John
F Deane
John F Deane will direct this year's Force 12 Festival in
Belmullet Co. Mayo.
John F Deane was
born on Achill Island in 1943 and currently lives in Dublin. The founder of
Poetry Ireland and of the Poetry Ireland Review, as well as of the Dedalus
Press which he continued to run until the end of 2004, since 1996 he has been
Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry. Among his many
collections are Christ, with Urban Fox (1997), Toccata and Fugue: New &
Selected Poems (2000) and Manhandling the Deity (2003), the latter two titles
from Carcanet. Among the many languages in which selections of his work has
appeared are French, Bulgarian, Italian and Swedish. In addition to his poetry
publications, Deane has also published the novels In the Name of the Wolf
(1999) and Undertow (2002) and the collection of stories The Coffin Master
(2000). His many awards include the 1998 O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry
and, in 2000, the Grand International Prize for Poetry in Romania.
Recently retired as publisher of the Dedalus
Press, John F Deane now publishes with Carcanet and with his own Waxwing
Press
