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University of Cambridge. University of Sussex.
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Denise Riley
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Her poetry is remarkable for its paradoxical interrogation of selfhood within the lyric mode. She was, until recently, Professor of Literature with Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and is currently A. Doctorate. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University. She was formerly Writer in Residence at Tate Gallery London, and has held fellowships at Brown University and at Birkbeck, University of London.
Among her poetry publications is Penguin Modern Poets 10, with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair (1996).
She lives in London. She is not related to the poet Peter Riley. 2012 Forward Poetry Prize, Best Single Poem, "A Participant Song".
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Her critical writings on motherhood, women in history, "identity", and philosophy of language, are recognised as an important contribution to feminism and contemporary philosophy.
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