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'In this lyrical, often wry, sometimes heartbreaking and just occasionally horrifying selection of poems, internationally award-winning poet, Anne Casey invites you to step into her shoes, take a self-guided cruise through the State of Womanhood with its redacted facts and multiple travel warnings, feel the red hot sting of betrayal, and leave behind nights of secrets and dread to rise with the rage that her fine sisters gave, a scattering of blue skies and a pocketful of hope on the long walk home.'
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[Review] Portrait of a Woman Walking Home
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 11 2022;
— Review of Portrait of a Woman Walking Home 2021 selected work poetry'The prolific poet Anne Casey published two collections of poetry in 2021: Salmon Poetry’s The Light We Cannot See and Recent Work Press’s Portrait of a Woman Walking Home. The former is written from the perspective of a displaced daughter of Ireland and apprehensive mother. She fears that her children must endure the traumas that mar our society: the climate crisis, humanitarian disasters, and the Covid-19 pandemic. By contrast, Portrait of a Woman Walking Home is concerned with matters of misogyny and the experience of one woman who might be any woman or Everywoman. In the poet’s urgent message, the particular and the universal converge.' (Introduction)
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Unsettling Honesties : Anne Casey’s ‘Portrait of a Woman Walking Home’ Reviewed by Gillian Swain
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2021;
— Review of Portrait of a Woman Walking Home 2021 selected work poetry
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Unsettling Honesties : Anne Casey’s ‘Portrait of a Woman Walking Home’ Reviewed by Gillian Swain
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2021;
— Review of Portrait of a Woman Walking Home 2021 selected work poetry -
[Review] Portrait of a Woman Walking Home
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 11 2022;
— Review of Portrait of a Woman Walking Home 2021 selected work poetry'The prolific poet Anne Casey published two collections of poetry in 2021: Salmon Poetry’s The Light We Cannot See and Recent Work Press’s Portrait of a Woman Walking Home. The former is written from the perspective of a displaced daughter of Ireland and apprehensive mother. She fears that her children must endure the traumas that mar our society: the climate crisis, humanitarian disasters, and the Covid-19 pandemic. By contrast, Portrait of a Woman Walking Home is concerned with matters of misogyny and the experience of one woman who might be any woman or Everywoman. In the poet’s urgent message, the particular and the universal converge.' (Introduction)
