Richard Price

Richard Price

@paintedspoken.bsky.social

Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)

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Clarity & Vision: Advanced Poetry Workshop with Richard Price • Poetry School Join this group for close discussion of your writing with acclaimed poet, Richard Price. An advanced poetry course

Workshop now booking. Loving feedback from last year! "Richard has a great sense of humour & sharp intelligence that's bracing & enlightening. He knows poetry. He meets students where they're at to find our strengths & encourage us to try alternatives if called for" poetryschool.com/courses/clar...

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"I mean thick hedges, with trees nearby for a bit of shade and a field not a road not too far off"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Hedge Sparrows by Richard Price (@paintedspoken.bsky.social) in Lucky Day (2005 @carcanet.bsky.social @byleaveswelive.bsky.social) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/hedge-s...

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night horses

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The Island by Richard Price | Waterstones Buy The Island by Richard Price from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

This April my short novel about a father and a daughter stealing a car is republished in a new edition. Early birds can get 25% off the cover price with this Waterstones promotion.
www.waterstones.com/book/the-isl...

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The Island by Richard Price | Waterstones Buy The Island by Richard Price from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

This April my short novel about a father and a daughter stealing a car is republished in a new edition. Early birds can get 25% off the cover price with this Waterstones promotion.
www.waterstones.com/book/the-isl...

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Transmission #42 - Repairs, risks Transmission from: Karam Glinchy Shanti (26), Maintenance Operative C, Relay Wharf 6, Orbit of Mars

I've been working for Project Abeona, writing for plausible space futures. Here's one of my alter egos, Karim Glinchy Shanti, transmitting from a thousand years beyond as they work on a Relay Wharf. #sci-fi #prosepoems #poetry #spaceexploration
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...

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Transmission #42 - Repairs, risks Transmission from: Karam Glinchy Shanti (26), Maintenance Operative C, Relay Wharf 6, Orbit of Mars

I've been working for Project Abeona, writing for plausible space futures. Here's one of my alter egos, Karim Glinchy Shanti, transmitting from a thousand years beyond as they work on a Relay Wharf. #sci-fi #prosepoems #poetry #spaceexploration
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...

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An accordion fold artist's book Sweet Apple

It's Valentines Day soon. Here's a beautiful little book Julie Johnstone of Essence Press made - - from my version of a #Sappho fragment "Sweet apple".

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Very much looking forward to having a table for Essence Press at the Artists' Bookmarket this coming weekend 14-15 Feb @fruitmarket.bsky.social #ArtistsBookMarket
Do drop by to say hello if you are nearby... Over 60 book artist and publisher tables to browse.
www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/artist...

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Delighted to have my poem “Straitjacket” as part of Greg Thomas’ beautiful postcard series, paired with Fèlix Delandre’s resonant “chaos.” To order and support this wonderful small press: oo-press.com/postcard-poems

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My new book, exploring folk tales in Lincolnshire, is now available for pre-order! Publication: April 2026.

fiveleaves.co.uk/product/devi...

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Thanks Peter!

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An accordion fold artist's book Sweet Apple

It's Valentines Day soon. Here's a beautiful little book Julie Johnstone of Essence Press made - - from my version of a #Sappho fragment "Sweet apple".

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Josephine of course. Sorry. Though under the open-thinking rules of the manifesto maybe Josephone is a cool new nom de son for a sound poetry project!

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Rules for Poetry Some notes I wrote on how I want to write

I've been reading a stimulating near-manifesto, "Rules for Poetry" by H. Josephone Giles. It's a bit sweary but we're grownups here, right, and I find so much I either agree with, or didn't know I agreed with until I saw it written. Sign-up not necessary. hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/rules-for-...

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And my first transcendental music experience was seeing Ali Farka Toure play there -- long blue and white robe, divine blues.

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I don't have a pic of my performances at the CCA but this one captures my sense of sorrow that it has folded. I feel Glasgow has been so neglected for decades and this is another major blow. My first public appearance was there in 1987, giving a Mayfest poetry reading before I even had a publisher.

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Today is first day of term for my ten-session Poetry School workshop - I like the mix of veterans who've been with the group for some time and the new poets who stretch and surprise us. Quite often, though we can't know beforehand, the poems we look at overlap, a mini anthology emerges for the day.

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Hi Julia!

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Hi Kate!

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1 month ago

Thank you!

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Thanks Peter! I'm gradually publishing extracts in @pnreview.bsky.social

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Thank you!

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Hello, my first post! I'm the writer Richard Price, with poetry collections which include Lucky Day and Late Gifts, and the novella The Island, which will be reissued this year in April. I'm also writing a memoir of the British Library where I worked as a curator of contemporary British books.

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