Richard Price (poet)

Richard Price (born 1966) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include "Tube Shelter Perspective" (Southfields, 1993), "Sense and a Minor Fever" (Vennel Press, 1993), "Marks & Sparks" (Akros, 1995), "Hand Held" (Akros, 1997), "Perfume & Petrol Fumes" (Diehard, 1999), "gifthorse" (with the book artist Ronald King, Circle Press, 1999), "Frosted, melted" (Diehard, 2002), "Lucky Day" (Carcanet Press, 2005), "Earliest Spring Yet" (Landfill, 2006), "Greenfields" (Carcanet Press, 2007), and the artist's book "little but often", with Ronald King (Circle Press, 2007).

In the 1990s he co-edited the poetry magazines "Gairfish" (with W. N. Herbert), "Verse" (with Robert Crawford, Henry Hart, David Kinloch, and others) and "Southfields" (with Raymond Friel). At this time he also ran the poetry publisher Vennel Press with Leona Medlin, publishing books by W.N. Herbert, Elizabeth James, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey, Medlin and Price themselves, and others. He was one of the group associated with Informationist poetry, coining the phrase. He introduced Informationist ideas in 1991 in the magazine "Interference" and, later, in his introduction to the anthology of Informationist poetry "Contraflow on the Superhighway", co-edited with Herbert (Gairfish and Southfields, 1994). [Daniel O'Rourke (ed. and intro.) "Dream State: The New Scottish Poets", ed. Daniel O'Rourke (Polygon, 1994), pp.xxx-xxxi]

He is a lyrical writer and has collaborated with musicians as a vocalist in the band Mirabeau.

He currently edits the magazine "Painted, spoken". [Archived at [http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/index.asp?id=14 poetrymagazines.org] ] [ [http://www.ijsl.stir.ac.uk/issue2/price%20review.htm Fiona Wilson, "For Your Information: Getting the News From "Painted, Spoken" in International Journal of Scottish Literature, 2 (Spring/Summer 2007) ] ]

His translations include the Guillaume Apollinaire poems in "Eftirs / Afters" (with Donny O'Rourke, Au Quai, 1996) and the Louise Labé poems in "Lute Variations" (Rack Press, 2005). He has also published a study of the Scottish novelist Neil M. Gunn, "The Fabulous Matter of Fact: The Poetics of Neil M. Gunn" (Edinburgh University Press, 1991) and a set of linked short stories "A Boy in Summer" (11:9, 2002). With David Kinloch he co-edited "La Nouvelle Alliance: influences francophone sur la littérature écossaise moderne" (Ellug, 2000) and with James McGonigal he co-edited "The Star You Steer By: Basil Bunting and British Modernism" (Rodopi, 2000).

He is Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library, London. Exhibitions he has curated include "Ted Hughes: The Page is Printed" (2004) based on the Library's Hughes collections [ [http://www.bl.uk/collections/britirish/modbrihughes.html The British Library: Ted Hughes Collections] ] and "The Possibility of Poetry: From Migrant magazine to artists' books" (2007) [ [http://www.bl.uk/news/2007/pressrelease20070119.html The British Library: The Possibility of Poetry (Press Release)] ] . He has written on the history of the modern literary magazine in the United Kingdom, co-authoring with David Miller "British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of 'Little Magazines"' (British Library, 2006). [ [http://shop.bl.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/BritishLibrary/ISBN_0712349413/86628 "British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of 'Little Magazines" (British Library, 2006)] ]

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