Dr Anne Casey is an internationally acclaimed poet from west Clare in Ireland and a longtime resident of Australia. Recently, one of Anne’s poems was sent to The Moon as part of a project of preserving poetry from every continent on Earth for future lunar visitors. Throughout this conversation, Anne kindly reads and introduces several of her poems.

This is a list of poems read by Anne during the program:

‘Love in a time of chaos’

‘Come and find me’

‘I will arise and go’

An extended version of this conversation is available via the Wide Open Air Exchange podcast including a discussion of Anne Casey’s doctoral research on ‘The second-wave impact in Australia of the Great Irish Famine: reviving lost histories through poetics of resistance’.

The image of Anne Casey on this page is from her artist profile on The Pranqueans website

The other feature image is “Powder Flower’ by Cezary Korsieko (October 9 Arts, Poland) which is the cover image to the poetry collection, Out of Emptied Cups by Anne Casey.