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]
↑ 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.
↑ Poetry Foundation (8 May 2019). "Denise Riley". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
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