Cirrus@Austlit

'he poems in Tracy Ryan's latest collection move on 'feet of drought and tinder' from Australia to the bogs of Ireland, drawing on many eras, to test the edges of both a cutover myth and a real landscape in need of recognition and preservation. What emerges from this poetic bogland is a hoard, an archive of histories and wishes, bright gold 'glimpses yielding up fragments then closing over'.' (Publication summary)

'Breaking the Days explores a daily world of uneasy things - machine presences, breakages, scraps and dreams - where logic and the household gods are disturbed. Its powerful, stripped-down lyricism is full of questions, disquiet and curious sightings that release days from their common assumptions and offers a bracing slant on this unsettling world.' (Publication summary)