Richard Price (poet)

His collaborators include David Annand, Julie Johnstone, Simon Lewandowski, Karen Bleitz, Caroline Trettine and Ronald King.

In the 1990s he co-edited the poetry magazines Gairfish (with W. N. Herbert), Verse (with Robert Crawford, Henry Hart, David Kinloch, and others) and Southfields (with Raymond Friel).

[7] In 1994 he successfully completed his PhD at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, on the novelist of the inter-war years Neil M. Gunn and his engagement with the tragic.

He also curated exhibitions that included Ted Hughes: The Page is Printed (2004) [10] and The Possibility of Poetry: From Migrant magazine to artists' books (2007).

Rays (Carcanet), containing many love poems as well as variations on the sonnets and canzone of Louise Labé and Guido Cavalcanti was shortlisted for a Scottish Book Award.

Mirabeau comprised Price (as lyricist and vocalist) and the singer-songwriter Caroline Trettine with contributions by various musicians including Ian Kearey (of The Blue Aeroplanes).

In 2012 his poem "Hedge Sparrows" was chosen to represent Great Britain in the Olympics project the Written World, and recorded for BBC radio by the actor Jim Broadbent.

In 2017 his collection Moon for Sale (Carcanet) was published and subsequently shortlisted for the Saltire Society's Poetry Book of the Year.

At this time he began to work with Roberto Sainz de la Maza who composed the music, produced and played on the resulting album by The Loss Adjustors, The World Brims (2020).

In 2022 he collaborated with the artist Simon Lewandowski on a book of poems and images examining the life of dating apps, Tinderness (Wild Pansy Press).