|
ChronologyWinter 2019/20 sequence "The Owner of the Sea" is published in its entirety in PN Review, retelling the life of the Inuit female spirit Sedna August 2019 presents Windbreakers, Sea Eagles, and Anthrax on BBC Radio 4, featuring Price poems and interviews on location with residents in Wester Ross who live with the legacy of Gruinard Island. Produced by Peter McManus in Glasgow August 2019 poem "Three boys at the sea edge" is published in Times Literary Supplement July 2019 So Mayer and Price respond to Picasso's painting Guernica with new poems, event and filmed reflections, launching the Guernica Remakings exhibition at the National Poetry Library, London Autumn 2018 releases The World Brims first single of eponymous album with new band The Loss Adjustors. October 2018 begins to teach weekly Advanced Workshop at the Poetry School, London. September 2017 A Boy in Summer collection of short stories published as an eBook August 2017 a selection of his recorded poems, spanning all the Carcanet collections, appears on The Poetry Archive. Appears at the Edinburgh Book Festival as part of the Edwin Morgan Trust's translation project, led by Tom Pow, with Miguel Martins, Andreia Faria, Ricardo Marques and Jane McKie and Miriam Nash January 2017 Moon for Sale 2017 Sedna and the Fulmar artist's book by Ronald King, featuring half a dozen poems by Richard Price August 2016 Is This A Poem?, essays on poetry, artist's books and small presses October 2015 short film about Richard Price's work by Slovakian director Viera Cakanyova is premiered in Edinburgh July 2015 poem "A quiet river" is published in Times Literary Supplement November 2014 Becomes Head of Contemporary British Collections at the British Library July 2014 Tours Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland as part of the Month of Reading Festival April 2014 Gives keynote lecture at The Expanded Lyric conference, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Belfast November 2013 Small World wins Scottish Book Award for Poetry October 2013 Begins the Last Men on Mercury series of readings, touring 2013-14 with Iain Bamforth, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey appearing in Manchester, London, Geneva, Stasbourg and Glasgow and featuring guest poets including Lucy Burnett, Dorothy Lehane, Hannah Lowe, and Peter Manson July 2013 Going, going, gone artist's book with Ronald King about extinct and endangered animals March 2013 European Poet in Residence, Coimbra and Monsanto, Portugal November 2012 Small World published. "A work of genius" - Louise Welsh. Performs new piece "The Family Clay" at Contretemps club, Geneva July 2012 "Hedge Sparrows" chosen to represent United Kingdom in Olympics project The Written World. Recorded by Jim Broadbent for Radio Scotland and Radio 4. May 2012 "Armadillo" artist's print by Ronald King with new poem by Richard Price. February 2012 "I am greatly changed" Carol Rumens' Poem of the Week on the Guardian blog November 2011 Essay "War Damage: Four Poets of the First World War" (Apollinaire, Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen and David Bomberg) is published in Comparative Critical Studies. Organises and appears two days running in a collaboration with Vahni Capildeo, Giles Goodland, Jeff Hilson, Francesca Lisette, and Simon Smith at Whitechapel Gallery as guest of Leeds University's Wild Pansy Press. October 2011 Returns to University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, to give his first reading there since completing PhD in 1994. Work on second Mirabeau album underway. July 2011 Leads a one-day workshop on poetry of the body as a tutor at The Poetry School, London. Claims to have invented the "taku" (a haiku designed to be written on the body, and which must refer to the body part on which it is enscribed) and the "tennos", a ten line poem of fourteen syllables (an inside-out sonnet). May 2011 First Mirabeau album released, Golden Key. Also appears with Peter Gizzi, Simon Smith, David Herd, Nancy Gaffield and others at Sounds New Poetry Festival, Canterbury, alongside Arvo Part and Altera Veritas. April 2011 Tenth year of Painted, spoken is marked by reading with Isobel Dixon, David Kinloch and Peter McCarey at the Wheatsheaf, London November 2010 Appears with Isobel Dixon and Simon Barraclough in Have Poet Will Travel at the Travel Bookshop, Notting Hill. October 2010 Becomes Head of Content and Research Strategy at the British Library. September 2010 Collaborates with Simon Lewandowski on installation at the Gooden Gallery, Cambridge Heath. Appears at Southbank in his final Pyschopoetica performance. August 2010 The Island launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival, "a story of rare qualities that many writers aim for and few achieve. Read it -- it'll be one of the most beautiful nightmares you'll ever have." -- Toby Litt
July 2010 Appears at Latitude Festival as part of the Psychopoetica project. June 2010 Reads with Jo Shapcott at Wordsworth Trust event, Grasmere.
