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Joel Deane
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Catch and Kill
Making Progress
Judas Boys
Year of the Wasp
The Norseman's Song
Magisterium
£10 Poems
Subterranean Radio Songs
Another
Writing
Shop
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From the archive: ‘Political language can illuminate the darkness’
Politics, Speech, Archive Joel Deane 22/9/25 Politics, Speech, Archive Joel Deane 22/9/25

From the archive: ‘Political language can illuminate the darkness’

The speech I wrote (and delivered) to explain why I became a political speechwriter — and how I work.

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A decade in the wilderness
Fiction Joel Deane 20/12/23 Fiction Joel Deane 20/12/23

A decade in the wilderness

The loneliness of long-distance writing.

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Teaching speechwriting
Politics Joel Deane 23/7/22 Politics Joel Deane 23/7/22

Teaching speechwriting

On sophistry.

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