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Note: current issue of London Review of Books (vol.20 no.18, 17 September 1998) has a review of John Welchman`s Invisible Colours: A Visual History of Titles, by one Denise Riley. Welchman works up a poetics of the title in modern painting; Riley applauds, up to a point, but worries that he seems intent upon replacing "the visual, with the merely literary." Ouch. It`s as good, as scholarly and as witty as readers of her poetry and her other prose would expect. Hints could be gleaned, at Riley`s own sets of attitudes towards naming; and why painting, and specific paintings, get in to her poems. all best robin %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%