Table of Contents

Half/9, Extremities/11, Hothouse/13, Mallee Root/14, Meat/15, On-line/16, The Bower/19, The Peacocks/20, March/24, 'Cambridge considered as the Cocos & Keeling Islands'/26, Dublin/27, Dalkey/28, Avowal/30, Kin/31, Closure/33, Cycle/34, Yellow Roses/35, Holy Island/37, Castle Hill/38, Exchange/39, Two Views/40, Chandler Sonnet/41, Two after Rodin/42, Cranach's Venus/45, Hyacinths/46, Hydrangeas/48, Liebchen/52, In the absence of hair/55, Clinical/57, 'Joseph's Coat'/58, A Preservation/60, Wasp Diary/62, Green/69, Against the grain/71, She gives/73, She takes away/75, Piano/77, Outside the glasshouse/78, Iris Poems/79, Landing/83, Homecoming/84, Moreton Bay Figs/85, Regeneration/88, The Last Orchid/90, Oleander/92, Fragile Cycles/93, Cowslip Orchids/95, Metaphysical/99, Australia/100, Biographical note/103

About the Author

Tracy Ryan was born in Western Australia but has also lived in England and in the USA. She has worked in libraries, book-selling, editing and community journalism, and has taught at various universities. She is especially interested in foreign languages and translation. She has two children.

Reviews

"Hothouse is a collection of intense poems which explore with great precision the ever shifting and precarious boundaries between self and the world. Sometimes Tracy Ryan reminds me a little of Sylvia Plath - sometimes she reminds me a little of the strength and savagery of Gig Ryan, but mostly she is her own self, dancing with a language forged in talent and courage." Dorothy Hewett (Australian Book Review)"