Selected Poems by Denise Riley
PBS Winter Recommendation 2019 Finuala Dowling Foley’s writing has all the

Foley’s writing has all the ingredients of a good conversation – interesting topics

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

and who we are becoming

Robert Bridges — along with some newer and less well-known poetic voices

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

Selected Poems by Denise Riley <b><br>PBS Winter Recommendation 2019</b> Finuala Dowling Foley’s writing has all theDenise 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