A Little Book of Hours

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 with a simple island, each subsequent piece features great figures, such as 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 founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. In 1996 he was elected Secretary General of the European Academy of Poetry. He won the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 1998.

Acolyte	p. 9
The Jesus Bones
To Market, to Market	p. 13
Call Me Beautiful	p. 14
Water-Music	p. 15
Slievemore: The Abandoned Village	p. 16
Towards a Conversion	p. 18
Seawards	p. 19
Sailors by-the-Wind	p. 20
Ass and Car	p. 21
A Flood and Many Waters	p. 22
Harbour: Achill Island	p. 23
Allegri	p. 24
Threads	p. 25
The Fall	p. 26
Messages to the Wind	p. 27
A Book of Kings	p. 28
The Downpour	p. 36
The Luxembourg Poem	p. 37
Cemetery Sunday	p. 39
Mapping the Sky	p. 40
Mappa Mundi	p. 41
The Jesus Bones	p. 43
The Jesus Body, the Jesus Bones
Invocation	p. 47
A Little Book of Hours	p. 48
Cold Comforting	p. 69
Tracks	p. 70
The Poem of the Goldfinch	p. 71
Lucy in the Sky	p. 72
Kane's Lane	p. 73
Stranger	p. 74
September 8th, 2004	p. 76
Miriam	p. 77
Madonna and Child	p. 78
The Jesus Body, the Jesus Bones	p. 91
The Jesus Body
Triduum	p. 95
The Jesus Body	p. 95
The Final Prayer	p. 99
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