Philip Casey

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 Fran­cisco), Quick & Cheap (New Orleans), Hiber­nia, and The Cork Review, RTÉ Radio. Six poems from the col­lec­tion were pub­lished in Feath­ers and Bones, an antho­logy of 10 Irish poets, The Mud­horn Press, Santa Bar­bara, ed. Sev­rin Housen.

Spe­cial thanks to Mick, James, Paul, Liam, Paddy and Eileen.