Description for Semibreve
Paperback. The poems in this new collection combine a lyrical 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. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186. 8vo.Good copy
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'.
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'.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847772695
SKU
KEX0298096
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99-1
About John F. Deane
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 ... Read more
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