Magazines

Richard Price's interest in editing magazines started at secondary school when he was one of the editors of the school magazine. After university he co-edited Gairfish with W. N. Herbert, Verse, and Southfields with Raymond Friel. His current magazine is Painted, spoken. In 2006 he began working again with Raymond Friel, author of Stations of the Heart, on PS, a supplement to Painted, spoken that publishes articles, reviews and Price's listings column An Information.

Painted, spoken

This is a little magazine started by Richard Price in 2001. 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 digitised back copies are at poetrymagazines.org.uk

Sorry, it is not 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.

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.

Selected PS's will be reproduced here, in A4 pdf documents. To view an image approaching the smaller-format original use the zoom function and reduce to 75% for A5 effect.

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 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".

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