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John F. Deane was born on Achill Island off the west coast of Ireland. He is founder of Poetry Ireland, Ireland’s national poetry society, and its journal The Poetry Ireland Review. He is a member of Aosdána, the Irish arts academy. He has published many collections of his poetry in Ireland and in the UK and been translated into several languages. He has been the Burns Scholar in Boston College in 2008, distinguished Visiting Scholar in Suffolk University, Boston, in 2012. The French government has made him “Chevalier en l’ordre des arts et des lettres”. A collection of poems, Dear Pilgrims appeared from Carcanet Press, UK., in 2018 and a collection of poems set on Achill Island with paintings by John Behan, Achill: The Island published by Currach Press also appeared in 2018. In 2016, Deane was the Teilhard de Chardin Fellow in Catholic Studies in Loyola University, Chicago and taught a course in poetry. In 2019 he was visiting poet in Notre Dame University in Indiana. In 2021 Carcanet published his new collection of poems, Naming of the Bones. A Selected Poems, translated into Polish, was published by Znak publishers in Krakow, Poland. Irish Pages Press published a collaborative book of poems and dialogue with the poet James Harpur, called Darkness Between Stars in October, 2022. In May of 2023, Veritas Dublin published his poetry and faith memoir, Song of the Goldfinch. In October of 2023 Carcanet published Selected and New Poems, a generous choice of poems from earlier years, together with a substantial sequence of new work. In 2025 Guillemot Press published the third “bookling”, The Red Gate. Also in 2025, a selected poems in Norwegian Translation was published in Oslo, translated by Jostein Seboe. A new collection of poems, Jonah and Me, is due from Carcanet in December of 2025 and has become a recommendation of the Poetry Book Society in London.
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Moya Nolan
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