John F. Deane

John F. Deane (born 1943 on Achill Island) is an Irish poet and novelist.[1] He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979.[2][3]

John F. Deane at Feile na Greine, Tech Amergin, Waterville. 2012

Career

Deane published several collections of poetry and some fiction.[4] He won the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature and poetry prizes from Italy and Romania. Deane was elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry in 1996. Shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, he won residencies in Bavaria, Monaco and Paris. He is a member of Aosdána, the body established by the Arts Council to honour artists “whose work had made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland”. In 2007, the French Government honoured him by making him Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

List of poems

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
The nest 2014 Deane, John F. (Jun–Jul 2014). "The nest". The London Magazine: 33. 

Novels

Short stories

References

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