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On the subject of Denise Riley, SoFi (formerly Southfields magazine), editor Richard Price, is devoting a forthcoming issue to her work, including an essay of mine based on the talk I gave at the "Assembling Alternatives" conference: "The grace of being common". Of the articles that I know on her work, my favourite is the one by Nigel Wheale, although it's a few years ago now. DR dsn't like poet crit. and obviously the important thing is to read the work. It's all in there, including her "manifestos", such as: The ambition to not be particular speaks 'I cannot tell what gives each voice its tune - some furious tenderness of buried words or interference from the streets and their hazardous crying - but if for me some words must be exhumed out of their sunken heat they must be cooled to the grace of being common - so as to achieve my great colourlessness I dive into the broken brilliant world and float in it unindividuated, whitely' FP %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%