"One of the things Modernism showed us was how to make a new relationship with, or find a new use for, the past or the contentious present, and for a writer who has been tut-tutted for subjectivity and emotional incorrectness — her ‘anger’ and her ‘sadness’ — there is an awful lot of the world in these poems, these epyllions or little epics that include history and history’s shards." Owen Richardson on Gig Ryan • Meanjin

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