Gig Ryan, born Elizabeth Anna Martina Ryan, 5 November 1956, is an Australian poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, and daughter of notable Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan

Peter John Ryan

Peter John Ryan, OAM was a consultant surgeon at St Vincent%27s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Dookie, Victoria in 1925; qualified in medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1948; MS, FRCS, FRACS, FISA ); and died from cancer on 3 June 2002.Ryan was President of the...

Ryan was born in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Australia

Australia

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, and is currently the poetry editor for The Age

The Age

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

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

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry

The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. It is named after the early twentieth century vernacular poet C. J...

 and her latest, Heroic Money, was shortlisted for the 2002 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form...

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External links

• The Division of Anger online at Australian Literary Resources
• Poems and Vietnamese
  Vietnamese language
  Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...
  
   translations
• Three poems at Jacket Magazine
  Jacket (magazine)
  Jacket is an on-line literary periodical edited by the Australian poet John Tranter. The first issue was in October 1997.Each new number of the magazine is posted at the Web site piece by piece until the new issue is full, when the next issue starts. Past issues remain posted as well...
  
  
• Two poems at Jacket Magazine
• Dignitaries poem at Slope Magazine
• Driving Past Band homepage