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  • Say Something Back & Time Lived, Without Its Flow

    A moving meditation on grief and motherhood by one of Britain's most celebrated poets.The British poet Denise Riley is one of the finest and most individual writers at work in English today. With her striking musical gifts, she is as happy in traditional forms as experimental, and though her poetry has a kinship to that of the New York School, at heart she is unaligned with any tribe. A ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Chorus of Ears

    On 'the voice of the poem'

    by Denise Riley ...
    ‘One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language’ – The Sunday Times'As lively to the ear as prose can be' - Adam PietteA Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of our greatest living English poets. Denise Riley contemplates how a poet's public persona can hold more significance than their actual poetry in the modern literary world. ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Lurex

    by Denise Riley ...
    Series series
    A brilliant outing from one of the finest poets currently working in the English language. This is at once a sharply political and deeply personal book which explores just that intersection.‘Wide-ranging, sometimes anguished, her poems are fascinating and often beautiful, and certainly more than usually thought-provoking’ Guardian ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Backpockets

    by Denise Riley ...
    Backpockets is a story about the simple joys and pleasures in a little boys life. It is a time of childhood innocence that expresses a young boy's imagination and excitement with the simple props of nature. It is about memorable moments filled with the eagerness and the freshness of youth. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Selected Poems

    by Denise Riley ...
    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. Say ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Impersonal Passion

    Language as Affect

    by Denise Riley ...
    Denise Riley is renowned as a feminist theorist and a poet and for her remarkable refiguring of familiar but intransigent problems of identity, expression, language, and politics. In Impersonal Passion, she turns to everyday complex emotional and philosophical problems of speaking and listening. Her provocative meditations suggest that while the emotional power of language is impersonal, this ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    A Chorus of Ears

    On 'the voice of the poem'

    by Denise Riley ...
    Narrated by Denise Riley ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 53 min

    **‘One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language’ – *The Sunday TimesRead by the author, Denise Riley***A Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of the greatest living English poets. Originally delivered as a lecture series at Trinity College, Cambridge, in A Chorus of Ears Denise Riley meditates upon the emphasis we place upon the ... Read more

    $27.65 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Selected Poems

    by Denise Riley ...
    Narrated by Denise Riley ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 45 min

    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. Say ... Read more

    $16.58 CAD

  • Fit For a King

    This cookbook, created by New York Times, USA TODAY, and National Bestselling Authors, is inspired by the Kings of the Castle Standalone Series. It contains an interesting mix of cuisines from India, Italy, Southern USA, Africa, and many other places. Several authors from the series and their friends, have shared everything from childhood favorites to main meals that are sure to please the most ... Read more

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