Anne Casey, Signals by Sea, poetry by TahomaLiterary

I was born by the edge of the ocean in the west of Ireland, my childhood spent on and off boats along this coastline that had sustained generations of my family. My trawler captain father has always taught me that we co-exist with the ecosystem. Living in the sprawling city of Sydney on the far side of the world, I am often startled by how removed we are now from our connection to the natural world. This ecopoem laments the losses evident in both my native and adoptive homelands, and through the thousands of miles between, due to human excesses.

Originally from the west of Ireland and living in Australia, Anne Casey is author of two poetry collections—out of emptied cups (2019) and where the lost things go (2017). A journalist, magazine editor, legal author and media communications director for thirty years, her work is widely published internationally, ranking in leading national daily newspaper, The Irish Times' Most Read. She has won and shortlisted for poetry prizes in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK, the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, and Australia.