Seang (Hungering) - Couverture souple

Casey, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1915022894 ISBN 13 : 9781915022899

Editeur : Salmon Poetry, 2026

Synopsis

For the 180th anniversary of An Gorta Mór’s commencement, Seang (Hungering) poignantly reclaims the human story behind the lost history of a group of rebel girls who were daughters of refugees from Ireland’s Great Famine. It seeks to restore voice to these girls and their families, who were silenced over and over during their lives, and who suffered destitution, discrimination, and intergenerational incarceration and hardships largely driven by colonial policies, attitudes and actions in Ireland and in their country of refuge, Australia. Incorporating award-winning research and poetry, Seang offers a beacon for the 473 million children in our world today who are impacted by conflict and extreme food insecurity driven by the same three factors—climate, politics and economics. ‘Seang is a work that reaches deeply into human suffering and trauma. Anne Casey’s material is harrowing, yet through compassion, through risk-taking, and the dazzling spell of poetry, this book brings us face-to-face with what we should never turn away from: the sinister effects of colonialism and the power structures that destabilise our abilities to act humanely. With these poems, Anne Casey brings dignity to those who have been brutalized and forgotten. The many layers in this book build to epic proportions, its rhythms and interrogations create unforgettable power. Seang reminds us that poetry expresses thought and feeling more lastingly than anything else.’ —Judith Beveridge, Poet, editor, academic, Prime Minister’s Poetry Prize winner ‘Anne Casey’s Seang (Hungering) is an elegant, multifaceted meditation on the privations meted out to the daughters of Irish famine immigrants to Australia, moving beyond the historical record to explore hunger as both a physical condition and a metaphysical punishment, inseparable in many cases from the condition of womanhood. Casey’s poised, lyrical poems are grounded in the body as the site of originary appetites and suffering, but also attuned to the spiritual hungers generated by separation from language, culture, place and family. Formally and tonally various, moving between the historical and the imagined, the known and the unknowable, Seang (Hungering) offers a searing archive of the female experience that is shot through everywhere with Casey’s sensitivity to the image, line and music. What impresses most is Casey’s sense of voice: by turns epistolary, documentary, confessional, rebellious and ardent, these poems speak to us across time and space, demanding and commanding our attention.’ —Professor Sarah Holland-Batt, Poet, academic, Prime Minister’s Literary Award winner ‘At the heart of Seang, Anne Casey’s searing new collection are journeys. This work, a rich, polyvocal, intertextual, and lyric documentary, calls to mind John Montague’s The Dead Kingdom and Michael Coady’s All Souls, both classic explorations of the Irish Diaspora. Seang is underlined by forced journeys endured by women and girls from Ireland to Australia in the wake of the Great Hunger, and by their subsequent journeys within New South Wales as they sought to gain footholds in an often hostile and inhospitable land. Aided by groundbreaking research and great literary skill, Anne Casey brings to vibrant life the experiences and desires of Eliza O’Brien (1851-1876), whose family hailed from Shanagolden in Co. Limerick, and of the many others who suffered in Australian industrial schools and prisons and who, until now, were silent. Seang is a furious, graceful, and deeply moving work of literary witness.’ —Professor Eamonn Wall, Poet, academic, Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies, University of Missouri-St Louis

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anne Casey is a writer, poet and lyricist with over 25 years' experience in print and electronic publishing, creative writing and media communications. She passionately believes that every song or poem, like all art, should leave you changed by the experience. Her greatest ambition is to move people through her words.

Anne has worked as a business journalist; magazine editor; corporate and government communications director; author and editor. Her article "The Lock Up" was the most-read feature and the third most-read piece in the entire The Irish Times newspaper over the weekend of its publication in May 2017. She was subsequently interviewed by Roisin Ingle on The Women's Podcast for The Irish Times.

Anne has collaborations with artists and composers in Australia and the United States. Her poetry has been published in international newspapers, magazines, literary journals and books. She has written lyrics for 50+ songs, which feature in concerts and live performances, music albums, videos and on the radio airwaves.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Salmon Poetry
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1915022894
• ISBN 13: 9781915022899
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible