Cencrastus No. 19: Winter 1984

FeaturesJohn Anderson, Philosopher by Craig Beveridge and Ronald TurnbullDrunk Men looking at Thistles by Christopher HarvieThe New Right and Scotland by David McCroneNation and History by Cairns CraigLa Puissance et les Reves - 3 Intermezzos by Regis Debra, translated by Sian ReynoldsScottish Painting: The Later Enlightenment by Duncan MacmillanScottish International Provocateur by Bob TaitThe Poetry of Violet Jacob & Helen Cruickshank by Janet CairdNew Strategies for the Anti-Colonial Cinema by David WillThe Story So Far... by John CaughieDeveloping a Scottish Film Culture by David BruceWriter at Work by Jessie KessonPoetryPoems by Gael Turnbull, Gerrie Fllows, Robin Fulton and Robin HamiltonReviewsTypewriter Therapy: Jimmy Boyle, The Pain of Confinement: Prison Diaries, reviewed by Raymond J. RossThe Enlightenment Experience: Charles Camic, Experience and Enlightenment: Socialisation for Cultural Change in Eighteenth Century Scotland, reviewed by Craig BeveridgeSir Thomas's Gem: Sir Thomas Urquhart, The Jewel, reviewed by David ReidScottish Mission: Christine Johnson, Developments in the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, reviewed by James F. McMillanWhere Joyce Lefy Off: B.S. Johnson, House Mother Normal, reviewed by Randall StevensonGaelic Geography: C.W.J. Withers, Gaelic in Scotland 1698 - 1981, reviewed by Pádraig Ó MacháinThe Development Shift: T.M. Devine and David Dickson (eds.), Ireland and Scotland: Parallels and Contrasts in Economic and Social Development, reviewed by John CooneyAgainst the Current: Raymond Falconer, Duncan Glen, Geddes Thomson and Raymond Vettese Four Scottish Poets, reviewed by Mario RelichFiddlers' Contagion: James Scott Skinner, A Guide to Bowing, reviewed by Stuart EydmannJohn Shaw, Water Power in Scotland 1550 - 1870, reviewed by Alastair J. DurieErnest Gelner, Nations and Nationalism, reviewed by William WolfeOscar Marzaroli, One Man's Photographs 1955 - 84, reviewed by Elspeth KingResistances: 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