Philip Casey
Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in
London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford.
His verse collections are
Those Distant Summers (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980); After
Thunder (Raven Arts Press, 1985); The Year of the Knife
Poems 1980-1990, (Raven Arts Press Dublin, 1991); and Dialogue
in Fading Light/New and Selected Poems (Dublin, New Island Books, 2005).
His play
Cardinal, was performed in Hamburg in 1990.
His novels are The
Fabulists (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994/ London, Serif Books,
1995); The Water Star (London, Picador, 1999); and The Fisher Child
(Picador, 2001), which completes The Bann River Trilogy.
He has been a recipient of an Arts Council/An Chomairle Éalaíon
Bursary for Literature, and was awarded the inaugural Kerry
Ingredients/ Listowel Writers’ Week Novel of the Year Award (1995)
for The Fabulists. A member of Aosdána he tends to Irish Writers Online and other websites in his spare
time. He lives in Dublin.
