About Philip Casey
Lived 1950 – 2018 (aged 67–68). Philip Casey was a British writer and poet.
Philip Casey (1950-2018) was an Irish poet and novelist.
Life Philip Casey was born in London on 27 June 1950. His parents were from County Laois and County Sligo and they returned to live in County Wexford, Ireland. After spending some years in Barcelona, Casey lived most of his adult life in Dublin.
He wrote both poems and novels. He also reviewed poems for the Irish Press.
He died in Dublin in 2018.
He was a member of Aosdana.
Works Poetry Those Distant Summers (Raven Arts Press, 1980) After Thunder (Raven Arts Press, 1985) The Year of the Knife (Raven Arts Press, 1995) Dialogue in Fading Light (New Island Books, 2006) Tried and Sentenced. Selected poems (eMaker Editions, 2014)
Novels The Fabulists (Lilliput Press, 1995) The Water Star (Picador, 1999) The Fisher Child (Picador, 2001) The Coupla
Awards Member, Aosdána
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Philip Casey was born on 27 June 1950 in London.
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