Say Something Back and Time Lived, Without Its Flow: A beautifully moving collection of writings on grief - Couverture souple

Riley, Denise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1037428846 ISBN 13 : 9781037428845

Editeur : Macmillan, 2026

Synopsis

‘She’s one of the best poets around’ Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

Part poetry collection, part consolation, Say Something Back and Time Lived, Without Its Flow collects Denise Riley’s moving documents of loss and grief together for the first time.

Rocked by the horrific experience of maternal grief, Denise Riley wrote the much-celebrated Say Something Back, in which the poet-philosopher contemplates the natural world and physical law, and considers what it means to invoke those who are absent. These are poems which expand our sense of human speech and what it can mean, of what is drawn forth from us when we address our dead.

These lyric poems and elegies are accompanied by the beautiful, unflinching Time Lived, Without Its Flow. Diary entries written after receiving news of her adult son’s death are woven into a life portrait of loss. A ruminative postscript to these diaries follows, in which Riley examines the experience with a philosopher’s precision, mapping through it a literature of consolation.

Published in a single volume for the first time, Say Something Back and Time Lived Without Its Flow offers with remarkable grace and insight kind counsel to all those living in the wake of grief.

Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Denise Riley lives in London. Her prose books include War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983), ‘Am I That Name?’ Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History (1988), The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony (2000), The Force of Language (with Jean-Jacques Lecercle; 2004), Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (2005), Time Lived, Without Its Flow (2012; revised edition 2019) and A Chorus of Ears: On the ‘Voice of the Poem’, 2026. Her poetry collections include Marxism for Infants (1977), Dry Air (1985), Mop Mop Georgette (1993), Penguin Modern Poets series 2, vol 10 (with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair; 1996), Selected Poems (2000, revised 2019), Say Something Back (2016), Penguin Modern Poets series 3, vol 6 (with Maggie Nelson and Claudia Rankine; 2017) and Lurex (2022).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1037428846
• ISBN 13: 9781037428845
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible