Manners of an Astronaut (Shearsman Library) - Softcover

Ryan, Gig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848615884 ISBN 13: 9781848615885

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2018

Synopsis

Manners of an Astronaut was Gig Ryan's second collection, in 1984, and confirmed the impression she had made with her first book. It has been unavailable for some time although parts have reappeared in her New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe in the UK, and Giramondo in Australia). As Martin Johnston said in a blurb for the first edition: "it marks... something new in Australian poetry: a deeply coherent 'discontinuous narrative' in verse of hallucinatory vividness and continual wry wit, lacerating without self-pity, demanding without pretentiousness or condescension. No one will find it comfortable reading. Ryan's craftsmanship is impeccable, her vision bullshit-proof."

"Gig Ryan... develops and extends the strengths of her first collection The Division of Anger. Like that book, Manners of an Astronaut is full of verbal energy... She doesn't give up the concerns her first book was a direct combative response to. Instead of using the language of feeling, she explores its discontinuities. is makes her work more poignant and sophisticated." -John Forbes, Scripsi magazine

About this title

About the Author

Gig Ryan is an Australian poet who was born in Leicester, England, and was poetry editor for the Melbourne newspaper, The Age 1998-2016. She has also recorded her songs with the bands Disband and Driving Past. Author of seven individual collections, and a large retrospective New and Selected, her book Pure and Applied won the 1999 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and Heroic Money was shortlisted for the 2002 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. New and Selected Poems was shortlisted for the 2012 Prime Minister's Award for Poetry and the 2012 ASAL award, and won both the 2012 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the 2011 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848615884
• ISBN 13: 9781848615885
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 86