Record ID:
36116513 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1956
  • Leicester, England
Associated with:
  • Australia
Fields of activity:
  • music
Occupations:
  • poet musician
Used for:
  • Ryan, Elizabeth Anna Martina, 1956-
Notes:
  • Gig Ryan was born in England in 1956, the family returning to Australia in 1957. In 1974 she won a Victorian poetry prize and was published soon after. In 1974 she helped found a feminist literary journal, Luna. She was a joint winner of the Anne Elder award in 1981, has published numerous poetry collections and won the C.J. Dennis award in 1999 for Pure and Applied. Ryan has been a critic and freelance book reviewer and since 2001 has been the poetry editor for The Age. As well as poetry Ryan is also a singer/songwriter, forming a band Disband with two other women.
  • WWW Australian Poetry Library, 4/12/2014 http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/ryan-gig
Local system number:
  • (VSL)1597176
  • abv02544454
  • 000001122909
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng VSL rda
Authentication code:
  • anuc