Alan Titley will be a familiar figure to the readers of these pages, no doubt. In it, I try to give both a detailed introduction to Titley’s writing and a critical map to help navigate it. In Titley, I aim to show that the mainstay of his characters, storylines, poems, literary criticism and political commentary can and should be understood as crystallisations of his ethical principles. The first sets out to articulate the ethical code that underpins Titley’s writing, and this is done in stages. The introduction to Titley includes a note of hope that the book will cast light both on the author’s published work and on the work yet to come.

Source: The Irish Times May 20, 2019 16:18 UTC