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Richard Price was born in 1966 and grew up in Scotland. He trained as a journalist at Napier College, Edinburgh, before studying English at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has a PhD from Strathclyde in modern Scottish fiction. The youngest of the Informationist group of poets, he was a founder of the magazines associated with them, Gairfish and Southfields, and co-editor of Verse. He is also the co-founder of Vennel Press, the imprint which brought many of the earlier Informationist collections to a wider audience. He was Chair of the Poetry Society during the Robert Potts and David Herd editorship of Poetry Review.

He tends to work through the form of the sequence, published within small press editions and gathered in collections where the sequences together produce a larger narrative across the whole book. He is essentially a poet of love and memory, with a sensitivity to technological change and its effect on communities and relationships. Lucky Day (Carcanet, 2004) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize and was a Book of the Year in The Guardian and in Scotland on Sunday. He is also a writer of fiction: A Boy in Summer was published in 2003 by Neil Wilson.

His latest sequence is a group of love poems Earliest Spring Yet (Landfill Press) while his most recent larger collection is Greenfields (Carcanet). He is recognised as a poet who is both lyrical and avant-garde, and whose work engages with a range of technical and musical qualities.

Richard is Head of Modern British Collections at The British Library.

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