News and Poems



  • February 2010: John F. Deane has a large selection of his poetry in an
    anthology from Wake Forest University Press in America: (visit the site at
    www.wfu.edu/wfupress) The book contains a generous selection of new
    and published poems, as well as work by Sean Lysaght, Moya Cannon,
    Thomas McCarthy and Maire Mhac an Tsaoi. The anthology is called,
    simply, Irish Poetry

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  • April 2007: John F. Deane is created a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres in Dublin by the
    French Ambassador M. Grasset.
with French Ambassador Grasset
In Sibiu, Romania, June 2007
With Thomas Kinsella and Eavan Boland, Gate
Theatre, Sunday 17 June, 2007
With Ursula, left, and Chiara de Luca, in Bologna
Listen to Bono of U2 reading a
poem by John F. Deane; it was
broadcast on Chicago Radio some
time ago and is now widespread
but only as a bootleg audio! Enjoy!