y separately published work icon Pure and Applied selected work   poetry  
  • Author:agent Gig Ryan http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/ryan-gig
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Pure and Applied
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Of course it was their armour dragged them down - Martin Johnston, The Battle of Trasimene

    Is prevention better than cure? Is Canberra? - John Forbes, The Joyful Mysteries

Contents

* Contents derived from the Brooklyn, Mount Colah - Berowra - Brooklyn area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Craftsman House ,Paper Bark Press , 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Pure and Appliedi"The channel caves in his hand like a weak cushion", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 11-13)
White Nighti"It kills me, but I live", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 14)
Autumni"You go to bed a failure and rise a saint", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 15)
And Let This Conglomeration Goi"My brother's pulling voice falls around my maps and factories", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 16)
One Hundred Flowersi"The busts of fourteen honourable gunmen are almost finished", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 17)
At the Laundromati"'I didn't really know that we could have other lovers", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 18)
London Saveri"My cortex dissolves its crisp moon imploring like a painting", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 19)
Tresspassi"Mortality buries its face beneath the climbing domes", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 20)
Two Wintersi"I learn at the museum Van Gogh is never cold", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 21)
Still Lifei"Spongey beer shells the brain's late noon", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 22)
Voyagei"Bitterness and rancour lathe inside", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 23)
Forfeiti"Unreal world I see from the cave with opinion, change and decay", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 24-25)
Fog (One)i"It's great visuals as he switchblades around", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 26)
Impressarioi"Spiritualism's amnesia quells your desires and regrets", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 27-30)
Memoiri"Seeing him again is nothing, if it ever was", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 31)
Compass and Mapi"Gone are all the vines, hands, wells, sills of discontent", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 32)
Transfer Feei"You don't disport, but drift", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 33)
New Corral (August 1992)i"America readies for its new corral", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 34)
Last Classi"Fear that I may not impart what's crucial", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 35)
His Desert Bequesti"Yeah cool. Some jape, like, totally bounced", Gig Ryan , single work poetry (p. 36-37)
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36 Exp. (Tête-à-texte with Gig Ryan's Poetry Collection Pure And Applied*) i "I wake up to work. My chin stuck to my chest stops the acid getting", Michael Farrell , 2000 single work poetry
— Appears in: Jacket , October no. 12 2000;
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Works about this Work

John Forbes’s ‘Miraculous Fluidity’ Corey Wakeling , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016;
Counting and Comparing Personal, etc., Pronouns in and Between Ryan's Pure and Applied and Ashbery's Wakefulness Michael Farrell , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 18 no. 1 2004; (p. 57-58) Farrell compares the use of pronouns in Gig Ryan's Pure and Applied and John Ashbery's Wakefulness.
Equerries of Doubt Michael Hulse , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Poetry Review , Spring vol. 89 no. 1 1999; (p. 80-81)
— Review of Pure and Applied Gig Ryan , 1998 selected work poetry ; Damaged Glamour John Forbes , 1998 selected work poetry
Untitled Hugh Tolhurst , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Heat , no. 12 1999; (p. 238-242)
— Review of Pure and Applied Gig Ryan , 1998 selected work poetry
A Sense of Waste and Pointless Brutality Geoff Page , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 February 1999; (p. 23)
— Review of Pure and Applied Gig Ryan , 1998 selected work poetry ; Broken Land : 5 Days in Bre, 1995 Coral Hull , 1997 selected work poetry
Sweetness and Destruction Geraldine McKenzie , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 79 1999; (p. 71-74)
— Review of The World Beyond the Fig M. T. C. Cronin , 1998 selected work poetry ; Pure and Applied Gig Ryan , 1998 selected work poetry
Millennial Mandate Don Anderson , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 October 1998; (p. 12)
— Review of Donatello in Wangaratta Peter Rose , 1998 selected work poetry ; Pure and Applied Gig Ryan , 1998 selected work poetry
The Argument of the Poem John Mateer , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 205 1998; (p. 36-38)
— Review of Pure and Applied Gig Ryan , 1998 selected work poetry ; Jigsaw : Poems and Prose Poems Gary Catalano , 1998 selected work poetry
Pared Back Poems Peppered with Unpeopled Pronouns David McCooey , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 January 1999; (p. 8)
— Review of Pure and Applied Gig Ryan , 1998 selected work poetry
A Sense of Waste and Pointless Brutality Geoff Page , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 February 1999; (p. 23)
— Review of Pure and Applied Gig Ryan , 1998 selected work poetry ; Broken Land : 5 Days in Bre, 1995 Coral Hull , 1997 selected work poetry
Counting and Comparing Personal, etc., Pronouns in and Between Ryan's Pure and Applied and Ashbery's Wakefulness Michael Farrell , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 18 no. 1 2004; (p. 57-58) Farrell compares the use of pronouns in Gig Ryan's Pure and Applied and John Ashbery's Wakefulness.
The Art of Commitment Jason Steger , 1999 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 17 October 1999; (p. 10)
John Forbes’s ‘Miraculous Fluidity’ Corey Wakeling , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 4 May no. 54.0 2016;
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