Declan Ryan’s first collection of poems, Crisis Actor, was published in 2023. Photograph © Chris Larkin
‘Some of these bigger characters, Muhammad Ali or Lennox Lewis, they can become these mythologic, mythological characters, or these godlike figures.’Declan Ryan on contemporary boxing.
‘Honour, or anything approaching it, sits vanishingly low on the priority list.’Declan Ryan on boxing and the fight between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois.
