Description
John F. Deane is a vital presence in contemporary Irish poetry. The poems in this new collection combine lyric grace with a fiercely questing intelligence, pushing against the mysteries of faith in a fractured world, paying tribute to the value of human life and love. Running through the book is a thread of elegy for the poet's brother, who died of cancer in 2010. The collection concludes with a sequence describing a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Throughout, Deane gives poetic voice to the paradox of human existence as simultaneously 'blessed and broken'.
About the Author
John F. Deane was born on Achill Island in 1943. He founded Poetry Ireland - the National Poetry Society - and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1978, and is the founder of the Dedalus Press, of which he was editor from 1985 until 2006. His poetry has been shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2007 he was made Chevalier en l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French government. He is currently the editor of Poetry Ireland Review.
Book Information
ISBN 9781847772695
Author John F. Deane
Format Paperback
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
About the Author
John F. Deane was born on Achill Island in 1943. He founded Poetry Ireland - the National Poetry Society - and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1978, and is the founder of the Dedalus Press, of which he was editor from 1985 until 2006. His poetry has been shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2007 he was made Chevalier en l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French government. He is currently the editor of Poetry Ireland Review.
Book Information
ISBN 9781847772695
Author John F. Deane
Format Paperback
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
