Cencrastus No. 9: Summer 1992

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Features

Comment
Peripheries by Cairns Craig
Christo: A New Work in Miami / An Imaginary Visit to Scotland by Wesley K. Wark
Borges and Argentina: A Relocation by Neil Mackay
In Search of the Scottish Renaissance: The Reprinting of Scottish Fiction by Douglas Gifford
Socialism and Nationalism in Scotland by James D. Young

Fiction

Violent Delight, an extract from a forthcoming novel by Simon Gikandi
The Polish Princess and Rehearsals for First Love by Ron Butlin

Poetry

3 poems by Frank M. Chipasula
Shetlandic Poems by U. Iain McColl
City of Our Child by John Berger
Poems by Ian Stephen
4 Poems by Roderick Watson

Reviews

constructing Scotland: David Daiches , A Companion to Scottish Culture and Harold Orel, Henry L. Snyder Marilyn Stokstad , The Scottish World, reviewed by Colin MacArthur
Peterhead: Town as Polity: Frank Bealey and John Sewel, The Politics of Independence: A Study of a Scottish Town, reviewed by J.M. Bochel
Clearance and Capital: Eric Richards, A History of the Highland Clearances: Agrarian transformation and the Evictions 1746 - 1886, reviewed by Victor Durcacz
Gaelic Circumscriptions: Donald John MacLeod, 20th Century Publications in Scottish Gaelic, reviewed by Ronald L. Black
The Common Sense Evangelical: James McCosh: J. David Hoeveler Jr., James McCosh and the Scottish Intellectual Tradition, reviewed by Andrew Hook
Maxwell's Field of Knowledge: Ivan Tolstoy, James Clerk Maxwell: A Biography, reviewed by R.M. Sillitto
Edwin Muir's 'Scottish' Criticism: Andrew Noble , Edwin Muir: Uncollected Scottish Criticism and Edwin Muir, Poor Tom, reviewed by Sheila G. Hearn
Wallace the Whiz: Tom Scott, Tales of William Wallace, reviewed by David Meldrum
Peacocks and Pagodas: Dorothy K. Haynes, Peacocks and Pagodas and the Best of Dorothy K. Haynes, reviewed by Elspeth Davie
One Volume, More Space: Willis Pickard , Scottish Short Stories 1981, reviewed by Bernard MacLaverty
Ulster Promontory, Irish Hinterland: Thomas McCarthy, The Sorrow Garden, Tom Paulin and Noel Connor, The Book of Juniper and Aquarius 12, reviewed by Gerald Mangan
Notes to Lyrics: John Herdman, Voice Without Restraint, reviewed by Peter Womack
An Honorable Legacy: 'Scrutiny' and Politics: Francis Mulhern, The Moment of Scrutiny, reviewed by Kevin Keys
The Privacy industry of franz Kafka: Elias Canetti, Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice, reviewed by Randall Stevenson
Sysyphean Labours: Gunter Grass, Headbirths, or The Germans are Dying Out and Heinrich Boll, The Safety Net, reviewed by Brian Murdoch
Carlos Drummond de Anrade, The Minus Sign, reviewed by Giovanni Pontiero
Guy Butler and Chris Mann , A New Book of South African Verse in English, reviewed by Patricia Morris
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Invisible Threads, reviewed by David McDuff