On Denise Riley
The LRB Podcast
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The Distinction Between Poetry and Prose
A part song is first, but it bores its title and partly its structure from a form of unaccompanied choral music. Maybe it would be useful to listen to Denise read some of this poem. We have a recording which you can find on the L.R.V. website of Denise reading a part song in its entirety from 2012. Neither my note nor my critique of it will save us one eye-oater. The thought rears up, fix in your mind this may be final glimpse of her. Yes, lightning could. I make this note of dread, I register it. But little song, don't sow instruct yourself for no one hanging around to hear you,. They
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