Gig Ryan 
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Still Life angleščina

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Achilleus to Odysseus angleščina

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Heroic money angleščina

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Profile angleščina

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Mary Wollstonecraft angleščina

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Electra to Clytemnestra angleščina

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Gig Ryan 
Author

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* 05.11.1956, Melbourne, Avstralija
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Gig Ryan was born in Melbourne in 1956. She has published six collections of poetry:

The Division of Anger (1981); Manners of an Astronaut (1984); The Last Interior (1986); Excavation (1990); Pure and Applied (1998), which won the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry; and Heroic Money (2001). The poems selected here are from her two most recent collections. Ryan is also a song-writer, freelance reviewer, and since 1998, poetry editor of the Melbourne Age.

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Ryan’s poetry has a terse, clipped quality, which springs from her concentrated use of irony. Irony is one of the strongest features in Australian writing, and has its roots in historical circumstance. It also works largely through tone and understatement, the unsaid, the implied, the attitude or gesture determining what is meant as much as what is actually said. In Ryan’s portraits and monologues, this traditional ironic stance is intensified through a deliberate awkwardness in the language, and a breaking of its syntactical forms, in order to heighten its gestural and emotional qualities, its tones of menace or disappointment, resentment or vulnerability, self-deception or illusion.

There is a determined resistence in Ryan’s poetry to fluency and ease, as if they papered over the jagged edge of experience, or diluted the power of expression. Her imagery , too, has an intensified, clipped, expressionist quality. Many of the poems in this selection have classical antecedents, and the ghostly ideals of classical form and grace provide an active counterpoint to the rapid, abrupt, compounded or abbreviated presentation characteristic of Ryan’s contemporary landscapes. The use of historical figures also heightens the gestural and tonal intensities of her poems. These intensities also lurk in the vernacular, and like other poets in this group, Ryan mixes colloquial, commercial and poetic forms of language to great effect.

Objave
  • The division of anger

    poems

    Glebe, N.S.W. : Transit Poetry in association with Allbooks Distribution, 1980

  • Manners of an astronaut

    Sydney, NSW: Hale & Iremonger, 1984

  • The last interior

    Melbourne: Scripsi, 1986

  • Excavation

    arguments and monologues

    Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Books, 1990

  • Pure and applied

    Brooklyn, N.S.W.: Paper Bark Press Craftsman house, 1998

  • Heroic Money

    Rose Bay, N.S.W.: Brandl & Schlesinger Poetry, 2001

Nagrade
  • 1982 Anne Elder Award

  • 1999 Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry

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