The poems in Naming of the Bones touch on Christian values and work
towards a significant faith, at the same time focusing on the
wonders of an evolving cosmos. The poems delight in the things of
the earth, suggesting a secular Christianity. They hope justice
will overcome human greed and violence, while they assent to the
seasons developing of our landscapes and the beauty and dangers of
our place in creation. The sequence 'Like the Dewfall' works with
the music of the French composer Olivier Messiaen and his double
piano masterpiece, 'Visions de l'Amen', a suite of seven pieces for
two pianos, composed in 1943 during the Nazi Occupation of Paris.
Other poems connect the 'landscape, sea-scape and sky-scape' of the
Achill of Deane's formative years to the 'wonders of the Christian
faith' with a sacramental awareness that is a striking feature of
many of the poems. Fiona Sampson wrote in the Financial Times, 'The
poetry here is always beautiful, and always high stakes because
infused with spirituality.' And the theologian Cyril O'Regan
comments, 'if Deane is not a prophetic poet by most modern
standards - that is, we have to strain to hear denunciation -
nonetheless, precisely as a poet he understands himself to be a
witness: Poetry tells the truth that we would not tell, lifts the
veil on the human condition that we would prefer not to be lifted.'
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