Prologue : not your muse / Paula Meehan
J'ai mal a nos dents ; Nuns : a subject for a woman writer / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Weakness ; "Between the snow and the huge roses" / Mary O'Malley
In memoriam Elly Ni Dhomhnaill (1884-1963) ; Ce leis tu? / Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
Crypt ; An appetite for fasting? / Catherine Byron
The Mahonys observed ; Married to the enemy / Eithne Strong
From Anna Liffey ; The Irish woman poet : her place in Irish literature / Eavan Boland
Apple ; Coming of age / Joan Newmann
Night ; The poetry of what happens / Moya Cannon
Crystal night ; Rescuers and white cloaks : diary, 1968-1969 / Medbh McGuckian
Epilogue : poetry doesn't pay / Rita Ann Higgins.