News & Events

For occasional bulletins and a blog by Richard Price see myspace.com/hydrohotel

March 2008. Greenfields shortlisted for Sundial Scottish Arts Council Poetry Book of the Year

-- containing "one of the great love poems in English in recent times" - Simon Smith, PN Review

-- "So many of the poems in Greenfields are achingly heartwarming." - Catherine Woodward, Osprey

-- "So: much to enjoy, much to think about." - Jane Routh, Stride

February 2008. Greenfields Tour: First Dates

Ullapool Book Festival, May; Shore Poets, Edinburgh, June; Phoenix Festival, Glasgow, September

Winter 2007/8. New artist's book, with Ron King, little but often, published by Circle Press

Autumn 2007. Myspace site and blog launched

Summer 2007. New collection Greenfields published. Contains "one of the great love poems in English in recent times" - Simon Smith, PN Review

Spring 2007. Work going well on two new artists' books projects: more details later. "Wake Up and Sleep" poem published within Calouste Gulbenkian anthology, Signs & Humours edited by Lavinia Greenlaw. PN Review publishes essay on Migrant Press and its influence on the British Poetry Revival in the 1960s. July date given for next Carcanet collection, to be called Greenfields

"Cartas de Londres": the first of a new series of "Letters from London", at the Brazilian site Zunai (English original at Letter to Sao Paulo)

Landfill Press publish Earliest Spring Yet

British Library & Oak Knoll publish British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000, co-written with David Miller

12/04/07 Reading with Mimi Khalvati in Bath Spa Stand Up Poetry Reading Series

17/11/06 Launch of Earliest Spring Yet at Christ's College, Cambridge, with Shearsman and Landfill poets R. F. Langley, Graeme Richardson, and Peter Riley

19/03/06 Reading at Stanza Festival, St Andrews

10/02/06 Reading at Magdalene College, Cambridge, with Tamar Yoseloff, Fiona Sampson, and Jacob Polley

01/06-03/06 The Mechanical Word (with book artist, Karen Bleitz) on exhibition at Courtauld Institute

11/01/06 Launch of Lute Variations, with Rack Press poets John Barnie and Nicholas Murray

11/05 Lucky Day Shortlisted for Whitbread Poetry Book of the Year

10/05 Lucky Day Shortlisted for Jerwood/Aldeburgh First Collection Prize

09/05 Lucky Day Shortlisted for Forward Felix Dennis First Collection Prize

07/11/05 Reading with John Hall, University of Bolton

04/10/05 Reading at Liverpool University

23/08/05 Reading with David Kinloch, Edinburgh Book Festival

6/06/05 Reading at Troubadour Coffee House, Earls Court

03/05 Lucky Day Scottish Launch, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh