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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill
• Author: John F Deane
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156
• EAN: 9781847771179
• ISBN: 1847771173
• ID: 01224851
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 226 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 138 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. October 2012

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