{"product_id":"jonah-and-me-john-f-deane-9781800175242","title":"Jonah and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Poetry Book Society Recommendation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn F. Deane's new book follows the publication of his career-spanning \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in 2023 and shows no relaxation in his descriptive and lyric powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIreland'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 a landscape where, sometimes, as he puts it, the spiritual and material worlds come together: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e' all here fits\u003cbr\u003etogether, oxbow and pillow-stone, holon and fractal, \u003cbr\u003estunning, admonishing, this morphogenic field.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems bear witness to a number of different Irelands, and one memorable sequence tracks a family heirloom, a carriage clock, through three different marriages in 1897, 1906 and 1940. Alive to what is comical and even enchanting, his steadfast faith is as well captured in his grip on a childhood memory of Jonah, his ' Bunnacurry mule, big and raw, \/ stubborn in hardship and unwilling', with whom he is partnered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John F. Deane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800175248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800175242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"John F. Deane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48014411497727,"sku":"9781800175242","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e695168-3bca-4d0a-bc24-f817cbb61559.jpg?v=1767748249","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jonah-and-me-john-f-deane-9781800175242","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}