Internationally award-winning poet and writer
Poetry 2018
Read and listen to poetry written by Anne Casey and published in 2018 via the links below.
Journals, magazines, newspapers ETc:
- 'The emperor's new nose' was published in The Irish Times newspaper on 23 January 2018.
- "Anne Casey sings a wry and joyful hymn to a domestic suburban weekend" - guest editors, Nathanael O'Reilly and Lachlan Brown on 'nothing happens in the burbs' published in 'SUBURBIA', Cordite #84 on 1 February 2018.
- 'final offensive' was Commended in the Bangor Forty Words Competition 2017 and published in Bangor Literary Journal, Issue 1, March 2018.
- 'where the lost things go' was published in 'A Celebration of Women’s Poetry for International Women’s Day 2018' (Poethead, March 2018).
- 'Recipe for a Giant Pickle' published in 'hope for whole: poets speak up to Adani ' anthology (Plumwood Mountain, March 2018).
- 'Death in the City' was published in the Bedford International Writing Competition Shortlist Anthology 2017.
- View a video recitation of 'where the lost things go', 'In memoriam I: Made in Miltown Malbay', 'In memoriam II: The draper', 'In memoriam IX: Spilt milk', 'Days like today', 'Astir', 'The Lady Angophora', 'Palm Cove parade', 'Between ebb and flow' and 'Come and find me' - Poetry Book Club at Girls on Key podcast, March 2018.
- 'In one hundred days' was published in Not Very Quiet Journal, Issue 2, March 2018.
- 'Dear son', 'If wallets were skirts' and 'Still I Rise' were published in'Autonomy' anthology (New Binary Press, 2018).
- 'Nowhere people', 'Homing' and 'In memoriam II: The draper' were published in the Clare Association Yearbook 2018.
- 'Thank You for Shopping With Us', a hybrid poem - a merger of journalism and poetry presented as a till receipt - was published in The Corrugated Wave, March 2018.
- 'Breaking winter's spell' was first published in The Remembered Arts Journal, April 2018 and was republished in An Áit Eile, April 2018.
- ‘Deliver us from evil’, ‘Danger in low-lying areas’ and ‘The scattering’ were published in Eureka Street, April 2018.
- 'burnt offerings', 'where the lost things go', 'Between ebb and flow', 'Metaphoric rise' and 'In memoriam II: the Draper' were published on Poethead by Christine Murray on 11 April 2018.
- 'Still I Rise' won 3rd Place in the Women’s National Book Association Poetry Competition 2018 (USA). This poem was subsequently published in 'Verity La Magazine' (see end of article to read poem) and in 'The Irish Times' (see end of article to read poem) in May 2018.
- 'Darkness' was published in Abridged 052: Contagion in May 2018.
- 'burnt offerings' was published as 'Poem of the Week' on HeadStuff arts hub on 18 May 2018.
- 'Projecting forward' was Commended in the Roscommon County Library Poetry Competition 2018 in May 2018.
- 'Cup in Hand' - a poem/literary monologue was performed on stage in Sydney as part of The Monologue Adventure in May 2018. View a video of 'The Monologue Adventure: Longings, Secrets, Triumphs' stage production ('Cup in Hand' is the finale piece).
- 'Denial' was featured on Verse Daily.
- 'heat' and 'Nang Ta-khian murmurs to me' were published in Pink Cover Zine, Issue 2 which launched at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney in May 2018.
- 'In the name of the Almighty' was published in FemAsia Magazine in May 2018. This poem was subsequently published in EMPWR by May 2018.
- 'you have to be tough to be a man' was published by EMPWR on 26 May 2018.
- 'Whisperings' won 1st Prize in the Henry Lawson Verse & Short Story Competition 2018 - Traditional Verse, and was published in the 'Henry Lawson Verse & Short Story Anthology 2018'.
- 'One fine day', 'sabre rattling', 'cockfight on the Pacific', 'stormy days' and 'Suffer the little children' were published in The Honest Ulsterman magazine in June 2018.
- 'Between ebb and flow' was featured on Poem Today on 30 July 2018.
- 'burnt offerings', 'spring tableau', 'after the commission' and 'persimmon and rose' were published in HUSK Magazine Issue #6, August 2018.
- 'where the lost things go' was featured on the Bedford Writing Bookshelf in August 2018.
- "Poetry - poems written by award-winning Irish-Australian writer, by Anne Casey" was featured in Irish Literary Times on 2 August 2018.
- 'Observance' was published in Verity La Magazine on 3 August 2018.
- 'Category four' was published in In the News' anthology (The Poetry Box August 2018). This poem, based on the poet's real-life experience of Tropical Cyclone (Hurricane) Ului in Far North Queensland in 2010, won the Edith Cowan Writer's Centre/Glen Phillips Novice Writer Award 2017.
- 'mutation' and 'Nocturne in me' were published in 'Cailleach' issue of Not4U Zine in August 2018 - all profits from this issue were donated to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.
- 'Still I Rise' was published in the Women’s National Book Association (USA) Sixth Annual Writing Contest Anthology in September 2018.
- 'where the lost things go', 'Metaphoric rise', 'Come and find me', 'wildness', 'take this cup' and 'Quiet unto the void' were published in HUSK Magazine Issue #7, September 2018.
- 'in a sunburnt country' was selected from over 1,000 entries to be longlisted for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize 2018 and was published in 'signs' anthology of longlisted and winning poems.
- "You're not from here? [*politely]" was published in The Stony Thursday Book 2018.
- 'Recipe for a Giant Pickle' was selected for performance by the Climate Guardians at the inaugural Biennale of Australian Art (BOAA) in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in October 2018 - the largest ever showcase of living Australian Artists, with sincere thanks to curator, Deborah Hart and Anne Elvey, Managing Editor of Plumwood Mountain, who first published the poem.
- ‘Between ebb and flow’, ‘a great mirror’ and ‘Projecting forward’ were published in HUSK Magazine #11, November 2018.
- 'All Souls' was awarded Highly Commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland Literary Competition and to be published in ‘Scope’ magazine in early 2019.
- 'scion' was selected for inclusion in the ‘Spirit of Nature’ poetry and art exhibition at Manly Art Gallery in Sydney on 4 November, with sincere thanks to Michele Seminara, Managing Editor of Verity La Magazine. The poem was published in the Australian Poetry Collaboration, with many thanks to Editor, Les Wicks. This poem also received Honorable Mention in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards 2018 (USA).
- 'You'll never walk alone' was published in The Same Issue 15.4 in November 2018.
- 'Salsa Brava' was published in The Same/Microwork in November 2018.
- 'Lament for Aleppo' was published in Pendle War Poetry Anthology 2018 in November 2018.
- ‘if I were to tell you’ won 1st Prize in 2018 Alice Sinclair Memorial Writing Competition - Fellowship of Australian Writers, Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia in November 2018. This poem was published in Quiddity literary journal in December 2018.
- 'Leonora is grieving' was published in Déraciné literary journal in December 2018. This poem remembers a young man from the declining Australian outback mining town of Leonora. Like so many youths in marginalised areas, he was a victim of despair, spiralling into drug/alcohol abuse and ultimately, suicide.
- 'Christmas kisses' (first published in The Irish Times in December 2016) was selected by Poetry Northern Ireland as part of their Poetry Advent Calendar in December 2018.
- 'awash', 'blue on white' and 'Long distance' were published in Enthralled Magazine, Vol 1 Issue 11 Special Edition: Blue in December 2018.
- 'heirloom' was published in Stilts Journal, Issue 3 in December 2018.
- 'All Souls' was longlisted for the Bedford International Writing Competition 2018.