If you enjoy listening to the LRB podcast, then you'll probably enjoy reading the LRB.

You can subscribe to the LRB from just one pound per issue.

To find out more, go to LRB.combe.

Forwards slash, listen.

That's LRB.m.M.E.

Forward slash listen.

Or click on the link in the description below this episode.

Hello and welcome to the London Review of Books podcast. I'm Joanna Leary, an editor at the LRB and I'm joined today by Angie Malinko, who has a piece in the most recent issue of the paper

on the work of Denise Riley.

It's a review of Riley's selected poems, 1976 to 2016, and for Brooklyn essay, Time Lived

Without Its Flow, both published by Biggadour. And she, thank you so much for making the time to

speak with me. The review covers a lot of

ground. It's an overview, even a celebration of Riley's career. And at the centre of your essay,

there's a wonderful analysis of Riley's most celebrated poem, A Part Song, which brought her work

to mainstream attention when it was first published in the pages

of the LRB in 2012. It went not to win the Ford Prize for Best Single Poem later that year.

But for those still unfamiliar with Riley, A Part Song, is a long elegy for her adult son, Jacob,

who died from undiagnosed cardiomyopathy in 2008. We can speak about

this poem in detail a little bit later, because I do. We probably both do believe it's one of the

most powerful elegies in the language. But it occurs to me that Raleigh's achievements as a poet, as a feminist, as

philosophy of language in a career that spans well over 40 years have sort of been eclipsed

by the success of a part song and have said something back, the 2016 collection of which

...