{"product_id":"jonah-and-me-9781800175242","title":"Jonah and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John F. Deane\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Religious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Poetry Book Society Recommendation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn F. Deane's new book follows the publication of his career-spanning \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\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\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\u003cp\u003e' all here fits\u003cbr\u003etogether, oxbow and pillow-stone, holon and fractal, \u003cbr\u003estunning, admonishing, this morphogenic field.' \u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46859624382615,"sku":"9781800175242","price":1116.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781800175242.webp?v=1769949391","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/jonah-and-me-9781800175242","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}