Description
In setting the poets side by side, this volume also highlights the two main faith traditions of the West: Deane with his Roman Catholic background, rooted in the landscape of Mayo; and Harpur with his Protestant (Church of Ireland and Quaker) heritage, influenced by myth, medieval history and mystics. Their two approaches to everyday life and ultimate reality - including nature, saints and mystics, music, art, prayer, and issues of faith and doubt - combine to make a single volume full of lyrical beauty and powerful witness. In addition, an afterword consisting of an informal dialogue between the two poets complements in prose the themes their poems explore. This is a book to challenge, console, delight and make its readers think again about their own journeys through this "vale of soul-making".
The Irish Pages Press will always be characterized two essential and necessary components, flowing from the outstanding standards of the journal in an age of media noise and publishing hyperbole: liter- ary content of exceptional quality, and production values (always hardback) equal to any in these is- lands. Apart from issues of finance, the sole criteria for publication by the press are the distinction of the writing and the integrity and independence of the individual voice
About the Author
John F. Deane was born in 1943 on Achill Island, Co Mayo. He is the author of two novels and thirteen collections of poems, most recently Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New and Selected Poems (2012), Semibreve (2015), Dear Pilgrims (2018) and Naming of the Bones (2021), all from Carcanet Press. He is also the author of a memoir, Give Dust a Tongue (Columba, 2015). He was President of the European Academy of Poetry and was made Chevalier en l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Government. In 1979, he founded Poetry Ireland, the national poetry organization, and Poetry Ireland Review. He is a member of Aosdana, and divides his time between Dublin and Leitrim. James Harpur was born in 1956 in England and studied Classics and English at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of six volumes of poetry, most recently The White Silhouette (Carcanet, 2018) and The Oratory of Light (Wild Goose, 2021), the latter inspired by St Columba and St Iona, as well as a translation of Boethius' poetry and a work of non-fiction on Christian mysticism. He has taught English on Crete, worked as a lexicographer and now concentrates solely on poetry. He is a member of Aosdana, and lives near Clonakilty, West Cork.
Reviews
"Both truth-tellers who deal in beauty and a special lyric humility, Deane and Harpur have created an extraordinarily resonant duologue about the spiritual journey." Fiona Sampson, poet and editor
Book Information
ISBN 9781838201852
Author John F. Deane
Format Hardback
Page Count 152
Imprint The Irish Pages Press
Publisher IRISH PAGES
Dimensions(mm) 21mm * 13mm * 1mm
The Irish Pages Press will always be characterized two essential and necessary components, flowing from the outstanding standards of the journal in an age of media noise and publishing hyperbole: liter- ary content of exceptional quality, and production values (always hardback) equal to any in these is- lands. Apart from issues of finance, the sole criteria for publication by the press are the distinction of the writing and the integrity and independence of the individual voice
About the Author
John F. Deane was born in 1943 on Achill Island, Co Mayo. He is the author of two novels and thirteen collections of poems, most recently Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New and Selected Poems (2012), Semibreve (2015), Dear Pilgrims (2018) and Naming of the Bones (2021), all from Carcanet Press. He is also the author of a memoir, Give Dust a Tongue (Columba, 2015). He was President of the European Academy of Poetry and was made Chevalier en l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Government. In 1979, he founded Poetry Ireland, the national poetry organization, and Poetry Ireland Review. He is a member of Aosdana, and divides his time between Dublin and Leitrim. James Harpur was born in 1956 in England and studied Classics and English at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of six volumes of poetry, most recently The White Silhouette (Carcanet, 2018) and The Oratory of Light (Wild Goose, 2021), the latter inspired by St Columba and St Iona, as well as a translation of Boethius' poetry and a work of non-fiction on Christian mysticism. He has taught English on Crete, worked as a lexicographer and now concentrates solely on poetry. He is a member of Aosdana, and lives near Clonakilty, West Cork.
Reviews
"Both truth-tellers who deal in beauty and a special lyric humility, Deane and Harpur have created an extraordinarily resonant duologue about the spiritual journey." Fiona Sampson, poet and editor
Book Information
ISBN 9781838201852
Author John F. Deane
Format Hardback
Page Count 152
Imprint The Irish Pages Press
Publisher IRISH PAGES
Dimensions(mm) 21mm * 13mm * 1mm
