Ploughshares Spring 1980

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