John F. Deane was born on Achill Island off the west coast of Ireland. He is founder of Poetry Ireland, Ireland’s national poetry society, and its journal Poetry Ireland Review.
John F. Deane was born on Achill Island off the west coast of Ireland. He is founder of Poetry Ireland, Ireland’s national poetry society, and its journal Poetry Ireland Review. He has published many collections in Ireland and in the UK and been translated into several languages. He was the Burns Scholar in Boston College in 2008, distinguished Visiting Scholar in Suffolk University, Boston, in 2012.
A collection of poems, Dear Pilgrims appeared from Carcanet Press, UK., in 2018 and a collection of poems set on Achill Island with paintings by John Behan, Achill: The Island published by Currach Press also appeared in 2018. In 2016 Deane was the Teilhard de Chardin Fellow in Catholic Studies in Loyola University, Chicago and taught a course in poetry. In 2019 he was visiting poet in Notre Dame University in Indiana. In 2021 Carcanet published his new collection of poems, Naming of the Bones. Irish Pages Press published a collaborative book of poems and dialogue with the poet James Harpur, called Darkness Between Stars in October, 2022.
