Give Dust a Tongue: A Faith & Poetry Memoir

A memoir that views the spiritual developments of the internationally acclaimed Irish poet, from the strict Roman Catholicism of his upbringing on Achill Island, through years spent in a Seminary, to marriage, personal tragedy, and the establishment of Poetry Ireland, to his present faith in Christ as the center of hope and evolution. The book uses many of Deane’s best and best-loved poems to help chart this development