Agenda: Irish Poetry Double Issue, edited by Patricia McCarthy (Agenda, £8 in UK)

This "little" magazine (nothing little about it, really) has been going now for nearly forty years, and seems able to call on limitless resources of energy. The editorial declares that this issue is an "attempt to map, and pay tribute to what is happening in a great literature". There are poems by Mahon,Longley, Heaney, Montague, Kinsella, Kennelly, Seamus Deane (good to see him in print again after what seems a long silence), and a host of others, as well as a clutch of thoughtful reviews. Stimulating, and great value. J.B.