RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Avatars of the speaking "I": Denise Riley's meditations on poetry and identity A1 Sánchez-Pardo González, Esther K1 poesía de Cambridge K1 Denise Riley K1 “yo” lírico K1 identidad AB This paper takes as its point of departure the importance and even urgency of addressing issues of identity and the lyric “I” within contemporary poetry in the UK, which have been matters of concern for a new generation of poets. In Denise Riley’s work, the dialectic between the “I” and the “other,” between poet and community remains largely unresolved. Her poems strive to create a space that shows some cohesion in terms of its apprehension of gender’s centrality to modes of poetic practice, authority and tradition. Throughout this paper, we will try to address the status of the speaking subject, largely a philosophicalquestion that gravitates around the status of the self, and the unfinished conversation between the “I” and its “others,” in a reading of Riley’s important collection Mop Mop Georgette: New and Selected Poems 1986-1993, and her Selected Poems (2000) among other works. PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones SN 0211-5913 YR 2010 FD 2010 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/13389 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/13389 LA en DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 07-may-2024