Dear Pilgrims by John F Deane Rebecca Watts from ‘Christmas Mother’ by Pascale

from ‘Christmas Mother’ by Pascale Petit

summon up memory and conjure it into a firework display of metaphoric brilliance

He writes in the sincere

Nia Davies

nightstands

Dear Pilgrims by John F Deane Rebecca Watts from ‘Christmas Mother’ by PascaleJohn F. Deane's poetry of Christian belief in a decisively secular age explores how redemption and renewal might emerge. He writes in the sincere, troubled, wide awake tradition of Gerard Manley Hopkins and R. S. Thomas. Like theirs, his concerns are contemporary, his 'I' speaks for a reluctant 'us'. Dear Pilgrims describes actual pilgrimages as the poet moves through England (East Anglia in particular), Israel and Palestine, disclosing a 'new