John F. Deane

John F. Deane (born 1943 on Achill Island) is an Irish poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979.

Career
Deane published several collections of poetry and some fiction. He won the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature and poetry prizes from Italy and Romania. Deane was elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry in 1996. Shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, he won residencies in Bavaria, Monaco and Paris. His latest poetry collection The Instruments of Art, Carcanet 2005; In Dogged Loyalty, essays on religious poetry, Columba 2006; latest fiction The Heather Fields and Other Stories, Blackstaff Press 2007. Deane's forthcoming poetry collection is A Little Book of Hours, Carcanet. He is a member of Aosdána, the body established by the Arts Council to honour artists “whose work had made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland”. In 2007, the French Government honoured him by making him Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Poetry

 * Christ, with Urban Fox, Daedalus Press, 1997
 * Manhandling the Deity, Carcanet, 2003.
 * Tocatta and Fugue: New and Selected Poems, Carcanet
 * The Instruments of Art, Carcanet
 * A Little Book of Hours, Carcanet, 2008.
 * Eye of the Hare, Carcanet, 2011.

Island (illustrated by Barbara Deane). Dublin: St Bueno, 1978.
 * Stalking After Time. Dublin: Profile, 1977.
 * High Sacrifice. Dublin: Dolmen, 1981.
 * Voices. Edinburgh: 1983.
 * Winter in Meath. 1985
 * Road, with Cypress and Star (engravings by John Behan). 1988.
 * Far Country. Dublin: [[Dedalus Press|Dedalus ([Icarus Editions, No. 1), 1992.
 * The Stylized City: New and selected poems. 1991.
 * Island: One Man’s Place. Dublin: Poolbeg Press, 1994.
 * Christ, with Urban Fox. Dublin: Dedalus / NY: White Pine Press, 1997.

Toccata and Fugue: New and Selected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2000), 95pp.; The Hero, Home (Dublin: Dedalus 2001), 28pp.; Manhandling the Deity (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2003), 128pp.; trans., Philippe Jones, The Breath of Words (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2003), 74pp.; The Instrument of Art (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2005), 118pp. John F. Deane, Eye of the Hare (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2011), 98pp. [ top ] Short Fiction Walking on Water (Dublin: Dedalus 1994); Free Range (Dublin: Wolfhound 1994), 192pp. [incl. “The Widow, Ellie Claine”; “Between Islands”; “The Wet Finger”; “The Juniper Files“], 192pp.; The Coffin Master and Other Stories (Belfast: Blackstaff 2000), 187pp.; The Heather Field and Other Stories (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2007), 256pp. [ top ] Novels One Man’s Place (Poolbeg 1994), 229pp.; Flightlines (Poolbeg Press 1995), 303pp.; In the Name of the Wolf (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1999), 176pp.; Undertow (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2002), 400pp. Miscellaneous ed ., Six American Poets (Dedalus 1989); ed., Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt, The Cold Heaven (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1990) [infra]; ed., The Dedalus Irish Poets (Dublin: Dedalus Press 1992) [infra]. [ed.,] From the Marrowbone (Dublin: Columba Press 2008), 256pp.

Novels

 * In the Name of the Wolf,Blackstaff Press, 1999
 * Undertow, Blackstaff Press, 2002

Short stories

 * The Coffin Master, Blackstaff Press, 2002


 * "The Heather Fields and Other Stories", Blackstaff Press, 2007