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‘Deep Hanging Out’ : Native Species Images and Affective Labour
2017
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— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 1 2017;'This paper investigates the affective labour done by, specifically, native species images in Australian poetry, using Judith Wright's bird poems, and various poems about kangaroos as example. It uses the anthropological term, "deep hanging out", borrowed from an article about fashion models, to extend the idea of affective labour, and to measure poems' attentions to birds and animals, and their relation to iconising as the work of nationalism. It is concerned with cultural capital, and Canberra, and the human empire.' (Publication abstract)
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Anxiety and Antigone : An Introduction to Gig Ryan's New and Selected Poems (2011)
2015
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— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 60 no. 2 2015; (p. 34-47) -
[Essay] : New and Selected Poems : Gig Ryan
2013
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— Appears in: Reading Australia 2013-;'Gig Ryan (1956–) in my view represents what might become of Australian poetry more so than what has come before, living uneasily in any given cultural, philosophical, or aesthetic tradition. This is work projected towards the future from within modern anxiety. Ryan has lived most of her life in Melbourne, but has also lived in Sydney. She belongs to a minority of living Australian poets published outside of Australia in book form by an active publisher1. The poetic interest of her work lies in its living simultaneously inside and outside the established ways we have of constructing history, especially literary history, along with the poetry’s vivid construction of subjectivity in late modernity using the medium of transhistorical characters from the Western political imaginary, such as Antigone. Hence this work is also unsettled in a monocultural Australian national paradigm, selective with cultural history and legacy outside of the codes of tradition, and incredulous of patriarchy. This introduction to Gig Ryan’s New and Selected Poems (2011) and broader work will bring contrary critical discourses into a syncretic theory of Ryan’s ambiguous political imaginary using a discussion of anxiety and Antigone, in particular, to introduce and explain shifts in the oeuvre’s consciousness of political subjectivity across six books and roughly thirty years of publication, from The Division of Anger (1980) to Heroic Money (2001), to poems from the present (2015), in general.' (Introduction)
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Margaret Bradstock Reviews New and Selected Poems by Gig Ryan
2012
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review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , June no. 11 2012;
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Ann Vickery Reviews Gig Ryan
2012
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— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 38 no. 0 2012;
— Review of New and Selected Poems 2011 selected work poetry
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All Greek to Lady Gaga
2011
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29 - 30 October 2011; (p. 22-23)
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Rewards Abound in Oracular Spectacular
2011
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 26 November 2011; (p. 25) The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 December 2011; (p. 35)
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Tonic and Rebuke
2011
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2011-January 2012 no. 337 2011; (p. 67-68)
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Watchfully, in a Tube of Dreams
2012
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 April 2012; (p. 23)
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The Latest Word
2012
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review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 26 2012; (p. 51)
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Anxiety and Antigone : An Introduction to Gig Ryan's New and Selected Poems (2011)
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 60 no. 2 2015; (p. 34-47) -
[Essay] : New and Selected Poems : Gig Ryan
2013
single work
essay
— Appears in: Reading Australia 2013-;'Gig Ryan (1956–) in my view represents what might become of Australian poetry more so than what has come before, living uneasily in any given cultural, philosophical, or aesthetic tradition. This is work projected towards the future from within modern anxiety. Ryan has lived most of her life in Melbourne, but has also lived in Sydney. She belongs to a minority of living Australian poets published outside of Australia in book form by an active publisher1. The poetic interest of her work lies in its living simultaneously inside and outside the established ways we have of constructing history, especially literary history, along with the poetry’s vivid construction of subjectivity in late modernity using the medium of transhistorical characters from the Western political imaginary, such as Antigone. Hence this work is also unsettled in a monocultural Australian national paradigm, selective with cultural history and legacy outside of the codes of tradition, and incredulous of patriarchy. This introduction to Gig Ryan’s New and Selected Poems (2011) and broader work will bring contrary critical discourses into a syncretic theory of Ryan’s ambiguous political imaginary using a discussion of anxiety and Antigone, in particular, to introduce and explain shifts in the oeuvre’s consciousness of political subjectivity across six books and roughly thirty years of publication, from The Division of Anger (1980) to Heroic Money (2001), to poems from the present (2015), in general.' (Introduction)
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‘Deep Hanging Out’ : Native Species Images and Affective Labour
2017
single work
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 1 2017;'This paper investigates the affective labour done by, specifically, native species images in Australian poetry, using Judith Wright's bird poems, and various poems about kangaroos as example. It uses the anthropological term, "deep hanging out", borrowed from an article about fashion models, to extend the idea of affective labour, and to measure poems' attentions to birds and animals, and their relation to iconising as the work of nationalism. It is concerned with cultural capital, and Canberra, and the human empire.' (Publication abstract)
Awards
- 2012 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- 2012 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry
- 2012 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal