Dr Anne Casey’s latest poetry collection, Seang (Hungering), is informed by her doctoral research on the histories of Great Irish Famine migrant girls in Australia. Anne is an internationally acclaimed poet from west Clare in Ireland and a longtime resident of Australia. In this conversation, Anne shares insights from her research and her own family history and a kinship she has found between First Nations peoples in Ireland and Australia.

This episode features Anne Casey presenting a live reading of her poem, ‘Warrung gathering’.

An extended version of this conversation is available via the Wide Open Air Exchange podcast.

The image contains a photo of Anne Casey from her artist profile on The Pranqueans website alongside the cover of Anne’s latest poetry collection.