... To Denise Riley is a transnational and transgenerational poetry anthology to celebrate the work, contribution, and influence of one of our major poets and foremost philosophers, Denise Riley. It includes work from ninety-four authors; each has gifted an individual contribution inspired by Rileys work in some form, be it in the fields of art history, political philosophy, poetics or creative writing; all are offered in tribute to the different spaces and ways in which Riley's work opens new possibilities for its readers.
The book has been prepared as a surprise collective gift by the editors, Ágnes Lehóczky and Zoë Skoulding, and publisher, Boiler House Press. Announced to co-incide with her 70th birthday, it will be presented at an event in her honour in April and published later, in July. It is available for pre-order direct from publisher from April. Proceeds will be donated to a charity of Riley's choosing.
Sophie Robinson teaches Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and is the author of A and The Institute of Our Love in Disrepair. Recent work has appeared in n+1, The White Review, Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Ploughshares and BOMB Magazine. Tim Atkins is an internationally-published and reviewed poet and translator. He is the author of many volumes, including To Repel Ghosts, 1001 Sonnets, and Horace. His 600-page Petrarch Collected Atkins was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2014, and was a selected book of the year on the widely-read American literary site Salon.com . Folklore was one of the Daily Telegraphs poetry books of the year for 2008. His work has been anthologised in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, Fabers The Thunder Mutters, and Foil. Since 2000, he has been editor of the online poetry journal onedit, which was selected by The British Library as one of the key poetry websites in its poetry archive. In 2013, he was a member of the summer faculty at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Other projects include the creation of a sound installation for the Science Museums Exponential Horn show: this was also broadcast on Resonance FM. His play The World's Furious Song Flows Through My Skirt was performed at the PolyPly Innovative Writing series and was published by Stoma in June 2014. A celebration of his work at which 24 writers read took place at The Rich Mix Arts Centre in East London in July 2014. A film collaboration with Graeme Maguire, Mother, was a finalist at the Rabbit Heart Poetry Festival. His work has been translated into Latvian, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, and Catalan. A novel, The Bath-Tub, is due out from Boiler House in 2018. Emily Critchley has poetry collections with Barque, Intercapillary, Corrupt, Holdfire, Torque, Oystercatcher, Dusie, Bad and Arehouse presses and a selected writing: Love / All That / & OK (Penned in the Margins, 2011). She has also published critical articles on poetry, philosophy and feminism and is the editor of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street, 2016). Critchley is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London. Ben Borek grew up in South London. He has lived in Warsaw for several years and has read his work all over Europe. Colin Herd is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. His previous collections include too ok (BlazeVOX, 2011), Glovebox (Knives, Forks and Spoons, 2013) and Oberwilding - with SJ Fowler (Austrian Cultural Forum, 2015). In 2016, he was part of a team who organised Outside-in / Inside-out: A Festival of Outside and Subterranean Poetry in Glasgow. www.colinherd.com / @colinjherd
Jeff Hilson wrote stretchers (Reality Street 2006), Bird bird (Landfill 2009) and In The Assarts (Veer 2010). He also edited The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street 2008). He runs Xing the Line reading series in London and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton. Marianne Morris studied literature at Cambridge University, and has a PhD in poetry from Dartington College/Falmouth. Her first full-length collection, The On All Said Things Moratorium, was published in 2013. She lives in Toronto, where she was born.
