John F. Deane
April 2012

John F. Deane is a renowned Irish poet, writer, and translator.

Deane published several collections of poetry and some fiction. He founded Poetry Ireland - the National Poetry Society - and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. Deane won the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature and poetry prizes from Italy and Romania. He was elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry in 1996.  Shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, he won residencies in Bavaria, Monaco and Paris.

Selected works:

• The Instruments of Art, Carcanet 2005
• In Dogged Loyalty, Columba 2006
• The Heather Fields and Other Stories, Blackstaff Press 2007

Deane's forthcoming poetry collection is A Little Book of Hours, Carcanet. He is a member of Aosdána, the body established by the Arts Council to honour artists “whose work had made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland”. In 2007, the French Government honoured him by making him Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.