Selected and new poems / John F. Deane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deane, John F., 1943- author.

Contributor:

Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), publisher.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry, English.

Faith--Poetry.

Faith.

English poetry--Irish authors--20th century.

English poetry.

English poetry--Irish authors--21st century.

Irish poetry--21st century.

Irish poetry.

English poetry--Irish authors.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Religious poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

266 pages ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Exeter, Devon : SRP Ltd

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2023.

Summary:

"John F. Deane opted for a Selected and New rather than the tombstone of a Collected to mark his eightieth year before heaven. He is still a living force, in physical and spiritual space: a Selected Poems (Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill, 2012) already exists. With substantial new work to share, it seemed timely to produce an essential volume, with compelling new work added to underline his witness. Deane's poems explore the beauty of the island where he was born, on the west coast of Ireland, and the wonders of natural creation everywhere. His imagination is most at home in rural Ireland, where the long centuries of scholarship and faith have retained their focus and shape. Music is present everywhere in his selection, in the poems' lyricism and in their reference to composers and compositions, particularly Beethoven and Olivier Messiaen. The poems move from a childhood encounter with a basking shark off his Achill Island home, to an elderly gentleman climbing the stairs to bed. A love of the landscape of his home island is developed in poems that combine an awareness of beauty and fragility with the spiritual significance the physical world offers those who are open to it. A 'rewilding' of old certainties of faith and worship, a movement through the gifts of spirit and Spirit occur. A new sequence, 'For the Times and Seasons', completes this generous celebration of a long life spent, and still spending, in poetry and faith"-- Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

"The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781800173590

1800173598

OCLC:

1406400478