John F. Deane

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  • Ireland
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Biography

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Bibliography

Give Dust a Tongue
Semibreve
Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New & Selected
The Eye of the Hare
The Works of Love
When No Storms Come
Achill: the Island
From the Marrow Bone
A Little Book of Hours
The Heather Fields and other stories
In Dogged Loyalty
A Book of Kings
The Instruments of Art
Manhandling the Deity
Undertow
Toccata and Fugue
The Hero, Home
The Coffin Master and other stories
In the Name of the Wolf
Christ, with Urban Fox
Fightlines
The Distribution of Bodies/Jacques Rancourt
Free Range
One Man's Place
Walking on Water
For the Living and the Dead
The Stylized City: Selected and New Poetry
Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt: The Cold Heaven
Thistledown: Poems for UNICEF
Road with Cypress and Star
The Youth of Don Quixote/Marin Sorescu
The Wild Marketplace/Tomas Transtromer
Winter in Meath
High Sacrifice
Stalking After Time

Awards

2007
Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
2003
T. S. Eliot Prize
2001
Marten Toonder Award for Literature
2000
Grand International Prize for Poetry (Romania)
1998
O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry

Author statement

I write poetry and fiction to help me recover what I have lost, through personal experience, and through doubt and hesitations because of contemporary philosophies and events, in the area of faith; my work is to re-locate, to re-name and to re-evaluate the Christian experience and values, not tied to any individual church or churches. I write to set the Christ-life echoing.

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