Cencrastus No. 4: Winter 1980 - 1981

Scottish and International Literature, Arts and Affairs.FeaturesCadence, Country, Silence: Writing in Colonial Space by Dennis LeeEncounter with the Third World by Stephen MaxwellCarnets (1944) by Victor Serge, translated by John MansonInside the Kist of Glendulochan: Thoughts on Political Fiction by William DonaldsonBards of the Boards Unite! by Hugh McBainF.G. Scott 1880 - 1958 by George BruceFearful Selves: Character, Community and the Scottish Immagination by Cairns CraigScotland and the Art of Nationalism by Duncan MacMillanPoetryVietnamese poems translated by Mary Cowan. Poetry by Gunther Kunert, Michael Hamburger, J.P. Dick, Sally Evans, Fred Johnstone, David A. Kemp, Walter Perrie, Alexander Small, Iain Crichton Smith and Graham Taylor.ReviewsProphet Unhonoured: Maurice Lindsay, Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance, reviewed by Raymond J. RossNaomi Mitchison, Images of Africa, reviewed by Ian FullertonDavid L. Schalk, The Spectrum of Political Engagement, reviewed by John MansonA View from Above: A.N. Wilson, The Laird of Abbotsford: A View of Sir Walter Scott, reviewed by David McKieRobert Garioch, Collected Poems reviewed by Douglas DunnDuncan Glen, Realities Poems, reviewed by Peter ScottAthol Fugard, Tsotsi, reviewed by Ian FullertonDiana Der Hovanessian (ed.), Anthology of Armenian Poetry, reviewed by Edwin MorganAndrei Bely, First Encounter, reviewed by Michael FalchikovReginald Gibbons & Anthony L. Geist (eds.), Guillén on Guillén: The Poetry and the Poet, reviewed by Jim ChambersSteven Gould Axelrod, Robert Lowell: Life and Art, reviewed by Iain Crichton SmithBlake Morrison, The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction in the 1950s: Peter Jones & Michael Schmidt (eds.), British Poetry Since 1970: D.J. Enright (ed.), The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945 - 1980, reviewed by Glen MurrayBasil Bunting reads Briggflatts, reviewed by Colin E. NicholsonScottish Short Stories 1980 reviewed by Christine BoldHerik Tikkanen, Snob's Island, reviewed by John HerdmanGiles Gordon, Ambrose's Vision: Sketches Towards the Creation of a Cathedral, reviewed by Jonathan SawdayRobin Jenkins, The ConegatherersJessie Kesson, The White Bird Passes, reviewed by William DonaldsonGreen Flags and Bowler Hats: Julia O8Faolain, No Country for Young Men, reviewed by George WatsonKnut Hamson, Wayfarers, reviewed by Wesley K. WarkAlberto Moravia, Desecration, reviewed by James KelmanEdwin Morgan (ed.), Scottish Satirical Verse, reviewed by Sheila G. Hearn