Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill by John F Deane

Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill by John F Deane

John F. Deane is a vital and generous presence in Irish poetry. "New and Selected Poems" gathers work from Deane's five previous "Carcanet" collections, alongside a new sequence, "Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill". Written with an inquiring intelligence, these poems of a dozen years meditate on the relevance of Christian spirituality to our troubled times. Each of the twelve poems in the title sequence presents a movement of the spirit, from the author's childhood in the west of Ireland, through the death of a wife, to the birth of a grandchild. Arranged in the manner of an orchestral symphony, each section takes its cue from a different piece of music, from Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" to Mozart's "Laudate Dominum". The sequence traces, phase by phase, the development of a Christian life. Faith, in its broadest sense, is inflected by imagination.

John F. Deane is the founder of Poetry Ireland, the National Poetry Society, and its journal The Poetry Ireland Review. He is the general secretary of the European Academy of Poets and the author of Toccata and Fugue: New and Selected Poems.

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ISBN 13	9781847771179
ISBN 10	1847771173
Title	Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill
Author	John F Deane
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	2012-10-25
Number of pages	156
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