May 2010 Appears at Whitechapel Gallery in first of his Psychopoetica performances. March 2010 Appears in anthology Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets, ed. Roddy Lumsden. October 2009 Rays published. "These are fantastic poems of love and desire. Is Richard Price the best Scottish poet of recent years? I should think so." - David Wheatley Read and Hear More June 2009 Likestarlings collaboration with Luke Kennard. Judges inaugural Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Awards with Ian McMillan and Jackie Kay (winners were Oystercatcher Press and Elizabeth Burns). May 2009 Cartas de Ontem (selected poems, in English and Portuguese; translated by Virna Teixeira). Readings in Rio and Sao Paulo with grant from Thomas Wright Memorial Trust. Wake up and sleep, limited edition artist's book with etchings by Caroline Isgar, bound by Clare Bryan February 2009 RP a Judge for New Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2008 Greenfields shortlisted for Sundial Poetry Book of the Year. Contains "one of the great love poems in English in recent times" - Simon Smith, PN Review; "So: much to enjoy, much to think about." - Jane Routh, Stride. folded artist's book published from essence press. Forms band Mirabeau with Caroline Trettine. Collaborates with Simon Lewandowski on digital installation Hotel / Motel / Motet, winning commission to display at Hull Literary Festival 2007 Curates "The Possibility of Poetry: Migrant Press and the Book Arts in Britain", exhibition, British Library. Records session for Archive of the Now (mainly Earliest Spring Yet). Greenfields published and, with Ronald King, pop-up alphabet little but often 2006 Lute Variations, Earliest Spring Yet, British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000 (with David Miller); collaborates with Raymond Friel on new sister series to Painted, spoken, PS 2005 Lucky Day a Guardian Book of the Year; A BBC Radio Scotland Book of the Year; shortlisted for Whitbread Poetry Book of the Year, for Jerwood/Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and for Forward Felix Dennis First Collection Prize. The Mechanical Word, series of five artist’s books with Karen Bleitz. Editor, Best Scottish Poems 2005, for Scottish Poetry Library 2004 Curates "Ted Hughes: The Page is Printed", exhibition, British Library; appointed Head of Modern British Collections 2002 A Boy In Summer; Frosted, Melted 2001 Starts Painted, spoken magazine 2000 Renfrewshire in Old Photographs with Raymond Friel; Last issue of Southfields 1999 Gift Horse, artist's book with Ronald King; Perfume & Petrol Fumes 1997 Hand Held ; Protests at small-press exclusion from Paul Hamlyn Awards. Wins right to enter. Wins runner-up award. 1996 Marks & Sparks sells out. 2nd edition published 1995 Founds Southfields magazine with Raymond Friel; Marks & Sparks published by Duncan Glen, Akros 1994 Poems in Dream State: The New Scottish Poets (ed. O'Rourke); Beyond Tragedy: The Novels and Plays of Neil M. Gunn, 1926-1941 [doctoral thesis, Strathclyde]; Co-edits anthology of Informationist poetry, Contraflow on the Superhighway with W. N. Herbert; Resigns from Gairfish 1993 Sense and a Minor Fever, Tube Shelter Perspective 1991 The Fabulous Matter of Fact: Neil M. Gunn's Poetics; Founds Vennel Press with Leona Medlin to publish Donny O'Rourke's Second Cities: books by Elizabeth James, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey and others follow 1989 Founds magazine Gairfish with W. N. Herbert, with first issue published the following year 1988 Wins Glasgow & Strathclyde Universities Creative Writing Competition; Meets Donny O'Rourke; Reads at Babbity Bowster and at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow. Wins Keith Wright Memorial Prize for Poetry second year running. Completes degree with double first and both class prizes; Begins at British Library, London 1987 Begins to read on the Glasgow scene: at Strathclyde and at a café on Otago Street. Wins Strathclyde's Keith Wright Memorial Prize for Poetry. 1984-1988 Glasgow, Strathclyde University. Joint Honours Degree in English & Librarianship. Teachers include Colin MacCabe, Douglas Gifford, Charles Palliser, K.G. Simpson and Andrew Noble. 1983-1984 Edinburgh, Napier College of Technology. NCTJ Diploma in Journalism. 1966-83 Renfrewshire 1966 Born, Reading, England; Moves with family to Scotland same year
All texts unless otherwise stated are © Richard Price 2005 |
"That's him. Yes -
it was him." |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |