Darkness Between Stars by John F. Deane & James Harpur Rebecca Perry and features the first poet

and features the first poet from Latin America

illuminating document of a time of immense societal flux and upheaval by one of our finest poets and most insightful cultural commentators

All of Sweeney’s verve and spiky humour are present in these last poems

John Seed has set out to recover the lost and silent world of Durham pitmen – in the company of Walter Benjamin

landscapes and animals become charged with tension as in ‘Heron/Snow’ where the bird carries “worlds in the cipher of your feathers

Darkness Between Stars by John F. Deane & James Harpur Rebecca Perry and features the first poetJohn F. Deane and James Harpur have devoted their lives to writing about the mysteries of existence and the divine. This selection of their poems displays how each poet has probed and described his journey in search of ultimate truth. In setting the poets side by side, this volume also highlights the two main faith traditions of the West: Deane with his Roman Catholic background, rooted in the landscape of Mayo; and Harpur with his Protestant (Church