Gig Ryan

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

Gig Ryan, born Elizabeth Anne Martina Ryan, 5 November 1956, is an Australian poet, and daughter of notable Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan

Ryan was born in Leicester, England to Australian parents, and is currently the poetry editor for The Age newspaper. She has published several volumes of poetry and performed and recorded with the groups Disband and, currently, Driving Past. Her book Pure and Applied won the 1999 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and her latest, Heroic Money, was shortlisted for the 2002 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.

Bibliography

The Division of Anger (1981)
Manners of an Astronaut (1984)
The Last Interior (1986)
Excavation (1990)
Pure and Applied (1998)
Heroic Money (2001)
New and Selected Poems (2011)
Selected Poems (UK) (2012)

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
Driving Past Band homepage

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Name	Ryan, Gig
Alternative names
Short description	Contemporary Australian poet
Date of birth	5 November 1956
Place of birth	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date of death
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