Before he was known to readers as a world class fictionist, Philip Casey gave us poems. On the evidence of Dialogue in Fading Light, he remains always and ever a poet of great powers. The wonder and longing, gratitude and grace that inform this work make us grateful for Casey’s many gifts. –Thomas Lynch Dialogue [...]
Those Distant Summers Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980 (No ISBN given) Cover illustration Liam O’Connor author photo Paddy Doyle with praise and thanks to my family acknowledgements are due to The Gorey Detail, The Funge Broadsheets, The Pleiades, The Cracked Lookingglass, The Stony Thursday Book, Cyphers, The Wexford Art Centre Broadsheet, Icarus, TCD, Aishling (San [...]
The Year of the Knife Poems 1980-1990 was published by Raven Arts Press, 1991. ISBN 1 85186 086 X The Raven Collection cover photo: Tony O’Shea for James Liddy Cover Endorsements Things that please me in poetry are precision, compassion and images that surpass the common run of language; also that the poet must have [...]
after thunder Raven Arts Press ISBN 0 906897 85 8 (Softback) 0 906897 86 6 (Hardback) Originated in Ireland by Raven Arts Press, Dublin, and co-published in Great Britain by Colin Smythe Ltd, Bucks. ISBN 0 86140 220 0 (Softback) 0 86140 219 7 (Hardback) © Philip Casey 1985 for Ulrike This book received a [...]