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Articles by Gig Ryan
Overland literary journal
I. The whistling unbelievers have passed this way. They work for the most private industry, are recognized by few. Their cause: to mark like television does, its lurid heroes turn to each other in their seats, respond like a poor script. They will drop by with acres of advice and good things and a frail questionnaire with multiple-choice answers. They’re thoughtful. II.
Gig Ryan reviews 'Bestseller' by M.T.C Cronin
In the August 2001 issue of Meanjin, M.T.C. Cronin writes of poetry: ‘The poems are not as useful as ribs but like them do protect life and when removed from the body grow certain murmurings of the mind.’ No matter how chaotic or runic her prose pronouncements, Cronin’s poems are quirky and original at best, diffuse and repetitive at worst. Cronin continues to ‘just go on your nerve’, as Frank O’Hara wrote.
Gig Ryan reviews 'Topsy-Turvy' by Charles Bernstein
Poetry A genre-frisking collection Topsy-Turvy by Charles Bernstein University of Chicago Press, $41.95 pb, 170 pp Poetry A genre-frisking collection Charles Bernstein (photograph via the University of Pennsylvania) Charles Bernstein, born in 1950, is a prolific poet and theorist of Language poetry, which arose in the 1970s in the wake of the anti-Vietnam War movement (or the American War, as the Vietnamese call it).
Gig Ryan reviews 'Topsy-Turvy' by Charles Bernstein
Poetry A genre-frisking collection Topsy-Turvy by Charles Bernstein University of Chicago Press, $41.95 pb, 170 pp Poetry A genre-frisking collection Charles Bernstein (photograph via the University of Pennsylvania) Charles Bernstein, born in 1950, is a prolific poet and theorist of Language poetry, which arose in the 1970s in the wake of the anti-Vietnam War movement (or the American War, as the Vietnamese call it).
Gig Ryan reviews 'I Don’t Know How That Happened' by Oliver Driscoll, 'nothing to declare' by Mags Webster, and 'The dancer in your hands ' by Jo Pollitt
Poetry Three new poetry collections Poetry Three new poetry collections I Don’t Know How That Happened by Oliver Driscoll Recent Work Press, $19.95 pb, 74 pp Oliver Driscoll’s note on his first book I Don’t Know How That Happened praises the inclusive flatness of David Hockney’s still life paintings, and it is to this inclusiveness that his poems and prose pieces aspire.
'Simaetha', a new poem by Gig Ryan
Poem Poem (‘Idyll II’, Theocritus) Where are my bay leaves and charms, my bowl with crimson flowers while he inexorable has gone from my bed like a dress Distance: spells of fire wreathe you Shine on this spin or grave as sight stunned me leaves burn Wheel of brass turning from my door Now wave is still and wind is still My heart stopped in its foundry As horses run, so we to it Starts love’s knife whose hair shone like dunes whose body greased with labour He had brought apples and his hair...
Fortune's Favours
Poem Poem 1. Two birds scoop white sky into the lank pines behind your stone as if to say we’re with you. In front the road crofts and peaks. You can’t pinpoint the sector but it was adamantine like your knowing to pull out to sail through the lock, ink a renunciation into an oiled bay. The monstrance twinkles ahead, a wheeled pizza, while catastrophe tourism tails them with its clothes. My friends in books clash but offset the revenue stream. 2.
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Carl Phillips(United States, 1959) by PoetryFoundation.org Referred to as “one of America’s most original, influential, and productive of lyric poets,” Carl Phillips is the author of a dozen books of poetry and two works of criticism. He was born in Everett, Washington in 1959, …
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