviewed by Paul Edwards
John Matthias & Göran Printz-Påhlson Contemporary Swedish Poetry reviewed by Norman MacCaig
Daniel Hoffman Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing reviewed by Randall Stevenson