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Richard Reisner

Richard Reisner reviews ‘Selected Poems 1971-1982’ by Pamela Brown, ‘Manners of an Astronaut’ by Gig Ryan and ‘She Moves Mountains’ by Colleen Burke

June 1985, no. 71 30 June 1985
All three poets use a personal voice to summon forth their immediate universe. Ryan and Brown are very much entrenched in their respective sub-cultures whilst Burke is essentially the polemicist, the observer of life in her native Newtown. Ryan’s collection is permeated with the language of a very bold imagination: “As a brain leaks out from its tiny emotional field”; “Smile like a white ... (read more)