Gig Ryan

Gig Elizabeth Ryan
Born	(1956-11-05) November 5, 1956 Leicester, England

Gig Ryan, born Elizabeth Anne Martina Ryan November 5, 1956, is an Australian poet. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.

Biography

Ryan was born in Leicester, England in 1956. Her father was Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan.

She lived in Sydney 1978–1990, and later became poetry editor of The Age newspaper 1998–2016. She has also recorded her songs with the bands Disband and Driving Past. Her book Pure and Applied won the 1999 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and Heroic Money was shortlisted for the 2002 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. New and Selected Poems was shortlisted for the 2012 Prime Minister's Award for Poetry and the 2012 ASAL award, and winner of the 2012 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the 2011 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry.

Bibliography

• The Division of Anger Transit Press (1981)
• Manners of an Astronaut Hale and Iremonger (1984)
• Manners of an Astronaut Shearsman Library (2018)
• The Last Interior Scripsi Magazine (1986)
• Excavation PanPicador Australia (1990)
• Pure and Applied Paper Bark Press / Craftsman House (1998)
• Research Folio/Salt (1999)
• Heroic Money Brandl & Schlesinger (2001)
• New and Selected Poems Giramondo (2011)
• Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books (UK) (2012)

Discography

• "Six Goodbyes" Disband, Big Home Productions (1988)
• "Church Fete" Driving Past, Chapter Music (1998)
• "Real Estate" Driving Past, Chapter Music (1999)
• "Travel" Driving Past, Jacana Records (2006)

External links

• The Division of Anger online at Australian Literary Resources
• Poems and Vietnamese translations
• Three poems at Jacket Magazine
• Two poems at Jacket Magazine
• Dignitaries poem at Slope Magazine
• And the foetid air and gritty: Les Murray's Subhuman Redneck Poems
• Uncertain Possession: The Politics and Poetry of Judith Wright
• Uncertain Possession: the Politics and Poetry of Judith Wright
• Evil Has No Witnesses: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer
• [1]
• http://cordite.org.au/tags/gig-ryan/ Cordite Poetry Review
• Martin Johnston 1947-1990
• Driving Past Band homepage
• [2] Archived 12 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine Real Estate, Driving Past (1999),Chapter Music
• [3] Church Fete, Driving Past (1998), Chapter Music
• [4] Travel, Driving Past (2006)
• [5] Travel, Driving Past (2006)
• [6] Exhibit B, compilation album, H. Records (1997)
• [7] Truth Against The World, compilation album, 555 Recordings (1998)
• [8] Double Figures, compilation album, Chapter Music (2002)
• [9] Melbourne Water, compilation album, Volume One, W.Minc label (2004)
• [10] Empress Hotel, compilation album, 555 Recordings, Red Square (2009)