Jonah and Me

A Poetry Book Society Recommendation

John F. Deane’ s new book follows the publication of his career-spanning New and Selected Poems, which was published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in 2023 and shows no relaxation in his descriptive and lyric powers.

Ireland’ s foremost living religious poet, the new book includes a sequence, ‘ Of Human Flesh’ , which takes Easter’ s rituals as its occasion, and dwells on its continuing purchase and meaning as the poet remembers others and walks...