Jonah and Me by John F. Deane
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Winter 2025 Jericho Brown — Chris McCabe

— Chris McCabe

Near-Life Experience offers a world where understanding is subverted by the day’s distractions and the unexpected shapes of the imagination

for instance – these versions shadow the originals

I relished reading every tiny morsel of it' Shirley Manson

Jonah and Me by John F. Deane<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Winter 2025</b> Jericho Brown — Chris McCabePublished 11th December 2025 John F. Deanes new book follows the publication of his career spanning New and Selected Poems, which was published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in 2023 and shows no relaxation in his descriptive and lyric powers. Irelands foremost living religious poet, the new book includes a sequence, Of Human Flesh, which takes Easters rituals as its occasion, and dwells on its continuing purchase and meaning as the poet