Lurex by Denise Riley
PBS Spring Special Commendation 2022 Victoria Kennefick  These landscapes are charged

 These landscapes are charged with invisible energies and inhabited by the people

‘melodious offal

He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish

confronted with moments of vision or almost vision

questioning

Lurex by Denise Riley <b><br>PBS Spring Special Commendation 2022</b> Victoria Kennefick  These landscapes are chargedA brilliant outing from one of the finest poets currently working in the English language. This is at once a sharply political and deeply personal book which explores just that intersection. Wide ranging, sometimes anguished, her poems are fascinating and often beautiful, and certainly more than usually thought provoking Guardian"Shes one of the best poets around."Simon Armitage"It sometimes seems that contemporary poetry divides into two sorts those