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This chapter considers how Denise Riley’s poetry and philosophy charge many of Graham’s apolitical language games with a new urgency and irony – particularly when refracted through a gendered self-consciousness which critiques harmful linguistic structures. Riley’s work is shown to be lyrically attuned, throughout her oeuvre, to poetry as listening. A close listening to Graham is traced at implicit and explicit levels of Riley’s most self-conscious lyrics—from ‘Affections of the Ear’ and her reflections on rhyme to Say Something Back and Lurex—which finds its clearest articulation in her 2024 Clark Lectures.

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‘Unquiet as a Talkative Ear’: Graham and Denise Riley

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    2025年

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  • Sam Buchan-Watts

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This chapter considers how Denise Riley’s poetry and philosophy charge many of Graham’s apolitical language games with a new urgency and irony – particularly when refracted through a gendered self-consciousness which critiques harmful linguistic structures. Riley’s work is shown to be lyrically attuned, throughout her oeuvre, to poetry as listening. A close listening to Graham is traced at implicit and explicit levels of Riley’s most self-conscious lyrics—from ‘Affections of the Ear’ and her reflections on rhyme to Say Something Back and Lurex—which finds its clearest articulation in her 2024 Clark Lectures.