Internationally award-winning poet and writer
by Anne Casey
(SALMON POETRY 2025)
“MAKING 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.”
— Professor Eamonn Wall, Poet, Academic,
Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies,
University of Missouri-St Louis
SOME DAYS THE BIRD
By Heather Bourbeau and Anne Casey
(BELTWAY EDITIONS 2022)
“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
***NYC BIG BOOK AWARDS DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE***
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WALKING HOME
(RECENT WORK PRESS 2021)
***INTERNATIONAL RUBERY BOOK AWARD 2022 SHORTLIST***
***EYELANDS INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2022 FINALIST***
***SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS NSW BOOK AWARDS 2022 SHORTLIST***
***BEST DRESSED - SUNDRESS ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS 2022***
***BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2021 - ANIKO MAGAZINE***
(SALMON POETRY 2021)
***HIGHLY COMMENDED - SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS NSW BOOK AWARDS 2022***
***BEST DRESSED - SUNDRESS ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS 2022***
“A WONDERFUL
AND STAGGERING COLLECTION
OF POETRY.”
— JC Reilly, Atlanta Review
***BOOKS OF THE YEAR
- THE LONELY CROWD 2019***
*** BEST DRESSED
— SUNDRESS ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS
2020***
“BEAUTIFUL, HEARTRENDING POETRY
ABOUT EMIGRATION
& BEREAVEMENT.”
— Martin Doyle, The Irish Times
“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