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A History through Publications

On the Maynooth University site there is a detailed, and largely accurate, account of The Lace Curtain

1967

Sole Glum Trek

Trevor Joyce

Endsville

Brian Lynch

Paul Durcan

1968

With the Woodnymphs

Michael Smith

Dedications

Michael Smith

1969

Billy the Kid

Jack Spicer

Poems

Jorge Luis Borges

(Translated by Anthony Kerrigan)

The Lace Curtain: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism No. 1

Edited by Michael Smith, Trevor Joyce

Editorial

Poetry:

Brian Lynch, Kay Boyle, James Hogan, Pearse Hutchinson, Michael Smith, Macdara Woods, Paul Durcan, Tom Hill, Hayden Murphy, Howard McCord, Damien Kiberd, Trevor Joyce, Anthony Cronin, Bill Siverly, Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin, Knute Skinner, Anthony Kerrigan, Michael Hartnett, Leland Bardwell, James Liddy

Criticism:

James Hogan, Michael Smith, Trevor Joyce, David Polk, Jim Chapson, James Liddy, Leon Trotsky, D.R. O'Connor Lysaght

No Die Cast

Brian Lynch

Watches

Trevor Joyce

Homage to James Thomson (B.V.) at Portobello

Michael Smith

The Hag of Beare: A Rendition of the Old Irish

Michael Hartnett

The Flags are Quiet

Gerard Smyth

Survival

Augustus Young

1970

Friend Songs: Mediaeval Galaicoportuguese Love Poems

(Translated by Pearse Hutchinson)

The Lace Curtain: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism, No. 2

Edited by Michael Smith, Trevor Joyce

Editorial

Poetry

Pearse Hutchinson, Jorge E. Eielson, Augustus Young, Gerard Smyth, Geoffrey Hazard, James Tate, John Montague, Javier Heraud, Georg Trakl, Trevor Joyce, Michael Kane, Anthony Kerrigan, Antonio Machado, P.M.O'Brien Burkley, Knute Skinner, Michael Smith, Niall Montgomery, Lorna Reynolds, Peter Prachar, Paul Durcan, Michael Hartnett, Pamela Good. Macdara Woods

Criticism

D.R.O'Connor Lysaght, Michael Kane

The Mad Cyclist

Leland Bardwell

Decimal D. Sec Drinks in a Bar in Marrakesch

Macdara Woods

Twenty Poems

Gerard Smyth

The Lace Curtain: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism, No. 3

Edited by Michael Smith, Trevor Joyce

Editorial, Michael Smith: "Irish Poetry and Penguin Verse"

Poetry

Gerard Smyth, Mathieu Bénézet, Desmond O'Grady, Leland Bardwell, Brian Coffey, Geoffrey Hazard, Augustus Young, Michael Hartnett, Denis Devlin, Michael Smith, John Jordan, Trevor Joyce, Paul Murray, Brian Lynch, Gottfried Benn, Howard McCord, Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin, Georg Trakl

Criticism

Samuel Beckett, Michael Smith, Niall Montgomery

Notes on Contibutors

Selected Poems

Michael Hartnett

How We Died

Thomas Tessier

Un Hombre Pasa

César Vallejo

(Translated by Michael Smith)

1971

Versheet 1

Brian Coffey

Versheet 2

Robert Pawlowski

Hellas

Desmond O'Grady

Patrician Stations

John Jordan

Ritual Poems

Paul Murray

The Lace Curtain: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism, No. 4

Edited by Michael Smith, Brian Coffey

Editorial, Michael Smith
Poetry

Samuel Beckett, Brian Coffey, Denis Devlin, Lyle Donaghy, Patrick Kavanagh, A.J.Leventhal, Patrick MacDonagh, Thomas MacGreevy, Niall Montgomery, Myles na gCopaleen, Arthur Power, George Reavey, Lorna Reynolds

Criticism

Samuel Beckett, Michael Smith, Samuel Beckett, Niall Montgomery, Michael Smith, Austin Clarke

Notes on Contributors

Tao: A Version of the Chinese Classic of the Sixth Century B.C.

Michael Hartnett

Versheet 3: Homage to Patrick Kavanagh

James Liddy

Versheet 4: Such a Heart Dances Out

Thomas Dillon Redshaw

Collected Poems

Thomas MacGreevy

Selected Poems

Brian Coffey

On Loaning Hill

Augustus Young

1972

Pentahedron

Trevor Joyce

Ceremonies for Today

Robert Pawlowski

Blood Relations

Tom MacIntyre

The Wood-Burners

Patrick Galvin

1973

Collected Poems 1950-1973

Anthony Cronin

1974

The Lace Curtain: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism, No. 5

Edited by Michael Smith

Contributors:

Michael Smith, Augustus Young, Patrick Galvin, Niall Montgomery, Stan Smith, John Sharkey, Brian Coffey, Josef Jelen, Antonin Bartusek, Niall Montgomery, James Liddy, Patrick Galvin, James Liddy, John Jordan, Augustus Young, Michael Smith, Neil Mills, Anthony Kerrigan, Tom Phillips, Gerard Smyth, Sean Connolly, Neil Belton, Paul Murray, Jorge Carrera Andrade, A.C.Dawe, Thomas Kinsella, Derek Mahon, Asa Benveniste, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Mairtín Ó Direáin, Micheal Ó hUanachain, Michael Davitt, Gabriel Rosenstock, Tomás MacSíomóin, Seán Ó Leocháin, Pablo Neruda

1975

Drowned Stones

Geoffrey Squires

1976

The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine: A Working of the Corrupt Irish Text

Trevor Joyce

Early Poems

Antonio Machado

(Translated by Michael Smith)

1977

World Without End

Gerard Smyth

1978

The Lace Curtain: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism, No. 6

Edited by Michael Smith
Poetry

Augustus Young, Michael Smith, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Anthony Kerrigan, Trevor Joyce, Gerard Smyth, Antonio Colinas, Ingeborg Bachmann, Robert Desnos, Brian Coffey, Niall Montgomery

Criticism:

Stan Smith, Anthony Cronin

Notes on Contributors