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’.
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Breathe and Be 
Out of Bounds 
Opposite 
Tokens for the Foundlings 
The Drug of Art 
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes