Selected Poems

'Postmodern poetry discovers its classical voice - Her monologues have a fragmentary quality, as if spoken in a post-Poundian landscape littered with broken statues' - Michael Hulse, Poetry Review. 'Abrupt, pared-back, given to juxtapositions that reshape the urban world her poetry evokes with satirical insight and a dry wicked humour, Ryan's poetry is no easy thing... More the demotic of a dystopia than the vernacular of a republic, Ryan's use of language - its truncation, tautness and drama - cuts equally across the body politic and the scene of poetry. Throughout all of this, her humour, insight and tight music both test and engage the reader. She gives street-learning a classical voice; post-modernism, experience' - Michael Brennan, Poetry International Web.