Internationally award-winning poet and writer
“an important contribution to a vital conversation on hunger,
migration and displacement.”
–President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins
“a furious, graceful, and deeply moving work of literary witness.”
—Eamonn Wall
“Casey’s poised, lyrical poems offer a searing archive of the female experience that is shot through everywhere with her sensitivity to the image, line and music.”
—Sarah Holland-Batt
“Magnificent!
Every living, breathing woman
will find a piece of themselves
in Anne Casey’s poetry.”
—Patricia A. Florio, American Writers Review
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“Reading Anne Casey’s poems,
I want to
'embrace the world
with
a desperate love’.”
—Luka Bloom
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“breaks your heart with its almost elegiac approach to ecology
and the Earth.
A wonderful and staggering collection of poetry.”
—JC Reilly, Atlanta Review
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“LYRIC BALLADS FOR OUR FRAUGHT
AND TROUBLED DECADE.
A POWERFUL RECORD
OF OUR RECENT LIVES.
ESSENTIAL, RADIANT READING.”
— Gerald Dawe, Poet and Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin
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FEATURING TWO POEMS BY ANNE CASEY:
“There is a special brand of human misery so steeped in hopelessness that it leaves its mark in time and place.”
Read 'The Lock Up' feature article by Anne Casey in The Irish Times
“Until the sunshine and the hustle
Had worn it threadbare
This extra bit of baggage
In every emigrant’s case...”
“Read this for its beautiful,
heartrending poetry about
emigration
and bereavement.”
—Martin Doyle,
The Irish Times