Dialogue in Fading Light: New and Selected Poems

In his widely acclaimed novels, Philip Casey has shaped a distinctive vision of the emergent Ireland. Now he returns to poetry, in his first collection in almost fifteen years. Quietly asserting that poetry waits to be discovered - rather than being explained or packaged - he blends re-worked older poems with new reflections on love, death and the times we live in, ranging in tone from the light-hearted to the contemplative.

Praise for Philip Casey:

'Before he was known to readers as a world class fictionist, Philip Casey gave us poems. On the evidence of Dialogue in Fading Light, he remains always and ever a poet of great powers. The wonder and longing, gratitude and grace that inform this work make us grateful for Casey's many gifts' Thomas Lynch

'Casey is a poet and a playwright; he has a poet's delicate ear and a playwright's eye for direction' The Times

'Philip Casey is one of our most intuitive and interesting writers' Dermot Bolger

'Casey gives physicality to abstract ideas with great assurance and he has an eye for things which do not clamour for attention' Susan McKay, Sunday Press

'Casey writes in a language which is supple, accurate, sensitive and immensely strong' Ros Cowman, GRAPH