Manhandling the Deity

John F. Deane was born on Achill Island off the west coast of Ireland. He is founder of Poetry Ireland, Ireland's national poetry society, and its journal The Poetry Ireland Review. He is also founder and first editor of The Dedalus Press. He has published many collections of poetry, including Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New Selected poems, show more 2012; Semibreve, 2015, Give Dust a Tongue, 2015 ana Achill: The Island, 2018. In 2008 he was visiting fellow in poetry at Boston College. In 2016 Deane was the Teilhard de Chardin Fellow in Catholic Studies at Loyola University, Chicago and in 2019 he was visiting poet at Notre Dame University in Indiana. John F. Deane is a member of Aosdana, and his latest poetry collection is Dear Pilgrims, 2018. show less