Cencrastus No. 14: Autumn 1983

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Features

An Interview with Brian Moore and Bernard MacLaverty by Geoff Parker
Scottish Legal Culture and the Withering Away of the State: A Study in MacCormick's Nationalism by Tony Carty
Peter Fyfe, Elspeth King examines the photographic work of the Glaswegian pioneer in social health
The Last of the People's Palaces, Freddy Anderson discusses the policies involved in financing Scotland's museums
Munn, Dunning and All That: New Directions for the Secondary School by Nigel Grant
Eddie McGuire - An Interview by Ray Ross
Highland Clearances, Peter Seddon discusses his exhibition with Ray Mackenzie
Fighting Back with Media Studies by David Lusted
A Note on Media Studies in Scotland by Robbie Robertson
Bill and Ben: The Innocent Men?, Glasgow Women Film Collective
Support Whose Local hero? by John Caughie
Looking at Visible Fictions by Andrew Tolson
The Life Ahead and Change of Scenery by Stewart Conn
A New Ballant of John MacLean, a previously unpublished poem by Sydney Goodsir Smith introduced by Nan Milton
Hector of the Battles, an epic poet by Iain Crichton Smith
Poems translated from Hungarian by George Gömöri and Clive Wilmer
Finn: An Extract from a Poem Cycle by Harvey Holton

Reviews

Images of Glasgow: Hamish Whyte , Noise and Smoky Breath, reviewed by Elspeth King
Kathleen Jamie, Black Spiders; Johnston Kirkpatrick, Peter McDonald, Trevor McMahon, Trio Poetry 3; Sean O'Brien, The Indoor Park; Leopold Staff, An Empty Room; and Marin Sorescu, Selected Poems; reviewed by Valerie Gillies
Smith's Cornucopia: Sydney Goodsir Smith, Carotid Cornucopius, reviewed by John Burns
Changing Planes in Toronto: Wayne Grady , The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, reviewed by Kent Thompson
Colin MacCabe , James Joyce: New Perspectives, reviewed by George Watson
Jeffrey: The Northern Athenian: Peter F. Morgan , Jeffrey's Criticism: A Selection, reviewed by Douglas S. Mack
Ralf Dahrendorf, On Britain, reviewed by Christopher Harvie
Gordon M. Wilson, Alexander McDonald: Leader of the Miners, reviewed by Alan Campbell
Novy Mir and the Stalinist Whirlwing: Eugenia Ginzburg, Within the Whirlwind; and Edith Rogovin Frankel, Novy Mir: A Case Study in the Politics of Literature 1952 - 1958, reviewed by Edwin Morgan
Ian B. Cowal and Duncan Shaw , The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland, reviewed by Keith Brown
The Typical Fiscal; S.R. Moody and J. Tombs, Prosecution in the Public Interest, reviewed by Jessica M. Burns
Victor Durkacz, The Decline of Celtic Languages, reviewed by Findlay MacNeil
Olive Checkland and Margaret Lamb , Health Care as Social History: The Glasgow Case, reviewed by David Hamilton