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Books by John Deane
  | | Dear Pilgrims by John F. Deane Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2018 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-78410-586-0, ISBN: 1-78410-586-4 "With ‘Crocus: a brief history’, John F. Deane sets his Dear Pilgrims in motion, a series of brief histories of time, a time that is rich in incident and in redemption. In a decisively secular age, Deane’s is a poetry of Christian belief. It explores renewal, alive with and to the kinds of witness he has learned from George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins and R.S. Thomas. His ‘I’, like theirs, makes space for a reluctant ‘us’.Dear Pilgrim ..." |
 | | Give Dust a Tongue A Faith Memoir by John F. Deane Hardcover, 230 Pages, Published 2015 by Columba Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78218-218-4, ISBN: 1-78218-218-7 "A memoir that views the spiritual developments of the internationally acclaimed Irish poet, from the strict Roman Catholicism of his upbringing on Achill Island, through years spent in a Seminary, to marriage, personal tragedy, and the establishment of Poetry Ireland, to his present faith in Christ as the center of hope and evolution. The book uses many of Deane's best and best-loved poems to help chart this development" |
 | | Naming of the Bones (Paperback) by John F. Deane Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2021 by Carcanet Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-80017-188-6, ISBN: 1-80017-188-9 "The sequence 'Like the Dewfall' works with the music of the French composer Olivier Messiaen and his double piano masterpiece, 'Visions de l'Amen', a suite of seven pieces for two pianos, composed in 1943 during the Nazi Occupation of Paris ..." |
 | | Manhandling the Deity(1st Edition) by John F. Deane Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2003 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-85754-638-5, ISBN: 1-85754-638-5 "These poems of religiously shaped place and passion follow three offices of the church, leading toward a world blessed by reason. The voice is that of an Everyman fallen from grace who has the boldness to trust in the possibility of belief. Single poems and sequences, metered and free verse, make up this collection, in which the Psalms have taken flesh with the passion that King David knew and the grace that the Catholic mystics attest ..." |
 | | Where No Storms Come by John F. Deane Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2011 by Blackstaff Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-85640-858-8, ISBN: 0-85640-858-1 "This novel follows the lives of Patrick Brennan and Dorothy Lohan. Destined for the religious life and from different social backgrounds, they form an unlikely friendship. A moving story of destiny and desire, the novel follows the parallel trajectories of their lives through childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood, charting their struggles with the spiritual paths they have chosen. A powerful, beautiful, and thought-provoking novel ..." |
 | | Semibreve(1st Edition) (Paperback) by John F. Deane Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2015 by Carcanet Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-269-5, ISBN: 1-84777-269-2 "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 H ..." |
 | | The Works of Love Incarnation, Ecology and Poetry (Paperback) by John F. Deane Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2010 by Columba Press ISBN-13: 978-1-85607-709-5, ISBN: 1-85607-709-8 "The Works of Love is a study of poetry in the context of religious faith. The essays are short and focus on major poets including George Herbert, John Clare, Patrick Kavanagh and contemporary Irish poet Padraig J. Daly. The book looks at the poetry from a holistic perspective, exploring how these poets relate to Christ and Incarnation and hence to the physical universe, particularly through the lens of ecology, the Eucharist, and person ..." |
 | | Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 112. by John F Deane Published 2014 by Poetry Ireland Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-902121-50-5, ISBN: 1-902121-50-3 |
 | | Poetry Ireland Review Issue 109 by John F Deane Softcover, Published 2013 by Poetry Ireland ISBN-13: 978-1-902121-47-5, ISBN: 1-902121-47-3 |
 | | Achill The Island by John F. Deane, J. Behan Hardcover, 50 Pages, Published 2018 by Currach Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-78218-899-5, ISBN: 1-78218-899-1 "This special publication presents an in-depth awareness of the island of Achill, its heritage, its spirit, its physical wonder and its magical light and seas. The book brings together two acknowledged masters in their individual arts, and is a tribute to the island close to their hearts, where every grain of sand whispers a story." |
 | | Poetry Ireland Review Issue 105 by John F Deane Softcover, Published 2011 by Poetry Ireland ISBN-13: 978-1-902121-43-7, ISBN: 1-902121-43-0 |
 | | The Heather Fields and Other Stories by John F. Deane Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2007 by Blackstaff Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-85640-800-7, ISBN: 0-85640-800-X "In The Heather Fields, Reynolds' only friend has drowned and his neighbours have turned against him. Facing a cold and lonely future, he is simply marking time until his death, with only some pigs, chickens and the scolding shade of his mother for company. Life is as cruel as the land in The Eye of the Beholder. Living alone on a small, failing farm, Augustine Honeywell yearns for companionship, but God has dealt him 'a hand with not ev ..." |
 | | The Instruments of Art by John F. Deane Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2006 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-85754-786-3, ISBN: 1-85754-786-1 "The Instruments of Art uses poetry to explore the lives and works of Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh and others, the personal sacrifice involved, the singular vision and inspiration that set them in motion. God's creation, some argue, is a work of art, and Christ's life and death an expression of it. Deane follows this thread in a series of sonnets based on the Stations of the Cross. Another series of poems takes John the Evangelist, 'th ..." |
 | | One man's place by John F. Deane, Mark F. Heller Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1994 by Poolbeg Press ISBN-13: 978-1-85371-348-4, ISBN: 1-85371-348-1 |
 | | Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill New and Selected Poems by John F. Deane Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2012 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-117-9, ISBN: 1-84777-117-3 |
 | | Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont, 1855, Vol 26 Classic Reprint by John F. Deane Hardcover, Published by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-260-63180-0, ISBN: 0-260-63180-9 |
 | | OUTLAW CHRIST. by John. F. Deane Published 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-78218-366-2, ISBN: 1-78218-366-3 |
 | | Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont, 1855, Vol. 26 (Classic Reprint) by John F. Deane Softcover, Published by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5284-4248-0, ISBN: 1-5284-4248-2 |
 | | Eye of the Hare(1st Edition) by John F. Deane, Samir Amin Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2011 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-092-9, ISBN: 1-84777-092-4 "These are poems that explore the parameters of a contemporary Christian sensibility in an attemptthrough the reclamation of the language of sacrament and celebrationto re-invent a meaningful approach to contemporary problems. Moving from sonnet and stories through Biblical echoes, to the music of psalms, this compilation examines the failures of care towards the earth and society, and offers Christian spirituality as a form of solace. ..." |
 | | Poetry Ireland Review Issue 111 by John F. Deane Published 2013 by Poetry Ireland ISBN-13: 978-1-902121-49-9, ISBN: 1-902121-49-X |
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