Give Dust a Tongue: A Faith & Poetry Memoir - Hardcover

A memoir that views the spiritual developments of the internationally acclaimed Irish poet, from the strict Roman Catholicism of his upbringing on Achill Island, through years spent in a Seminary, to marriage, personal tragedy, and the establishment of Poetry Ireland, to his present faith in Christ as the center of hope and evolution. The book uses many of Deane's best and best-loved poems to help chart this development

John F. Deane was born on Achill Island 1943; founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review, 1979; published several collections of poetry and some fiction; won the O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, Golden Key Award from Serbia, Laudomia Bonanni Prize from L Aquila, Italy. Shortlisted for both the T.S.Eliot prize and The Irish Times Poetry Now Award, won residencies in Bavaria, Monaco and Paris. He is a member of Aosdána . His recent poetry collections: Eye of the Hare came from Carcanet 2011. Snow falling on Chestnut Hill: New & Selected Poems was published by Carcanet in October 2012. His latest fiction is a novel, Where No Storms Come, published by Blackstaff in 2010. A new collection of poems, Semibreve, will be published by Carcanet in May 2015.