Scar Revision poems by Tracy Ryan Fremantle Press, 2008
						From the publisher's blurb: 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.
			Scar Revision opens with its title poem, an unusual but astute choice, as each subsequent poem harks back to it and the volume has a strong sense of cohesion as a result. There is a performative element to this strategy too, for the poem frames the book's concern with how scars and bruises inscribe the body with memory, and the extent to which individuals are defined by these inscriptions... Each of the poems in Scar Revision encounters a revenant of some description: the return of memory, of ghosts, of words... For Ryan, the scar presents us with a paradox, tying us to the past while signifying our break from it.                                                                  -- Jaya Savige, The Australian Literary Review
				Geoff Page reviews Scar Revision for Radio National's The Book Show:                                         read transcript here