{"product_id":"jonah-and-me","title":"Jonah and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Poetry Book Society Recommendation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn F. Deane’s new book follows the publication of his career-spanning \u003cem\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in 2023 and shows no relaxation in his descriptive and lyric powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIreland’s foremost living religious poet, the new book includes a sequence, ‘Of Human Flesh’, which takes Easter’s rituals as its occasion, and dwells on its continuing purchase and meaning as the poet remembers others and walks a landscape where, sometimes, as he puts it, the spiritual and material worlds come together:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘all here fits\u003cbr\u003e\ntogether, oxbow and pillow-stone, holon and fractal,\u003cbr\u003e\nstunning, admonishing, this morphogenic field.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems bear witness to a number of different Irelands, and one memorable sequence tracks a family heirloom, a carriage clock, through three different marriages in 1897, 1906 and 1940. Alive to what is comical and even enchanting, his steadfast faith is as well captured in his grip on a childhood memory of Jonah, his ‘Bunnacurry mule, big and raw, \/ stubborn in hardship and unwilling’, with whom he is partnered in what the poem calls a ‘slow, uncomely, cosmic dance’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55476872249688,"sku":"9781800175242","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781800175242.jpg?v=1777985143","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/jonah-and-me","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}