Cencrastus No. 22: Winter 1986

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Features

Devolution Diary by Neal Ascherson
Retrospective Ian Hamilton Finlay
Poetics of the Open Universe by Kenneth White
Early Finlay by Edwin Morgan
Signs of the Times: Concrete Poetry in Retrospect by Stephen Scobie
'Hedgehog' Stonypath & the Little Spartan Wars by Patrick Eyres
Apollo in Strathclyde by Stephen Bann
How I Became a Sound-Poet by Tom Leonard

Ian Hamilton Finlay Artworks

- Interpolation in Hegel
- Arrow
- A Meditation
- Temple of Bara
- Scheizergarten project, Vienna

Poetry

Hullo, Mormond Hill by David Craig
The Ocean Way and The Great-Work-Field by Kenneth White
8th and 12th Delirium by W.N. Herbert

Reviews

Trahusion d'un Clerc: James D. Young, Women and Popular Struggles: A History of the British Working-Class, reviewed by James F. McMillan
Out of the Museum: Tom Steel, Scotland's Story; John Prebble, John Prebble's Scotland; Ian MacDougall, Labour in Scotland: A Pictorial History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present; R.H. Campbell, Scotland Since 1707, reviewed by James D. Young
Power of the Past: Pat Thane , The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawn; Eric Hobsbawm, Worlds of Labour; Tony Benn, Writings on the Wall: A Radical and Socialist Anthology, 1215 - 1984; Brian Jenkins and Gunter Minnerup, Citizens and Comrades: Socialism in a World of Nation States, reviewed by Lindsay Paterson
Traditional Insecurities: Isobel Murray and Bob Tait, Ten Modern Scottish Novels; Manfred Malzahn, Aspects of Identity: The Contemporary Scottish Novel ; Alan Bold, Muriel Spark: An Odd Capacity for Vision; and Douglas Gifford, The Dear Green Place: The Novel in the West of Scotland, reviewed by Glenda Norquay
The Auld Orange and Green: Bill Murray, The Old Firm: Sectrarianism and Society in Scotland, reviewed by Raymond J. Ross
Soor Herts in Ongoing Problemmatic Winters: Muriel Spark, The Only Problem; Tom Gallacher, Journeyman; Robert Alan Jamieson, Soor Hearts; and Ronald Frame, Winter Journey, reviewed by John Burns
Art for Humanity's Sake: Joe Corrie, Plays, Poems & Theatre Writings, reviewed by Raymond J. Ross