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Here, I thought, is where you must be,
this inland island, hospitium of trees and shrubbery,
low hills and heathland walks, blackbirds and silence; here
I will find you, God Incarnate…

from ‘A Little Book of Hours' by John F. Deane

A Little Book of Hours takes as its starting points John Donne’s ‘No man is an island’ and St Paul’s letter to the Corinthians: ‘For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ’.

In a series of linked sequences, John F. Deane explores the meanings of ‘The Jesus Body, the Jesus Bones’, how each human being shares in a coherent universe in our world broken by wars and violence. Beginning with the simplicities of island life, the book turns to the politics of greed. King David, psalmist and warmonger, stands at the centre of the book, in passages that look at humanity’s destructiveness and creativity. Taking its cue from the Psalms, the book concludes with journeys in search of truth and meaning, and a meditation on guilt and innocence. A Little Book of Hours is Deane’s deepest exploration of the relevance of Christianity to our times. His music praises the beauty of wholeness in the world and mourns what is broken.

Cover painting: Harvest Light (1991) by Tony O’Malley, reproduced by kind permission of Jane O’Malley. Cover design by StephenRaw.com.

JOHN F. DEANE was born on Achill Island in 1943. He founded Poetry Ireland – the National Poetry Society – and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1978, and is the founder of The Dedalus Press, of which he was editor from 1985 until 2006. In 2008 he was visiting scholar in ... read more

A Little Book of Hours is the most recent of these books to reach my desk, and it is by far the most ambitious and complex of those under review, so this must be in the form of a provisional report. read more

Spring 2009 A Sense of Place John Deane's remarkable collection - remarkable in its ambition to write a kind of spiritual autobiography and to explore in a secular age the meaning of religious belief - is not just shot through with a sense of the landscape, flora, fauna of his native Ireland, especially his birthplace, Achill Island, in Co. read more

Who, in the still, small hours of the 21st Century, would want to write religious poetry ? read more

Evoking the secular miracle of beauty IT'S NO surprise that the founder of Poetry Ireland and Dedalus Press should be a poet of exceptionally wide reading and vision, nor that his own work should be rich with cultural resonances. read more

A Little Book of Hours John F Deane Starting with John Donne's No man Is An Island and St Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Deane sets out to create 'space for the study of the metaphysics of humanness'. read more

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A Little Book of Hours John F. Deane RRP: GBP£ 9.95 Discount: 10% You Save: GBP£ 0.99 Price: GBP£ 8.96 Available Paperback ISBN: 978 1 857549 70 6 Categories: 21st Century, Catholic, Irish Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: October 2008 216 x 135 mm 104 pages Publisher: Carcanet Press Description Excerpt Author Reviews Here, I thought, is where you must be, this inland island, hospitium of trees and shrubbery, low hills and heathland walks, blackbirds and silence; here I will find you, God Incarnate… from ‘A Little Book of Hours' by John F. Deane A Little Book of Hours takes as its starting points John Donne’s ‘No man is an island’ and St Paul’s letter to the Corinthians: ‘For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ’. In a series of linked sequences, John F. Deane explores the meanings of ‘The Jesus Body, the Jesus Bones’, how each human being shares in a coherent universe in our world broken by wars and violence. Beginning with the simplicities of island life, the book turns to the politics of greed. King David, psalmist and warmonger, stands at the centre of the book, in passages that look at humanity’s destructiveness and creativity. Taking its cue from the Psalms, the book concludes with journeys in search of truth and meaning, and a meditation on guilt and innocence. A Little Book of Hours is Deane’s deepest exploration of the relevance of Christianity to our times. His music praises the beauty of wholeness in the world and mourns what is broken. Cover painting: Harvest Light (1991) by Tony O’Malley, reproduced by kind permission of Jane O’Malley. Cover design by StephenRaw.com. JOHN F. DEANE was born on Achill Island in 1943. He founded Poetry Ireland – the National Poetry Society – and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1978, and is the founder of The Dedalus Press, of which he was editor from 1985 until 2006. In 2008 he was visiting scholar in ... read more A Little Book of Hours is the most recent of these books to reach my desk, and it is by far the most ambitious and complex of those under review, so this must be in the form of a provisional report. read more Spring 2009 A Sense of Place John Deane's remarkable collection - remarkable in its ambition to write a kind of spiritual autobiography and to explore in a secular age the meaning of religious belief - is not just shot through with a sense of the landscape, flora, fauna of his native Ireland, especially his birthplace, Achill Island, in Co. read more Who, in the still, small hours of the 21st Century, would want to write religious poetry ? read more Evoking the secular miracle of beauty IT'S NO surprise that the founder of Poetry Ireland and Dedalus Press should be a poet of exceptionally wide reading and vision, nor that his own work should be rich with cultural resonances. read more A Little Book of Hours John F Deane Starting with John Donne's No man Is An Island and St Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Deane sets out to create 'space for the study of the metaphysics of humanness'. read more	Share this... Quick Links Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry Comma Press FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Let's Gimbal! read more Carcanet New Poetry Showcase: The Audience Writes Back read more John Gallas: A Little Andaluciad read more Carcanet Poetry Showcase: 30th April read more The Manchester Writing Competition 2013 read more Six Sixty-Six: Infinity by Gabriel Josipovici read more
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