Poetry and Conversation with Sandeep Parmar and Denise Riley

Join us in the School of English on 25th October for an evening of poetry and conversation with Denise Riley and Sandeep Parmar. Tickets available here.

Denise Riley has written War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother [1983], ‘Am I That Name?’ Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History [1988], The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony(2000), The Force of Language (with Jean-Jacques Lecercle; 2004), Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (2005) and Time Lived, Without Its Flow [2012]. Her poetry collections include Marxism for Infants (1977), Dry Air (1985), Mop Mop Georgette (1993), Penguin Modern Poets series 2, vol 10 (with Douglas Oliver and Iain Sinclair; 1996), Selected Poems(2000), Say Something Back (2016) and Penguin Modern Poets series 3, vol 6 [with Maggie Nelson and Claudia Rankine; 2017]. She lives in London.

Sandeep Parmar is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool where she co-directs Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing. She holds a PhD from University College London and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her books include Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern, an edition of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet, 2011), and two books of her own poetry published by Shearsman: The Marble Orchard and Eidolon, winner of the Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection. She edited the Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard (Carcanet, 2016). Parmar’s essays and reviews have appeared widely (the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement), with ‘Not a British Subject: Race and Poetry in the UK) for The Los Angeles Review of Books (December 6, 2015) often cited as a flashpoint in contemporary critical and popular thought. Recently her essay on ‘Lyric Violence, the Nomadic Subject and the Fourth Space’ was the germ for the creative-critical experimental pamphlet Threads, with Bhanu Kapil and Nisha Ramayya as co-writers (Clinic, 2018). She is writing a novel about wheat, partly set during India’s Green Revolution in the 1960s. Sandeep Parmar is a BBC New Generation Thinker and regularly appears on Radio 3.