Richard Price (poet)

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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).^[1]

He currently edits the magazine Painted, spoken.^[2] ^[3]

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^[4] and The Possibility of Poetry: From Migrant magazine to artists' books (2007)^[5]. 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).^[6]