Heroic Money

Shortlisted for the 2002 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

Heroic Money, an elegiac new collection both criticises and celebrates contemporary existence.

“Ryan reinvents language with her uncanny couplings and alignments.” – Island

“Her dramatic intensity, and her control of irony, have made Gig Ryan one of Australia’s great satirists.” – Ivor Indyk

“…post-modern poetry discovers its classical voice… Her monologues have a fragmentary quality, as if spoken in a post-Poundian landscape littered with broken statues.” – Poetry Review