Scottish and International Literature, Arts and Affairs.
Features
Cadence, Country, Silence: Writing in Colonial Space by Dennis Lee
Encounter with the Third World by Stephen Maxwell
Carnets by Victor Serge, translated by John Manson
Inside the Kist of Glendulochan: Thoughts on Political Fiction by William Donaldson
Bards of the Boards Unite! by Hugh McBain
F.G. Scott 1880 - 1958 by George Bruce
Fearful Selves: Character, Community and the Scottish Immagination by Cairns Craig
Scotland and the Art of Nationalism by Duncan MacMillan
Poetry
Vietnamese poems translated by Mary Cowan. Poetry by Gunther Kunert, Michael Hamburger, J.P. Dick, Sally Evans, Fred Johnstone, David A. Kemp, Walter Perrie, Alexander Small, Iain Crichton Smith and Graham Taylor.
Reviews
Prophet Unhonoured: Maurice Lindsay, Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance, reviewed by Raymond J. Ross
Naomi Mitchison, Images of Africa, reviewed by Ian Fullerton
David L. Schalk, The Spectrum of Political Engagement, reviewed by John Manson
A View from Above: A.N. Wilson, The Laird of Abbotsford: A View of Sir Walter Scott, reviewed by David McKie
Robert Garioch, Collected Poems reviewed by Douglas Dunn
Duncan Glen, Realities Poems, reviewed by Peter Scott
Athol Fugard, Tsotsi, reviewed by Ian Fullerton
Diana Der Hovanessian , Anthology of Armenian Poetry, reviewed by Edwin Morgan
Andrei Bely, First Encounter, reviewed by Michael Falchikov
Reginald Gibbons & Anthony L. Geist , Guillén on Guillén: The Poetry and the Poet, reviewed by Jim Chambers
Steven Gould Axelrod, Robert Lowell: Life and Art, reviewed by Iain Crichton Smith
Blake Morrison, The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction in the 1950s: Peter Jones & Michael Schmidt , British Poetry Since 1970: D.J. Enright , The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945 - 1980, reviewed by Glen Murray
Basil Bunting reads Briggflatts, reviewed by Colin E. Nicholson
Scottish Short Stories 1980 reviewed by Christine Bold
Herik Tikkanen, Snob's Island, reviewed by John Herdman
Giles Gordon, Ambrose's Vision: Sketches Towards the Creation of a Cathedral, reviewed by Jonathan Sawday
Robin Jenkins, The Conegatherers
Jessie Kesson, The White Bird Passes, reviewed by William Donaldson
Green Flags and Bowler Hats: Julia O8Faolain, No Country for Young Men, reviewed by George Watson
Knut Hamson, Wayfarers, reviewed by Wesley K. Wark
Alberto Moravia, Desecration, reviewed by James Kelman
Edwin Morgan , Scottish Satirical Verse, reviewed by Sheila G. Hearn
Scottish and International Literature, Arts and Affairs.
Features
Cadence, Country, Silence: Writing in Colonial Space by Dennis Lee
Encounter with the Third World by Stephen Maxwell
Carnets by Victor Serge, translated by John Manson
Inside the Kist of Glendulochan: Thoughts on Political Fiction by William Donaldson
Bards of the Boards Unite! by Hugh McBain
F.G. Scott 1880 - 1958 by George Bruce
Fearful Selves: Character, Community and the Scottish Immagination by Cairns Craig
Scotland and the Art of Nationalism by Duncan MacMillan
Poetry
Vietnamese poems translated by Mary Cowan. Poetry by Gunther Kunert, Michael Hamburger, J.P. Dick, Sally Evans, Fred Johnstone, David A. Kemp, Walter Perrie, Alexander Small, Iain Crichton Smith and Graham Taylor.
Reviews
Prophet Unhonoured: Maurice Lindsay, Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance, reviewed by Raymond J. Ross
Naomi Mitchison, Images of Africa, reviewed by Ian Fullerton
David L. Schalk, The Spectrum of Political Engagement, reviewed by John Manson
A View from Above: A.N. Wilson, The Laird of Abbotsford: A View of Sir Walter Scott, reviewed by David McKie
Robert Garioch, Collected Poems reviewed by Douglas Dunn
Duncan Glen, Realities Poems, reviewed by Peter Scott
Athol Fugard, Tsotsi, reviewed by Ian Fullerton
Diana Der Hovanessian , Anthology of Armenian Poetry, reviewed by Edwin Morgan
Andrei Bely, First Encounter, reviewed by Michael Falchikov
Reginald Gibbons & Anthony L. Geist , Guillén on Guillén: The Poetry and the Poet, reviewed by Jim Chambers
Steven Gould Axelrod, Robert Lowell: Life and Art, reviewed by Iain Crichton Smith
Blake Morrison, The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction in the 1950s: Peter Jones & Michael Schmidt , British Poetry Since 1970: D.J. Enright , The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945 - 1980, reviewed by Glen Murray
Basil Bunting reads Briggflatts, reviewed by Colin E. Nicholson
Scottish Short Stories 1980 reviewed by Christine Bold
Herik Tikkanen, Snob's Island, reviewed by John Herdman
Giles Gordon, Ambrose's Vision: Sketches Towards the Creation of a Cathedral, reviewed by Jonathan Sawday
Robin Jenkins, The Conegatherers
Jessie Kesson, The White Bird Passes, reviewed by William Donaldson
Green Flags and Bowler Hats: Julia O8Faolain, No Country for Young Men, reviewed by George Watson
Knut Hamson, Wayfarers, reviewed by Wesley K. Wark
Alberto Moravia, Desecration, reviewed by James Kelman
Edwin Morgan , Scottish Satirical Verse, reviewed by Sheila G. Hearn