Books by John F. Deane

John F. Deane was born on Achill Island in 1943. He founded Poetry Ireland - the National Poetry Society - and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. He is the author of many collections of poetry and some fiction, including from Carcanet Toccata and Fugue: New and Selected Poems (2000) and Manhandling the Deity (2003, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize). His poetry has been published in French, Bulgarian, Romanian, Italian and Swedish translation. In 1996 he was elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry. The recipient of the O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 1998, his poems in Italian, translated by Roberto Cogo, won the 2002 Premio Internazionale di Poesia Citta di Marineo for the best foreign poetry of the year.