Ploughshares Spring 1980 Guest-Edited by Seamus Heaney

The Spring 1980 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Seamus Heaney. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Table of Contents

FICTION
"All Sorts of Impossible Things," by John McGahern
"Fionn in the Valley," by Benedict Kiely
"Excerpt from Kepler: A Novel," by John Banville
Excerpt from "Translations" by Brian Friel

NONFICTION
"On Benedict Kiely," by Thomas Flanagan
"From Nineveh to the Harbour Bar," by Brian Donnelly
"Irish Fiction Since 1966: Challenge, Themes, Promise.," by George O'Brien

POETRY
Paul Muldoon
Seamus Deane
John Montague
James Simmons
Ted Hughes
Norman MacCaig
Iain Crichton Smith
Paul Durcan
Seamus Heaney
Desmond O'Grady
Derek Mahon
Eilean Ni Cuilleanain