Internationally award-winning poet and writer
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"out of emptied cups" poetry collection by Anne Casey (Salmon Poetry 2019)
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"Portrait of a Woman Walking Home" poetry book by Anne Casey (Recent Work Press 2021)
Poetry 2024
Read, watch, listen to and find poetry written by Anne Casey and published in 2024 via the links below.
Journals, magazines, newspapers ETc:
- 'Own Brand' was published in the Live Canon Anthology 2023 in January 2024.
- 'The Influencer's Prayer' was Commended in the Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2023 (announced in February 2024) and published by Coffee-House Poetry.
- 'Season of Brigid', set to music composed by David Yardley and recorded with singers from The Song Company and the Sydney Chamber Choir, was released on Spotify and Apple Music in March 2024.
- 'Incident at the Coffee Machine' was a Finalist in the Joanne Burns Microlit Awards 2024 and was published by Spineless Wonders in Remnant anthology, edited by Cassandra Atherton, in April 2024.
- ‘Bedlam in the Barracks’ and ‘Rags and Boughs’ were published in Hecate journal, Volume 48 in April 2024 (University of Queensland).
- 'Brigid, Goddess of Light’ was published in the A Little Book of Brigid in May 2024.
- An excerpt from 'Hold fast to dreams' was published in May 2024 in Tears of Dust, a book by Janet Laurence for the Museum of Australian Photography.
- 'The Captain is Again at Sea' was shortlisted for The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2024 and was published in the August/September issue of The London Magazine in August 2024.
- 'Come and find me' was published in print in the Rochford Street Review, Special Edition P76 No 9: Poetries of place/ displacement / diaspora / odyssey in August 2024.
- 'Endurance' was published in Australian Poetry Anthology, Volume 11 in September 2024.
- 'Where gulls cry' was published in an online folio as part of the Rochford Street Review, Special Edition P76 No 9: Poetries of place/ displacement / diaspora / odyssey on 24 September 2024.
- 'Own brand' was published in Class anthology, edited by Les Wicks (Meuse Press) in October 2024.
- 'Our Prime Ministers says the vaccine is not a silver bullet' was selected by Sundress Publications Reads Editor, Livia Meneghin and published in Wardrobe Best Dressed (Sundress Academy for the Arts, curators of Best of the Net) on 7 November 2024. This poem won the American Writers Review Prize 2021.
- A poetry passage (Verse 66) written by Anne Casey was included in a world-first, book-length epic poem entitled Manseerah pioneered by Emirati writer and poet, Adel Khozam and first published by Dar Altakween in November 2024. Including the work of 86 poets and 17 visual artists from over 50 countries, the poem spans 16 chapters and was first published in Arabic, with translations into English, Spanish, Chinese and Bengali in progress.
- 'A History of Rain' was published in Tinteán magazine in December 2024. This poem derives from Anne Casey's award-winning doctoral research exploring 'The second-wave impact in Australia of the Great Irish Famine: reviving lost histories through poetics of resistance'.