Little Book of Hours
Little Book of Hours
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Summary
Beginning with an account of the simplest-seeming island people and their troubled though productive lives, this work continues with a series of poems about King David, great poet and warrior, which consider the ineffectuality of war and the place of poetry in building towards a just society.
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Little Book of Hours by John F Deane
Taking its starting point from John Donne s prose No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main John Deane takes a period of time and trawls through it for meaning and purpose. Beginning witha simpleisland, each subsequent piece features great figures, suchas King David, and examines the futility of war and the place of poetry in fighting for a more just society. The collection s centerpiece, A Little Book of Hours, journeys through Europe in search of spiritual truth. This collection is a meditation on how the Christian myth is seen to penetrate all of humanity and nature.
John F. Deane was born on Achill Island in 1943. He founded Poetry Ireland and Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. Author of many books of poetry, his work has been translated into French, Bulgarian, Romanian, Italian and Swedish. In 1996 he was elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry, and he won the O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 1998. Carcanet publish his poetry. His 2003 collection Manhandling the Deity was shortlisted for the T.S.Eliot Prize.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781857549706 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857549708 |
| Title | Little Book of Hours |
| Author | John F Deane |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |