Selected Poems by Denise Riley
PBS Winter Recommendation 2019 Finuala Dowling from a mid-life flight from

from a mid-life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future

that feeds a longing/desire/determination to write in the Mamiaith(Mother tongue) that she speaks

remaining in the mind long after reading

She has been Poet in Residence for Open Garden Squares at various London locations and was a finalist in the Poetry Rivals National Slam 2015

— Emily Dickinson

Selected Poems by Denise Riley <b><br>PBS Winter Recommendation 2019</b> Finuala Dowling from a mid-life flight fromDenise 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 Something Back, her lyric meditation on bereavement, won