Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford.
His publications include a chapbook, The Planets and Stars
Become Friends, (Gorey, The Funge Arts Centre, 1974); and three collections of verse: Those Distant Summers (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980); After Thunder (Raven Arts Press, 1985); and [...]

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Thank you for sending me ‘The Fabulists’. It’s a very strange and impressive book. Mr Casey has managed to make two lost and empty lives obsessively interesting. The print is hard for me to read so I [...]

A seamlessly achieved, questioning work
This is the story of two adults forced to grow far beyond the boundaries of their own expectations. It is also the story of history, and how the separation of past and present which we casually insist on in day-to-day discourse, is challenged by chance, one-in-a-million events, in this case, the [...]