Cencrastus No. 11: New Year 1983

Features'Scotch Reels' and After by Colin McArthurWoman, Women and Scotland: 'Scotch Reels' and Political Perspectives by Douglas and Ouainé Bain and Gillian SkirrowVisitors from the Stars: Scottish Film Culture by Cairns CraigNo Flowers by Request by Eddie BoydAlexander Trocchi: A Portrait of Cain by Andy ScottRoman in the Gloamin by Willie SlavinIndependence and the Scottish Political Imagination by Tony CartyNeil M. Gunn: Celebration of the Light by John BurnsHugh MacDiarmid and John MacLean by Raymond J. RossCain's Book: An Extract by Alexander TrocchiAn Evening's Sport by Geddes ThomsonSonnets from Scotland by Edwin MorganPoetryPoems by William S. Milne, John Haggarty and Robin RobertsonReviewsR.H. Campbell & Andrew Skinner (eds.), The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment, reviewed by William FergusonMarquez - Faction or Fiction?: Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, reviewed by John HerdmanScottish Folk: Patrick Shuldman-Shaw and Emily B. Lyle (eds.), The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection; Alan Bruford (ed.), The Green Man of Knowledge and other Scots Traditional Tales; and Billy Kay (ed.), Odyssey: The Second Collection, reviewed by Adam T. McNaughton'Scotch Reels' in Motion: Colin McArthur (ed.), Scotch Reels: Scotland in Cinema and Television, reviewed by John McKieThomas Pychon, The Small Rain, reviewed by Randall StevensonHugh MacDiarmid: Perspectives: Ann Edwards Boutelle, Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry; Kenneth Buthlay, Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Greive); and Walter Perrie, Out of Conflict, reviewed by Glen MurrayOriginal Instruments:Ron Butlin, The Exquisite Instrument, reviewed by Brian HoltonAfter the '79: John Bochel, David Denver and Alan Macartney (eds.), The Referendum Experience: Scotland 1979, reviewed by James WilkieCrichton Smith: Poetry and Prose: Iain Crichton Smith, Selected Poems 1955 - 1980; A Field Full of Folk, reviewed by Cairns CraigExpending Scotland: Margaret Cuthbert (ed.), Government Spending in Scotland, reviewed by David SimpsonDirected Irony: John Byrne, The Slab Boys; Robert McLellan, Collected Plays, reviewed by Raymond J. RossSpadework in Early Scotland: Robert A. Dodgshon, Land and Society in Early Scotland, reviewed by Hugh CheapeDouble Exposure: Barthes on Photography: Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, reviewed by Stan SmithThe Art of Barlinnie: Christopher Carrell & Joyce Laing (eds.), The Special Unit Barlinnie Prison: Its Evolution Through its Art, reviewed by Anthony Ross