Selected Poems av Denise Riley

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<p>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. <i>Say Something Back</i>, her lyric meditation on bereavement, won Riley universal acclaim – and a wide and long-deserved readership. Her <i>Selected Poems </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.</p><p>‘Wide-rang