Denise Riley: Say Something Back. This collection contains Riley’s epic and expansive lyric poem ‘A Part Song’, as well as shorter meditations on the place of the human in the natural world. She is concerned with the laws of physics and how the energy of a lost loved one can be evoked through memory. The poet forces us to examine pieces of the world that we’d rather shy away from in doing so creates incredibly powerful stanza; ‘Flame-like, this liver, slow-cooking the stomach’s stuff/ Down to a blood like juice. Not boiling it dry to char it/ Or simmering it to gruel – if the liver’s temper is right.’ Delicious


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Add to Calendar Europe/Paris Denise Riley: Say Something Back. This collection contains Riley’s epic and expansive lyric poem ‘A Part Song’, as well as shorter meditations on the place of the human in the natural world. She is concerned with the laws of physics and how the energy of a lost loved one can be evoked through memory. The poet forces us to examine pieces of the world that we’d rather shy away from in doing so creates incredibly powerful stanza; ‘Flame-like, this liver, slow-cooking the stomach’s stuff/ Down to a blood like juice. Not boiling it dry to char it/ Or simmering it to gruel – if the liver’s temper is right.’ Delicious

Denise Riley: Say Something Back.

This collection contains Riley’s epic and expansive lyric poem ‘A Part Song’, as well as
shorter meditations on the place of the human in the natural world. She is concerned with
the laws of physics and how the energy of a lost loved one can be evoked through memory.
The poet forces us to examine pieces of the world that we’d rather shy away from in doing
so creates incredibly powerful stanza; ‘Flame-like, this liver, slow-cooking the stomach’s
stuff/ Down to a blood like juice. Not boiling it dry to char it/ Or simmering it to gruel – if the
liver’s temper is right.’ Delicious.
#deniseriley #picadorpoetry #nationalpoetryday #Libtryptich #verydeliciousprettydisgusting

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Denise Riley: Say Something Back.

This collection contains Riley’s epic and expansive lyric poem ‘A Part Song’, as well as
shorter meditations on the place of the human in the natural world. She is concerned with
the laws of physics and how the energy of a lost loved one can be evoked through memory.
The poet forces us to examine pieces of the world that we’d rather shy away from in doing
so creates incredibly powerful stanza; ‘Flame-like, this liver, slow-cooking the stomach’s
stuff/ Down to a blood like juice. Not boiling it dry to char it/ Or simmering it to gruel – if the
liver’s temper is right.’ Delicious.
#deniseriley #picadorpoetry #nationalpoetryday #Libtryptich #verydeliciousprettydisgusting

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