Bog Treasure contains the poetic results of an international collaboration between poet and prose writer Eileen Casey, and visual artist and poet Jeanne Cannizzo. Bog Treasure forms part of an exhibition, 'The Strange Case of the Irish Elk', which made its Canadian debut at Errant Artspace, Victoria, British Columbia, in September 2021. The exhibition featured drawings and sculptures by Cannizzo, and poetry by Casey, together with a short film, Treasure, showcasing Casey's bog-related poems set against the backdrop of peatlands.
JEANNE CANNIZZO is an anthropologist, artist and sometimes a poet. Her latest poem is in the Spring 2021 issue of J Journal, from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York. Her sculpture was shown in Neoneanderthals, for which she also wrote the catalogue and wall text, at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, 2019. She lived in that city for several years while teaching at the University of Edinburgh and acting as an occasional guest curator for the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, as she has done for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria since her return to Canada.
Bog Treasure is EILEEN CASEY'S sixth poetry collection; her most recent being the critically-acclaimed Berries for Singing Birds (Arlen House, 2019), She has also shown a number of Poetry in Public Places' exhibitions, most notably 'Reading Fire, Writing Flame (awarded by Offaly Arts, 2008), A short film, Black Ball Gown, was commissioned by Paris-based artists Cleary and Connolly for Moving Dublin, 2009. Her latest film, Treasure, was commissioned by Offaly Arts for Culture Night 2021.
Sincere thanks is due to publisher Alan Hayes, Arlen House. To errant artspace (Alston Street, Victoria, BC, Canada), for providing a venue for the work and for their willingness to embrace the collaboration between Cannizzo and Casey. To Rita Ann Higgins, editor of Out the Clara Road (Offaly County Council, 1999) where 'Peať first appeared and to AltEnTs (Rua Red Arts Centre, Tallaght, South Dublin) where Woman Wearing her Home Around her Shoulders' was first
published in From Bone to Blossom (2008).
To photographer Tina Claffey for her cover image, "Frozen Sphagnum Boghole"
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