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Manners of an Astronaut

By Gig Ryan
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By Gig Ryan
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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, lacerati...

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PoetryAustralian, New Zealand, & Pacific Island PoetryAustralian poetry->20th century