Anne Casey, Author at FemAsia Magazine

When Coronavirus Strikes And You Are Half A World From Home

As I boarded the flight from Sydney to Los Angeles just over two weeks ago, I wasn’t without my niggling doubts. COVID-19 had infested local and global headlines as insidiously as our collective consciousness. For over a year,

by Anne Casey

Politics & Culture

Confronting The Dark Side Of The Irish Down Under

When Irish-Australian poet and writer, Anne Casey was asked to write for an art exhibition in Australia, she embarked on a dark voyage of discovery into the lives of Irish immigrant children one hundred and fifty years ago. …………………

by Anne Casey

Fictional Arts·Literature

You’ll Never Walk Alone

The grandmother ever at my shoulderWhat harm another little nub of butter?A pinch of sage would lift the whole thing Navigating the gaps as nimbly now as she didIn her dimly-lit kitchen with its three trip-up steps to sprinkle and stirHer

by Anne Casey

Fictional Arts·Literature

If Wallets Were Skirts

Sir, where exactly were you when the alleged offence took place? Ah, and would you agree – as outlined in earlier expert testimony – that this is a dark street? Thank you – and were you alone at the time? And –

by Anne Casey

Fictional Arts·Literature

In The Name Of The Almighty

Clouds swarmed in great dark clumps a malformed day transformed to murk as she was dumped – a squall settling beyond wailing walls, wind bawling Following through the icy halls head bowed, bag in hand flat soles slapping cold stone flags and

by Anne Casey

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Anne Casey

When Coronavirus Strikes And You Are Half A World From Home

Confronting The Dark Side Of The Irish Down Under

You’ll Never Walk Alone

If Wallets Were Skirts

In The Name Of The Almighty