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Title: Selected Poems
Author: RILEY DENISE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 08/10/2019
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
‘Wide-ranging, sometimes anguished, her poems are fascinating and often beautiful, and certainly more than usually thought-provoking.’ <b><i>Guardian</b></i>
Denise Riley has pursued her singular path with a determined disregard for poetic fashion: a poet of immense musical gifts and formal skill, as happy in traditional forms as experimental, her non-alignment with any ‘tribe’ has led to a rich and various poetry that, while densely allusive and intellectually uncompromising, remains emotionally open towards the reader at the most profound level. <b><i>Say Something Back</b></i>, her lyric meditation on bereavement, won Riley universal acclaim – and a wide and long-deserved readership. Her <b><i>Selected Poems </b></i>offers a generous overview of a working life which has taken in philosophy, feminism, literary history, song and aphorism – and within which the old certainties are interrogated and shaken at every turn. Hers is a voice through which we come to better understand one another, the meaning of our time here, and the nature of human communication itself.
ISBN: 9781529017120
Dimension: 197mm X 153mm
Pages: 160
Edition: 01