Denise Riley

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Denise Riley (born 1948,

Carlisle
) is an English poet and philosopher.

Life

Riley lives in London. She was educated for a year at

New Hall, Cambridge.[1] She was, until recently, Professor of Literature with Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and is currently A. D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University.[2]

Her visiting positions also included a writer in Residence at the Tate Gallery in London and visiting fellow at

Birkbeck College in the University of London.[3] She was formerly a Writer in Residence at Tate Gallery London, and has held fellowships at Brown University and at Birkbeck, University of London
.

Among her poetry publications are Penguin Modern Poets 10, with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair (1996).[4]

Work

Her poetry interrogates self-hood within the lyrical mode.[5] Her critical writings are on motherhood, women in history, "identity", and philosophy of language.

Her poetry collections include Marxism for Infants (1977); the volume No Fee (1979), with Wendy Mulford; Dry Air (1985); Stair Spirit (1992); Mop Mop Georgette (1993); Selected Poems (2000); Say Something Back (2016), which was nominated for a Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection; and Lurex (2022). Riley’s non-fiction prose includes War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983); 'Am I That Name?': Feminism and the Category of Women in History (1988); The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000); and Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (2005).[6]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Poetry:

  • Marxism for Infants, Cambridge, UK: Street Editions, 1977.
  • No Fee (with Wendy Mulford), Cambridge, UK: Street Editions, 1978.
  • Dry Air, London: Virago: 1985,
    ISBN 0-86068-539-X
    .
  • Mop Mop Georgette: New and Selected Poems 1986-1993, London: Reality Street Editions, 1993,
    ISBN 1-874400-04-0
    .
  • Penguin Modern Poets 10 (with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair), Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1996.
  • Denise Riley: Selected Poems, London: Reality Street, 2000.
  • Say Something Back, London: Picador, 2016.
  • Szantung, Lodz: Dom Literatury, 2019 (English-Polish bilingual edition, selected and translated by Jerzy Jarniewicz)
    ISBN 978-83-66318-04-5
    .
  • Selected Poems, London: Picador 2019
    ISBN 978-1529017120
  • Lurex, London: Picador 2022
    ISBN 978-1529078138

Non-fiction:

References

  1. ^ "Denise Riley". www.miloszfestival.pl. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  2. ^ Birkbeck, University of London staff: "Professor Denise Riley — Department of History, Classics and Archaeology". Archived from the original on 3 August 2010. Retrieved 17 October 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Denise Riley | Forward Arts Foundation". www.forwardartsfoundation.org. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  4. ^ British Council Writers Directory: "Denise Riley | British Council Literature". Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Poetry Foundation (8 May 2019). "Denise Riley". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  7. ^ Alison Flood (1 October 2012). "Jorie Graham takes 2012 Forward prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  8. ^ "Denise Riley nominated for 2016 Forward prize".
  9. ^ "Denise Riley on 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist".

External links

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