Poetry BooksGreenfields, Carcanet, 2007Sample poemBuy this book "These are poems of memory, vivid, urgent and pressing...The Giant is one of the great love poems in English in recent times" - Simon Smith, PN Review "Although only his second [major] collection, it's not ridiculous to speak of Price as already an accomplished poet." - Scottish Review of Books Earliest Spring Yet, Landfill Press, 2006Sample poemBuy this book "Modern love in 17 lyrics" - Jeremy Noel-Tod Lute Variations by Louise Labé, with improvisations by Richard Price, Rack Press, 2006Sample poemBuy this book Louise Labé was born in the 1520s, the daughter of a well-to-do ropemaker in Lyon. She learned Latin and Italian and could play the lute. She was married in her teens or early twenties to a much older man, also part of the Lyon bourgeoisie and rope-making industry. Her nickname, La Belle Cordière, translates as the beautiful wife of a ropemaker. From the 1540s Labé was part of the city's literary scene, and when her collection of poems was published in 1555 it was followed within a year by at least three further printings. Her sonnets are witty and passionate. In this collection two of her sonnets are each accompanied by a set of English improvisations by Richard Price. "a classic pamphlet" - Matthew Jarvis, Planet "From the moment" from Lute Variations Lucky Day, Carcanet, 2005Sample poemBuy this book Shortlisted for Whitbread Prize "This is a felicitous gathering of Richard Price's unusual, poignant and funny poetry, which has been appearing in chapbooks, magazines and beautiful small-press volumes for more than a decade. They are clear, witty, intelligent, versatile and often highly moving; superb examples of a hard-earned surface simplicity conveying oceanic depths of feeling and thought. His lyric sequence "Hand Held", about a daughter with learning difficulties, is a masterpiece of spare, hesitant, minimal language. Price excels at rendering and exploiting the pregnant pauses and telling gaps in human speech." - Robert Potts, The Guardian "Big Bang research" from Lucky Day Frosted, Melted, Diehard, 2002Buy this book"A lyrical collection which explores family and memory. Price's imagery is electric, with a capacity to integrate phrases from supposedly non-poetic sources to great effect." - S. B. Kelly, Scotland on Sunday This is one of the books in which the Hydro Hotel appears, the location the unnamed "Renfrewshwhere". The first sequence especially, "Green Field Site", is a companion-piece to the elliptical novel A Boy in Summer Renfrewshire in Old Photographs (with Raymond Friel), Mariscat, 2000Buy this bookAlthough the Hydro Hotel doesn't actually appear in this book, the location is again as much "Renfrewshwhere" as Renfrewshire. Perfume & Petrol Fumes, Diehard, 1999Buy this book"A recurrent theme is relationships of family and sex, where, as in life, what is not said, or half said, is as important as what is actually said, and the gaps, the repetitions, the phrases skating off into silence, the catspaw punctuation are deployed with great skill to keep a reader's mind active in tracing the tingly cataclysmic moves of love and anxiety." - Edwin Morgan, Poetry Review
Tube Shelter Perspective, Southfields, 1993Buy this book"Richard Price's Tube Shelter Perspective is a startling and often surreal collection of poems, a verbal strut." Hayden Murphy, Times Educational Supplement Scotland
Sense and a Minor Fever, with illustrations by Peter Robinson, Vennel Press, 1993Buy this book"Price can be provocative and surprising. He reverses norms
and poetic expectations. At all times we must be alert to minute
perceptions. There is a range and wealth of emotional substance
in this volume." - Scottish Book Collector
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