Declan Ryan

Declan Ryan’s first collection, Crisis Actor, will be published by Faber & Faber in 2023.

Articles

A Down-and-Out but Amusing Character: On Alex Harvey’s “Song Noir”
Dec Ryan reviews Alex Harvey’s “Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles.”
Declan RyanDec 9, 2022
Feeling Versus Argument: On Tom Conaghan’s “Reverse Engineering”
Declan Ryan reviews Tom Conaghan’s anthology of stories and author interviews, “Reverse Engineering.”
Declan RyanJul 12, 2022
- Fiction
Like Standing Stones: On Sam Buchan-Watts’s “Path Through Wood” and Henri Cole’s “Blizzard”
Declan Ryan finds new tenderness and defiance in recent collections by Sam Buchan-Watts and Henri Cole.
Declan RyanMay 6, 2022
- Poetry
A Solo on the Pipe: On Julia Copus’s “This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew”
Declan Ryan gleans new insights on poet Charlotte Mew from “This Rare Spirit,” a biography by Julia Copus.
Declan RyanNov 11, 2021
- Biography & Autobiography
- Poetry
Collapsing Time: On John Fuller’s “Asleep and Awake”
Declan Ryan is enchanted by “Asleep and Awake,” a collection of poetry by John Fuller.
Declan RyanApr 11, 2021
- Poetry
Summoned to the Stand: On Erica McAlpine’s “The Poet’s Mistake”
Declan Ryan vets “The Poet’s Mistake” by Erica McAlpine.
Declan RyanFeb 24, 2021
- Literary Criticism
- Poetry
On Derek Mahon
Declan Ryan celebrates the great Irish poet Derek Mahon, who passed away in October of this year.
Declan RyanDec 5, 2020
- Poetry
“To Hell with Neatnesses”: On Eley Williams’s “The Liar’s Dictionary”
Declan Ryan is truly impressed by “The Liar’s Dictionary,” a debut novel by Eley Williams.
Declan RyanOct 18, 2020
- Fiction

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