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Episode: Anne Casey on Seang (Hungering)
Description: Anne Casey drops by to read from and talk about her latest book Seang (Hungering). Anne talks about how the book came about including how she found her "girls" at the Newcastle Industrial School for Girls, pathway to PhD thesis, importance of the mother tongue (Gaeilge, which she speaks so beautifully), the ongoing impact of the Irish famine, the connections between Irish and First Nation experiences of imperialism, the revival of lost history through poetics and much more. Towards the end of our conversation, Anne mentioned one of her poems "A City Girl" which was written after Henry Lawson’s...