From the Marrow-Bone: The Religion of Poetry: The Poetry of Religion (Paperback)

Part One of this book consists of essays by the author on various dimensions of religion and poetry, and Part Two consists of essays on the work of a range of poets from Robert Southwell and John Milton to Denise Levertov and Gerard Smith. John F. Deane was born in Achill Island, Co Mayo, in 1943. He is the founder of Poetry Ireland, the National Poetry Society, and of its journal The Poetry Ireland Review. He has won many Irish and international awards for his poetry and in 1996 was elected Secretary General of the European Academy of Poetry.