Tracy Ryan

If I held my whole kingdom in one hand and my son in the other, I would toss them both to the bottom of the sea before I would let them impede me. Sixteenth-century Princess Jeanne d'Albret is twice royal: her uncle is King of France, her father King of Navarre. She is small, she is often ill, yet she...

The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry is a comprehensive survey of the state's poets from the 19th century to today. Featuring work from 134 poets, and including the work of many WA Indigenous poets, this watershed anthology brings together the poems that have contributed to and defined the ways that Western Australians see themselves.

Two women from different worlds in Renaissance France cross paths in a way that changes both their lives. One is Marguerite de Navarre, a King's sister. Powerful, privileged, and widely admired, Marguerite must nonetheless marry where she is told to, regardless of her feelings. Despite the thrilling new ideas of religious reform causing upheaval in France, she must toe the...

The unknowable is Tracy Ryan's terrain; these are poems of keen appraisal and survival demonstrating an extraordinary range and held tight by a cohesive vision. Each poem makes clear the poet's preoccupation with mortality. If the argument is with death – that cold cross-examiner – these are poems which respond with life. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in...

Scar Revision - surgically minimising the effects of scars - is the powerful central image of Tracy Ryan's highly accomplished new collection. Both formally adventurous and movingly personal, these poems offer vivid accounts of how we survive and 'rewrite' literal and symbolic scars, and of regeneration through the risks of family.

Tracy Ryan's latest collection of poems is full of intimate intensity and clear vision, each poem wrought with consummate skill by one of Australia's most gifted poets (Marion May Campbell). Water is contained in these poems in many different ways - from the water filling a second-hand cooler in an old farmhouse to ocean riptides and impassive dams; from swimming...

The poems in Rose Interior move between the inside and outside of everything they touch, from the domestic scene, both cosy and claustrophobic, to the social and ecological settings we must all answer for. Poems from Ireland, Switzerland, and Australia consider life at home in the personal sense: through the body, childhood memories, and family houses, "a room within a...