Berries for Singing Birds - by Eileen Casey (Paperback)

Review Quotes

The poems are rooted deep in the daily struggle for human survival. Her birds are both real and emblematic, fit carriers of this poet's desire to celebrate and transcend.--Paula Meehan, Ireland professor of poetry

Eileen Casey's poetry is so evocative. Readers meet orphan girls, following the promise of home, traveling to the ends of the earth. Descendants, decades later, are testament that some of these lasses lived lives filled with abundance while others fared less well in the newly-colonised land of Australia.--Christina Henri, artist and activst

About the Author

Eileen Casey has published three collections of poetry and a number of chapbooks. She received the Oliver Goldsmith Prize and a Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship. She is editor of The Lea-Green Down, a response anthology to the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh.