After school she enrolled in an Arts degree at La Trobe University in 1974.
She also attended Sydney University from 1983 to 1987.
Besides, Ryan received a degree in Latin and Ancient Greek from the University of Melbourne in 1993.
After school she enrolled in an Arts degree at La Trobe University in 1974.
She also attended Sydney University from 1983 to 1987.
Besides, Ryan received a degree in Latin and Ancient Greek from the University of Melbourne in 1993.
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Gig Ryan (born Elizabeth Anne Martina Ryan) was born on November 5, 1956, in Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, to Australian parents. She is the fourth of ten children of notable Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan and Margery Ryan.
The family had moved to England so that Peter Ryan could qualify as a surgeon, and they returned to Australia in 1957, settling in Melbourne.
Educated at Catholic schools in Melbourne, Ryan became interested in literature, music and the arts at a young age. In 1974, at seventeen, she published her first poems shortly thereafter. After school, she enrolled in an Arts degree at La Trobe University in 1974. She also attended Sydney University from 1983 to 1987. Besides, Ryan received a degree in Latin and Ancient Greek from the University of Melbourne in 1993.
While studying at La Trobe University, Ryan supported herself with a variety of casual jobs. In 1974, she helped found a feminist literary journal "Luna" which she co-edited with others (including Barbara Giles) until 1978. As well as writing poetry, Ryan remained interested in music, and as a singer/songwriter performed in Melbourne bars and cafes.
At the end of 1978, Ryan moved to Sydney, where she pursued her interest in music, studying musical theory and forming a three-piece band Disband with two other women. She continued to write poetry and, at the end of 1980, published her first collection "The Division of Anger". Ryan has since published six further poetry collections, including "Pure and Applied".
Returning to Melbourne in 1990, she continued to perform and record with the band Driving Past. She has been active as a critic and freelance book reviewer, particularly of poetry, and since 2001 she has been poetry editor for "The Age".
In 2011 her book "New and Selected Poems" was published.
Ryan is noted for her satirical edge poetry with sharp observations on social mores and idiosyncratic use of language.
Her first collection "The Division of Anger" was joint-winner of the Anne Elder award in 1981.
Besides, her book "Pure and Applied" won the 1999 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry (now the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry), and "Heroic Money" was shortlisted for the 2002 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. Moreover, "New and Selected Poems" was shortlisted for the 2012 Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry and the 2012 ASAL award, and was the winner of the 2012 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the 2011 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry.
Ryan is also a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.
Quotations:
"Using one’s brain to its maximum capacity - doing what one enjoys - is its own defence. Poetry is the vanguard of language."
"Everything around us goes into poetry, so I see poetry as necessarily political and of its time, but all art is, implicitly, revision and criticism of earlier work as well."
In her early teenage years poetry and songs seemed the most interesting things to pursue.
