Cencrastus No. 18: Autumn 1984

FeaturesLand Raids and the Scottish Left (Part 1), by Ray BurnettScotland and the Spanish Civil War, by Ian S. WoodPopular Fiction in Victorian Scotland: Gavin Greig as Novelist by William DonaldsonPortrait of a Painter: Alasdair Taylor by Alasdair GrayGenerous Spritited Heart: The Poetry of George Campbell Hay John BurnsAndy Hunter: The Man the Wind Blew Over by Jim GilchristTom Murray: Veteran of Spain by Ian MacDougallHelen Biggar and the Socialist Counter-Culture ay Alan LovellHeather-Scented Soap by Julie WattFictionExtract from The Magic Flute by Alan SpenceExtract from A Twelvemonth and a Day by Cristopher RushExtract from Summer Rite by Ian RankinPoetryPoems by Duncan Glen, George Gunn, Stephen Andrews, Ian Stephen and Gordon Meade.ReviewsJock's Janine: Alasdair Gray, 1982 Janine, reviewed by Bob TaitHogg's Sir Walter: James Hogg, Anecdotes of Sir W. Scott, reviewed by Gillian HughesGaelic Civilisation and the 'Utterly Barbarous': Derick Thomson (ed.), The Companion to Gaelic Scotland, reviewed by Seumas GranndRorie: Poetic Ethnographer: William Donaldson (ed.), David Rorie: Poems and Prose, reviewed by David BuchanJanet Caird, A Distant Urn, reviewed by Joy HendryFrench Canadian Writing: Richard Teleky (ed.), The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories, reviewed by Martin BowmanThe Contemporary Writ: Firebird 3 and New Writing Scotland, reviewed by Ian RankinProfessional Provincialism: Nicholas Phillipson (ed.), Universities, Society and the Future, reviewed by Peter ChieneQuickening the Imagination: Gael Turnbull, A Gathering of Poems, 1950 - 1980, reviewed by Cairns CraigGordimer's South Africa: Nadine Gordimer, Somewhere Out There, reviewed by Alison GirdwoodRoger Milner, Reith: The BBC Years, reviewed by Dave McKieTessa Ramsford, Fools and Angels, reviewed by Joy PitmanAlexandra Kollantai, Selected Writings, reviewed by Mary Buckley