Beginning is a collection of poems drawn from the ordinary and significant experiences that have touched lives lived in the changing nature of this present century.

It is a personal journey of faith, through times of celebration and difficulty, that finds hope in prayer and daily encounters.

There is a fragile space
between Heaven and Earth…

a present, wonderful and brief,
to be fully human.

from ‘A Fragile Space’

“The delicate veil between experience and reflection gently graces the ‘fragile space’ of lived realities.

In Beginning Deirdre Devine pulls back the veil to the inner spiritual journey to which all of us are called.

…Those who seek to glance beyond the veil will find in her work, a poetry that sings the song of truth to those who listen for the silent music of meaning along life’s way.” 

Sr Perpetua Mc Nulty RSM

Author Information

Deirdre Devine was born in Culdaff, Inishowen, Co Donegal. Having studied art, she taught in Derry for several years and lives near the city.

A member of the writing group in Limavady since it began in 2002, Deirdre has contributed poetry to their anthologies, including Emerging, the Limavady Writers’ anthology, 2018.

Her poetry has also been included in four of the Poetry in Motion, Community Arts Partnership anthologies and in On the Grass when I Arrive, An Anthology of New Writing from Northern Ireland on Place, Home, and Belonging, edited by Leon Litvack, 2016. 

In Applause, her first collection of poetry, was published in 2014. Deirdre is the author of Pictures in the Window – an illustrated reflection on the life of the Culdaff artist Willie Doran.

Beginning is her second collection of poetry.