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’.
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
She Inserts the Key 
States of Happiness 
Comic Poems 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: A Book of Strange and Comic Poems