Magazines

In the early 1990s Richard Price co-edited the poetry magazines Gairfish with W. N. Herbert and Verse (with David Kinloch and Robert Crawford and others). Later, he founded the cultural review Southfields with Raymond Friel which ran from 1994-2000. In 2001 he started the deliberately lo-fi Painted, spoken, working again with Raymond Friel in 2006 on PS, a supplement to Painted, spoken that publishes articles, reviews and Price's column An Information.

Painted, spoken

Painted, spoken is a magazine for modern poetry. It appears very occasionally and has a print run of 100 copies or less. It is distributed in exchange for only a stamped addressed A5 envelope (two first class stamps cover the postage). This should be sent to: Painted, Spoken, 24 Sirdar Rd, London, N22 6RG

It is not normally available outside the UK in physical form, but earlier digitised back copies are at poetrymagazines.org.uk. Future issues, and an increasing number of ones from the past, will be available from this site.

Sorry, because each issue is actively curated the magazine is not usually open to submissions.

Contributors in the past have included S. B.Kelly, Raymond Friel, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey, Alexander Hutchison, Robin Fulton, Donny O'Rourke, Frances Presley, Ken Cockburn, Andrew Duncan, Tom Leonard, Larry Butler, Simon Smith, Gael Turnbull, Hamish Whyte, Dorothy Alexander, Alec Finlay, Jen Hadfield, Douglas Lipton, Edwin Morgan, Kara Price, John Shreffler, Fanny Howe, D. M. Black, Fiona Wilson and others.

Back Issues

Selected Ps's will be reproduced here, in A4 pdf documents. To view an image as if it were the A5 original use the zoom function and reduce to 75%.

Ps21 (2011) [PDF version]
Amy Anderson, Tim Atkins, Isobel Dixon, Valerie Josephs, Francesca Lisette, Peter McCarey, James McGonigal, Peter Manson, Catherine Wagner

Ps20 (2009) [PDF version]
Carrie Etter, Graham Fulton, Eddie Gibbons, Peter McCarey, Antônio Moura translated by Stefan Tobler, Donny O'Rourke, and seekers of lice

Ps19, "Tasted, drunken", by Alec Finlay, only appeared in hardcopy

Ps18: Children's Playground Songs Today [PDF version]
Playground songs collected by Ken Cockburn, Janet McInnes, Ellen Price, Maisie Price and Richard Price

Ps17 (2008) [Poetry Library edition]
Contributors include Robin Fulton, Peter McCarey, Jeremy Noel-Tod, and Virna Teixeira

Ps16 (2008): South Bank MP3 Audio [Poetry Library edition]
Contributors include Nancy Campbell, Guido Cavalcanti (improvised by Richard Price), Jane Draycott, Ulli Freer, Ulli Freer, Raymond Friel, Elizabeth James, Kim Morrissey and Simon Smith

Ps15 (2007) [Poetry Library edition]
Contributors include Peter McCarey, Penelope Shuttle, Stephen Watts and Matthew Welton

Prose supplement

The prose supplement to the magazine, PS, edited by Price and Raymond Friel, publishes literary criticism and literary history, attempting to both widen and deepen the discussion of contemporary poetry by contextualising poetry across vying traditions -- and beyond them.

Prose Supplement 1 (2006) [click for pdf]
Contents: Richard Price, "Migrant"; Jonnie Turnbull, "The Migrant Years"; Richard Price interviews Michael Shayer; Virna Teixeira, "Letter from São Paulo"; Giles Harvey, "Letter from New York"; "The Sickness of Modern Man...", "The Decline of the West", "A Life Without Principle"; Raymond Friel, "Not Near Enough: Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan; Richard Price, "An Information", "It's A Record".

Prose Supplement 2 (2007) [click for pdf]
Contents: Andrew Duncan on Joseph Mcleod; Fred Hunter or Intersound and Stream Records; Hazel Frew on Belle & Sebastian; Richard Price interviews Stuart Murdoch; and more

Prose Supplement 3 (2007) [click for pdf]
Contents: Raymond Friel and Robyn Marsack on the memorialisation of W.S. Graham; Will Montgomery on the Elephant and Castle; Mark Tripney on High Rise Modernism; David Kinloch on Alison Watt and "Dark Light"; Richard Price's "An Information"

Prose Supplement 4 (2008) [click for pdf]
Contents: Darren Hayman special issue: DH and the Secondary Modern reviewed; a DH finding list; in depth interview by Richard Price with Darren Hayman

Prose Supplement 5 (2008) [click for pdf]
Contents: Robin Fulton special issue: RF interviewed by Iain Galbraith

Prose Supplement 6 (2009) [click for pdf]
Contents: Allen Fisher, "Between Test and Product";Richard Price, "To Shake the Torpid Pool: poets' pamphlets and the role of little magazines"; seekers of lice, "Manifesto"; Raymond Friel, "Heavy Fooprints"; Giles Goodland, reviewing Hazel Frew, Tim Allen and Anna Glasova; Stewart Conn, reviewing Raymond Friel's Stations of the Heart; Richard Price, "An Information".

Prose Supplement 7 (2011) [click for pdf]
Contents: Richard Price, "Ten" [Ten Years of Painted, spoken]; Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan, "You have forgotten why you asked us here, we cannot remember why we came"; Peter McCarey, "At Ilot 13, Geneva"; Alistair Peebles, "Labour, Blossom: Ian Hamilton Finlay and Orkney"; Richard Price, "Margaret Tait: Film-maker and Poet"; Kristen Krieder, "About POLYply" .

This zone of the site is under construction: more issues will be added as soon as possible.

British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000

Hundreds of magazines are documented in David Miller and Richard Price's British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000 (British Library and Oak Knoll, 2006) which was featured on Ian Macmillan's BBC Radio programme The Verb.

The book, a history, bibliography and finding aid for British little magazines, has received very enthusiastic reviews. These include: "This volume is a major research tool which all university libraries ought to possess" (The Year's Work in English Studies); "This book will be a crucial resource for anybody working on twentieth-century poetry as well as on modernism" (Andrzej Gasiorek and Peter Boxall, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory); and "Miller and Price have produced an invaluable reference tool that will have a lengthy shelf-life" (William Baker, Library Review).

All texts unless otherwise stated © Richard Price