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