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Philip Casey (June 27, 1950 - February 4, 2018) was an Irish poet and novelist.[1]

Philip Casey. Courtesy Amazon.

Philip Casey. Courtesy Amazon.

Life[]

Casey was born in London, England, to Irish parents.[2]

In 1956 his family moved to co. Wexford, Ireland, where he grew up, living first in Screen and later in Hollyfort.[3]

As a teenager he lost a leg due to complications following intense radiation to treat cancer. He began writing verse by composing songs with a guitar in his hospital bed.[4]

As an adult, he spent several years in Barcelona, Spain.[4] His play, Cardinal, was performed in Hamburg in 1990. His novel The Fabulists has been translated into German and Japanese.[2]

In 2014, he founded his own imprint, eMaker Editions, to publish his back list and all future work.[2]

He lived in Dublin, where he tended to Irish Writers Online and other websites in his spare time.[2]

He died on 4 February 2018 in Blanchardstown Hospice, Dublin, aged 67.[1]

Writing[]

Irish Times: "His spare, elegaic poetry gives voice to themes of family, place, love in its many forms, political injustice, and pain, both physical and emotional."[4]

Recognition[]

He was awarded the inaugural Kerry Ingredients / Listowel Writers’ Week Novel of the Year Award (1995) for The Fabulists. He is a member of Aosdána.[2]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Those Distant Summers. Dublin: Raven Arts, 1980.
  • After Thunder. Dublin: Raven Arts / Gerrards Cross, UK: Colin Smythe, 1985.
  • The Year of the Knife: Poems, 1980-1990. Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1991.
  • Dialogue in Fading Light: New and selected poems. Dublin: New Island, 2005.
  • Tried and Sentenced: Selected poems. Dublin: eMaker Editions, 2014.

Novels[]

Bann River Trilogy
  • The Fabulists. Dublin: Lilliput, 1994; London: Serif, 1994; Dublin & New York: Lilliput, 1995; Dublin: eMaker Editions, 2014.
  • The Water Star. London: Picador, 1999; eMaker Editions, 2014.
  • The Fisher Child. London: Picador, 2001; eMaker Editions, 2015.

Juvenile[]

  • The Coupla. Dublin: eMaker Editions, 2015.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Martin Doyle, "Tributes pour in for much-loved writer Philip Casey (67)," Irish Times, February 5, 2018. Web, Jul. 20, 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Casey, Philip, Irish Writers Online. Web, Jan. 18,2017.
  3. ↑ Biography, PhilipCasey.com. Web, Jan. 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Katie Donovan, "Fellow writers salute Philip Casey at 65 as he publishes his Selected Poems," Irish Times, August 27, 2015. Web, Jan. 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ Search results = au:Philip Casey, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Jan. 18, 2017.

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