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Riley is the author of more than ten substantial books of poetry, and many
small-press booklets and pamphlets. His selected poems, entitled Passing Measures (Carcanet), was published in 2000.
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Peter Riley: EXCAVATIONS |
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£ 9.00A collection of 181 prose poems, arising from the
author’s meditations on 19th century excavation reports of prehistoric
burial mounds in the north of England. Each may be felt as a kind of
song and dance (like the choric ode of Greek tragedy) performed to
celebrate persons so distant as to be unknowable, but whose traces
retain significant particulars, and invoking thus the immense
accumulative continuity of deaths, and so of lives. 2004, 1-874400-26-1, 218pp , price: £9 |
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Peter Riley: DISTANT POINTSThis book is now out of print. The contents have been revised and included in Excavations - see above. 1995, 1-874400-06-7, 64pp, OP |
