Collected Writings: Vol.1

Personal concerns. A thematic arrangement in seven books (often semi-autobiographical) of work developed 1957-2005. In 'Ramore': Alexander might have wished for a spiritual career. He grows a sensibility fit for nothing but literary endeavour. 'Shannow' is an 'experimental' writing, in a personal landscape hung with lexical mobiles; the effect is musical rather than narrative until life intervenes - as if the time-signature had changed to nineteen-&-elevenpence-three-farthings. 'Leocan': an agitprop romp round Dublin'70s - games with guns. 'Sherca': a playtext after Sophocles: dropout revolutionary with ESP gift. 'Dugort': island family life, pottering about with ineffectual co-op commitments; excusable in Ireland, enough to get you shot in El Salvador. 'Turma': ideas bang their heads against establishment walls, with much polemical resonance. 'The Fiagach': treats of marital discord - The Shaming of the True - will you get blamed for what you didn't do Shouldn't you