For the Living & the Dead

Literature & Fiction

Deane, John F.

Tranströmer, Tomas

Poetry

Dufour Editions

On the island of Achill, off the west coast of Ireland, Nora and Captain O'Higgins are troubled by their daughter's unexplained illness. Patty O'Higgins is a young woman suffering from lupus, a chronic tuberculosis of the blood disease. It's surrounded by ancient prejudice and fear because of one of its occasional side effects, a wolf-like distortion of the face. Mirroring her illness are strange events in her home community. It is during WWII; a German plane drops unused bombs on the mountain, disturbing the natural grounds, and from then on a strange presence, destructive and threatening, haunts the island and seems to concentrate its destructive forces around the life of the young girl. In the Name of the Wolf is a powerful story about human suffering and its ingrained nature in us, how we cope with it and how we survive. ""Deane neatly captures both the claustrophobic and comforting essences of village life, and his compact, supple prose has a poetic resonance.""-Publishers Weekly

In the Name of the Wolf

British & Irish

Blackstaff Pr

Where No Storms Come follows the lives of Patrick Brennan and Dorothy Lohan. Destined for the religious life - the convent for Dorothy; the priesthood for Patrick - and from different social backgrounds, they form an unlikely and edgy friendship. The novel follows the parallel trajectories of their lives through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood, charting their struggles with the spiritual paths they have chosen until they at last choose a life together. A powerful, beautiful and thought-provoking novel about faith and doubt and individual freedom.

Where no Storms Come

Deane, John

Contemporary

Blackstaff Press

Road, with Cypress and Star

Road, with cypress and star

Dedalus Press

The stylized city: New and selected poems

Dedalus

A memoir that views the spiritual developments of the internationally acclaimed Irish poet, from the strict Roman Catholicism of his upbringing on Achill Island, through years spent in a Seminary, to marriage, personal tragedy, and the establishment of Poetry Ireland, to his present faith in Christ as the center of hope and evolution. The book uses many of Deane's best and best-loved poems to help chart this development

Give Dust a Tongue

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Columba Books

In every age and generation, the words and presence of Jesus Christ have given people belief, hope and purpose to develop their full potential. However at the same time, faith in Jesus Christ has often been outlawed as it challenges the overwhelming secular impetus of financial achievements, domination and power over others. To answer this unfortunate occurrence, poets throughout the years have taken up the message and person of Jesus. Often, in the side-lining or the outlawing of Christ, the poets, too, have been side-lined. Outlawed.This book, developed from a series of talks and lectures at Loyola University, Chicago, follows the poets in their search for the true Christ, from the 8th century Dream of the Rood where Christ was a warrior hero climbing onto the Cross to defeat the rule of Satan, to poets like John Donne, George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins, up to our own day, with modern Irish poets like Patrick Kavanagh, Pádraig J. Daly and James Harpur. The book presents a stimulating and intriguing anthology of poems that bring Christ to life in our own uncertain and challenging times.

The Outlaw Christ: The Response, in Poetry, to the question: Who Do you say that I am?

Religion & Spirituality

This special publication presents an in-depth awareness of the island of Achill, its heritage, its spirit, its physical wonder and its magical light and seas. The book brings together two acknowledged masters in their individual arts,poetry and painting, and is a tribute to the island close to their hearts, where every grain of sand whispers a story. "A beautifully elegant volume from beginning to end, Achill: The Island is unreservedly recommended."--MWBR

Achill: The Island

Arts & Photography

Painting

Currach Books

<div>With 'Crocus: a brief history', John F. Deane sets his Dear Pilgrims in motion, a series of brief histories of time, a time that is rich in incident and in redemption. In a decisively secular age, Deane's is a poetry of Christian belief. It explores renewal, alive with and to the kinds of witness he has learned from George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins and R.S. Thomas. His 'I', like theirs, makes space for a reluctant 'us'. Dear Pilgrims includes actual pilgrimages. The poet moves through England (East Anglia in particular), Israel and Palestine, disclosing a 'new testament' that revisions the Christian faith through the eyes of an unknown female disciple of Christ. He vividly adapts the Middle English poem Pearl and realises it for our time. He is also a master of the sonnet as an instrument of love, doubt and faith. The poet's voice, perhaps because of the timeless wisdom it carries, is vital and contemporary. It is no surprise that the founder of Poetry Ireland and Dedalus Press is a poet of wide reading and vision. The clarity of his verse and purpose makes his voice unique. Rowan Williams celebrates his 'Music, a stony, damp and deeply alive landscape (both Ireland and the Holy Land), a passionate and searching engagement with God'.</div>

Dear Pilgrims

Carcanet Press Ltd.

Selected and New Poems

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