Cencrastus No. 19: Winter 1984

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Features

John Anderson, Philosopher by Craig Beveridge and Ronald Turnbull
Drunk Men looking at Thistles by Christopher Harvie
The New Right and Scotland by David McCrone
Nation and History by Cairns Craig
La Puissance et les Reves - 3 Intermezzos by Regis Debra, translated by Sian Reynolds
Scottish Painting: The Later Enlightenment by Duncan Macmillan
Scottish International Provocateur by Bob Tait
The Poetry of Violet Jacob & Helen Cruickshank by Janet Caird
New Strategies for the Anti-Colonial Cinema by David Will
The Story So Far... by John Caughie
Developing a Scottish Film Culture by David Bruce
Writer at Work by Jessie Kesson

Poetry

Poems by Gael Turnbull, Gerrie Fllows, Robin Fulton and Robin Hamilton

Reviews

Typewriter Therapy: Jimmy Boyle, The Pain of Confinement: Prison Diaries, reviewed by Raymond J. Ross
The Enlightenment Experience: Charles Camic, Experience and Enlightenment: Socialisation for Cultural Change in Eighteenth Century Scotland, reviewed by Craig Beveridge
Sir Thomas's Gem: Sir Thomas Urquhart, The Jewel, reviewed by David Reid
Scottish Mission: Christine Johnson, Developments in the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, reviewed by James F. McMillan
Where Joyce Lefy Off: B.S. Johnson, House Mother Normal, reviewed by Randall Stevenson
Gaelic Geography: C.W.J. Withers, Gaelic in Scotland 1698 - 1981, reviewed by Pádraig Ó Macháin
The Development Shift: T.M. Devine and David Dickson , Ireland and Scotland: Parallels and Contrasts in Economic and Social Development, reviewed by John Cooney
Against the Current: Raymond Falconer, Duncan Glen, Geddes Thomson and Raymond Vettese Four Scottish Poets, reviewed by Mario Relich
Fiddlers' Contagion: James Scott Skinner, A Guide to Bowing, reviewed by Stuart Eydmann
John Shaw, Water Power in Scotland 1550 - 1870, reviewed by Alastair J. Durie
Ernest Gelner, Nations and Nationalism, reviewed by William Wolfe
Oscar Marzaroli, One Man's Photographs 1955 - 84, reviewed by Elspeth King
Resistances: Paul Hyland, The Stubborn Forest; David Constantine and Rodney Pybus, Talith Cumi; William Logan, Difficulty; George Macbeth, The Long Darkness; Michael Hamburger, Collected Poems; Herbert Lomas, Fire in the Garden; Charles Tomlinson, Notes from New York; Adrian Mitchell, On the Beach at Cambridge; Edith Snodergran, Complete Poems; Anna Taylor, Fausta: A Phantasmagoria; and Marilyn Bowering, Giving Back Diamonds, reviewed by Stan Smith