Richard Price

An innovative and prolific poet, Richard Price rose to prominence in 2005, when his first collection for Carcanet Press, Lucky Day, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A member of the Informationist group of poets in the 1990s – alongside Robert Crawford, Alan Riach and W. N. Herbert, among others – Price has been a founding member of magazines such as Gairfish, Southfields and Painted, spoken, as well as Vennel Press. His first novel, A Boy in Summer, was published in 2002. He is also a member of the London-based Poetry Workshop.

Though English born, within six weeks Richard Price had moved to Renfrewshire – the basis for the half-rural, half-urban landscape of Renfrewshwhere, in which his poems take place. He trained as a journalist at Napier College before studying English at the University of Strathclyde, and in 1994 completed a PhD on Modern Scottish Fiction, specifically the novels and plays of Neil M. Gunn.

Richard Price is currently Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library, London. His latest collection, Rays, was published by Carcanet.