Jonah and Me by John F. Deane
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Winter 2025 Sasha Dugdale the book explores the histories

the book explores the histories

This book contains the winning and commended poems from the Verve Festival 2018 City Themed Poetry Competition judged by Luke Kennard

a story of marriage to a widower

capable of being asked

birds flee

Jonah and Me by John F. Deane<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Winter 2025</b> Sasha Dugdale the book explores the historiesPublished 11th December 2025 John F. Deanes new book follows the publication of his career spanning New and Selected Poems, which was published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in 2023 and shows no relaxation in his descriptive and lyric powers. Irelands foremost living religious poet, the new book includes a sequence, Of Human Flesh, which takes Easters rituals as its occasion, and dwells on its continuing purchase and meaning as the poet