{"product_id":"9781800175242","title":"Jonah and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Deane, John F. \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 11\/12\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 114 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781800175242,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Poetry Book Society RecommendationJohn F. Deane’s new book follows the publication of his career-spanning New and Selected Poems, 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:‘all here fitstogether, oxbow and pillow-stone, holon and fractal,stunning, admonishing, this morphogenic field.’The 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 in what the poem calls a ‘slow, uncomely, cosmic dance’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56606337401205,"sku":"9781800175242","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781800175242","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}