Denise Riley. Courtesy Fortnightly Review.
Denise Riley (born 1948) is an English poet and academic philosopher.
Life[]
Riley was born in Carlisle, Cumbria.
She was formerly writer in residence at Tate Gallery London, and has held fellowships at Brown University and at Birkbeck, University of London. She began to be published in the 1970s. Among her poetry publications is Penguin Modern Poets 10, with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair (1996). [1] She lives in London.
She was professor of literature with philosophy at the University of East Anglia, and is A.D. White professor-at-large at Cornell University. [2]
She is not related to poet Peter Riley.
Writing[]
Her poetry is remarkable for its paradoxical interrogation of selfhood within the lyric mode. [3] Her critical writings on motherhood, women in history, "identity", and philosophy of language, are recognised as an important contribution to feminism and contemporary philosophy.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Marxism for Infants. Cambridge, UK: Street Editions, 1977.
- No Fee (with Wendy Mulford). Cambridge, UK: Street Editions, 1979.
- Dry Air. London: Virago: 1985.
- Stair Spirit. Cambridge, UK: Equipage, 1992.
- Mop Mop Georgette: New and selected poems, 1986-1993. London: Reality Street, 1993.
- Four Falling. Cambridge, UK: P. Riley, 1993.
- Penguin Modern Poets 10 (by Douglas Oliver, Denise Riley, & Iain Sinclair). London & New York: Penguin, 1996.
- Selected Poems. London: Reality Street, 2000.
Non-fiction[]
- War in the Nursery: Theories of the child and mother. London: Virago, 1983.
- "Am I That Name?": Feminism and the category of "women" in history. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1988; Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1988.
- The Words of Selves: Identification, solidarity, irony. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
- The Force of Language (Denise Riley with Jean-Jacques Lecercle). Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Impersonal Passion: Language as affect. Durham, NC< & London: Duke University Press, 2005.
- Time Lived, Without Its Flow. London: Capsule Editions, 2012.
Edited[]
- Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970-1991. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Macmillan, 1992.
- The American Experience: A sourcebook in early American history (edited with Dona Reaser). Needham Heights, MA: Ginn, 1992.
- The Language, Discourse, Society Reader (edited with Stephen Heath & Colin MacCabe). Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Writer Erin Soros reads from Say Something Back by Denise Riley
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
Audio / video[]
- Denise Riley: Reading from her poems (CD). London: The Poetry Archive, 2005.[4]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ British Council Writers Directory: [1] Retrieved 15.10.2011.
- ↑ Birkbeck, University of London staff: [2] Retrieved 17.10.2011.
- ↑ Tony Lopez, Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry, Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2006, 123-4; see also Christine Kennedy and David Kennedy, "'Expectant Contexts': Corporeal and desiring spaces in Denise Riley's Poetry," Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 1, 1 (2009): 79-101.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Search results = au:Denise Riley, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Feb. 25, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Denise Riley b. 1948 at the Poetry Foundation
- Denise Riley (United Kingdom, 1948) at Poetry International (6 poems)
- Audio / video
- About
- Denise Riley at the British Council
- Denise Riley biography at the European Graduate School
- "Denise Riley," PN Review
- Denise Riley at Griffin Poetry Prize
- "Denise Riley and the force of bereavement" at Fortnightly Review
- Denise Riley and the 'awkward lyric'" at Fortnightly Review
- In conversation with Denise Riley, PN Review
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