Past event -
Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents: A Reading with Denise Riley
Denise Riley lives in London. Her writing includes poetry, the history of ideas, and philosophy. Among her prose books are 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), The Force of Language (with Jean-Jacques Lecercle; 2004), Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (2005) and Time Lived, Without Its Flow {2012, 2019). Some poetry collections are Marxism for Infants (1977), Dry Air (1985), Mop Mop Georgette (1993), Say Something Back (2016), Selected Poems (2019), and Lurex ( forthcoming, 2022).
'A natal error.
Steadied by pamphlets
and brilliance of the babies.
In leaping joy alone.
Why do some will themselves to stone.
Now is it time for night to fall.’
This is an in-person event but you can also join us online (with preregistering): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/205293798277
Audio recording available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLH5CWCaJCU