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Anne Casey Anne Casey i(13906995 works by)
Born: Established:
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Ireland,
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
Heritage: Irish
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1 Examination Anne Casey i "In meticulous script,", Anne Casey , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Other Terrain , February no. 11 2023;
1 Scáth (Shadow) Anne Casey , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Rabbit , 37 2023; (p. 193-209)
1 Autumn Shades Anne Casey , 2022 prose
— Appears in: Grieve : Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss Volume 10 2022; (p. 108)
1 1 y separately published work icon Some Days The Bird Heather Bourbeau , Anne Casey , Rockville : Beltway Editions , 2022 26445871 2022 selected work poetry

'Throughout 2021, as COVID and climate change battled for supremacy in the hearts and minds of the world, American poet Heather Bourbeau and Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey engaged in a poetry conversation back and forth across the globe, alternating each week, to create 52 poems over 52 weeks. With poems anchored in their gardens, they buoyed each other through lockdowns and exile from family, through devastating floods, fires, wild winds and superstorms. Some Days The Bird, a collection of internationally recognized and award-winning poems, is the result of their weekly communiqués from different hemispheres (and opposing seasons) in verse.'(Publication summary) 

1 Quieting i "Incarnate devils—", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 Judgment i "He struck her and gave her", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 Rod i "Young as this child is—", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 Resolution i "It shall be lawful", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 Legacy i "If the children", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 Bill of Lading i "Forty thousand pounds worth", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 Live Exports to Sydney i "One hundred and seven days", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 A Matter of Commerce i "The cry of distress has rapidly", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 Inception i "Our great difficulty", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
1 Othering, a Cento Anne Casey , 2022 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;
Epigraph: ‘a machine of wise and deliberate contrivance as well fitted for the oppression,
impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human
nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.’

—Irish Statesman, Edmund Burke in a letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe in 1792,
describing the Penal Laws introduced by the British government to control
the native Irish population during colonisation.
1 Archives as 'Thin Places' Anne Casey , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 12 no. 2 2022;

'Drawing on the Irish notion of a ‘thin place’ (where the veil between us and the spirit world is so thin that we can sense those on the other side), this paper outlines an approach to archival research and creative practice which seeks to reawaken and give voice to the ghosts of some of Australia’s earliest refugees. This work uncovers new connections between the Great Irish Famine, a humanitarian crisis which halved Ireland’s population and the cyclical incarceration and abuse of young women in New South Wales in the 1860s and 1870s—to highlight a small but significant, yet largely unwritten, chapter in Irish-Australian history. Employing poetics of resistance incorporating elements of these young women’s outlawed native Irish language and culture, this work seeks to decolonise their memories and restore voice to those who suffered the brutal consequences of colonisation in both their native and adopted countries.' (Publication abstract)

1 Encomium Boronia Granitica i "You purple-tongue parched", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Science Write Now , March no. 6 2022;
1 The Federal Government Has Extended the International Border Ban until June i "A new coolness has crept", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 3 2022; (p. 105)
1 Stations of the Cross i "Thank Christ as you fly", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Guide to Sydney Crime 2022;
1 On the Eve of All Hallow’s Eve i "We sit together in a biting wind", Anne Casey , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , February no. 104 2022;
1 All the Beautiful Outcasts Anne Casey , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry for the Planet : An Anthology of Imagined Futures 2021;
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