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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Rose Interior
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'The poems in Rose Interior move between the inside and outside of everything they touch, from the domestic scene, both cosy and claustrophobic, to the social and ecological settings we must all answer for. Poems from Ireland, Switzerland and Australia consider life at home in the personal sense: through the body, childhood memories and family houses, ‘a room within a dream’. Wherever home lies, it’s always on borrowed time. The collection turns inward to ponder human transience. Yet there’s also the wider sense of our place in the world, where the natural environment requires our closer attention, especially the things we ignore or devalue when we put self at the centre. Against the background of the global pandemic and ongoing climate change, the book’s last section deals with experiences of home education during lockdowns, for better and for worse. It calls for more kindness not only to ourselves, but to younger generations and our future.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2022 .
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      Extent: 96p.
      Note/s:
      • Published April 2022
      ISBN: 9781925818963

Works about this Work

Ella Jeffrey Reviews Rose Interior Ella Jeffery , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 194-197)

— Review of Rose Interior Tracy Ryan , 2022 selected work poetry
‘A House before Dawn’ Tracy Ryan’s Poetics of Domesticity and Precarity Maria Takolander , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 444 2022; (p. 53-54)

— Review of Rose Interior Tracy Ryan , 2022 selected work poetry

'Umberto Eco once described the text as a ‘lazy machine asking the reader to do some of its work’; to contribute, in other words, to the production of meaning. Poetry has a particular reputation for being demanding, but Tracy Ryan’s tenth poetry collection, Rose Interior, isn’t challenging in the way that Eco envisages. It is less about engaging readers in the masculinist energy of the ‘machine’ and ‘work’ than about inviting them into a feminine world of domestic spaces and quotidian phenomena. If a reader were to conceptualise the text in the way that Eco describes, the engine for Rose Interior might be located in a poem called ‘Request’, where the poet announces her interest in whatever is

'little and liminal,

won’t take much space, the odd
moment you think of ...  or don’t,

whatever you wouldn’t look twice at ...'(Introduction)   

‘A House before Dawn’ Tracy Ryan’s Poetics of Domesticity and Precarity Maria Takolander , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 444 2022; (p. 53-54)

— Review of Rose Interior Tracy Ryan , 2022 selected work poetry

'Umberto Eco once described the text as a ‘lazy machine asking the reader to do some of its work’; to contribute, in other words, to the production of meaning. Poetry has a particular reputation for being demanding, but Tracy Ryan’s tenth poetry collection, Rose Interior, isn’t challenging in the way that Eco envisages. It is less about engaging readers in the masculinist energy of the ‘machine’ and ‘work’ than about inviting them into a feminine world of domestic spaces and quotidian phenomena. If a reader were to conceptualise the text in the way that Eco describes, the engine for Rose Interior might be located in a poem called ‘Request’, where the poet announces her interest in whatever is

'little and liminal,

won’t take much space, the odd
moment you think of ...  or don’t,

whatever you wouldn’t look twice at ...'(Introduction)   

Ella Jeffrey Reviews Rose Interior Ella Jeffery , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 194-197)

— Review of Rose Interior Tracy Ryan , 2022 selected work poetry
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