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Chorus of Ears

Denise Riley
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essay collection
forthcoming
guide to writing
how to write poetry
literary criticism
lyric poetry
philosophy
philosophy of language

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  • ISBN 9781035095964
  • Dimensions: 111 x 178mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jun 2026
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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‘One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language’ – The Sunday Times

A Chorus of Ears is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet from one of our greatest living English poets. Denise Riley contemplates how a poet's public persona can hold more significance than their actual poetry in the modern literary world. She reflects on how prize culture can transform criticism into a beauty contest, and limit our ability to meet the lyric on its own terms.

What might be discovered, Riley asks, if we liberate the poem from the person of the author? From where does its own voice spring? In allowing the poem to speak, what might we hear?

Including a foreword by leading poet and critic Don Paterson.

'One of the great poets of our time ' – New Statesman
About Denise Riley
Denise Riley is a critically acclaimed writer of both philosophy and poetry. She is currently Professor of the History of Ideas and of Poetry at UEA. Her visiting positions have included A.D. White Professor at Cornell University, Writer in Residence at the Tate Gallery in London, and Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck College in the University of London. She has taught philosophy, art history, poetics, and creative writing. She is the author of Say Something Back, Timed Lived, Without Its Flow and A Chorus of Ears. She lives in London.

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