John F. Deane

Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill (eBook, ePUB)

New and Selected Poems

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Produktbeschreibung

John F. Deane is a vital and generous presence in Irish poetry. New and Selected Poems gathers work from Deane’s five previous Carcanet collections, alongside a new sequence, Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill. Written with an inquiring intelligence, these poems of a dozen years meditate on the relevance of Christian spirituality to our troubled times. Each of the twelve poems in the title sequence presents a movement of the spirit, from the author’s childhood in the west of Ireland, through the death of a wife, to the birth of a grandchild. Arranged in the manner of an orchestral symphony, each section takes its cue from a different piece of music, from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to Mozart’s 'Laudate Dominum’. The sequence traces, phase by phase, the development of a Christian life. Faith, in its broadest sense, is inflected by imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Presse LTD
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847777140
• Artikelnr.: 38437332

Autorenporträt

John F. Deane is the founder of Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review. He is the author of Eye of the Hare, Fugue: New and Selected Poems , and Toccata and the recipient of the O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry. In 1996, he was elected Secretary General of the European Academy of Poetry.