Award-winning poet and writer

*** Books of the Year - The Lonely Crowd 2019 ***

“Reading Anne Casey’s poems, I want to 'embrace the world with

a desperate love’.”

​—Luka Bloom

"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 more of 'In memoriam II: The draper'

​​​​"Read this for its beautiful, heartrending poetry about emigration

and bereavement."

—Martin Doyle, The Irish Times​​