A Chorus of Ears

This is a book which sets Riley alongside Virginia Woolf, confirming her as one of the most profound poetic thinkers of our time – Deryn Rees-Jones
Very occasionally, and always at the right time, an Angel of Poetry appears, holding up a light – Carol Ann Duffy, former UK Poet Laureate
A much-needed reminder of inspiration’s independence, A Chorus of Ears gently resets the coordinates of contemporary poetry away from the mechanical and literal-minded. My repeated thought on reading it was ‘Oh thank goodness for Denise Riley’ – Leontia Flynn
Daring intellectually and sensitively tuned to the interiority of the poem and its making. [A Chorus of Ears] asks us to think again about ‘voice’ in poetry, finding language to articulate the difficult borderland between an inner listening and the already said, the living and the dead – Linda Anderson, author of Elizabeth Bishop: Lines of Connection
One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language * The Sunday Times *
There is so much going on in these essays, the head spins: so much to learn and to take in, so bewilderingly febrile and supersubtle as they are, so refreshingly advocative of an exuberant innerness that preserves secrecy and privacy, allowing in more quiet air to breathe within the solidity of the poem as ‘secreted life’ and transpersonal voice. – Adam Piette * Blackbox Manifold *
Her strengths are so varied: notice one quality you admire, and another follows hard behind. Riley is an enormously gifted writer – Fiona Sampson * The Guardian *
Wondrous … one of the great poets of our time * New Statesman *
An extraordinary thinker … Riley’s clarity of vision and expression is revelatory. * Declan Ryan *

Denise Riley is a critically acclaimed writer of both philosophy and poetry. She is currently Professor of the History of Ideas and of Poetry at UEA. Her visiting positions have included A.D. White Professor at Cornell University, Writer in Residence at the Tate Gallery in London, and Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck College in the University of London. She has taught philosophy, art history, poetics, and creative writing. She is the author of Say Something Back and lives in London.

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