Purple Poets

Workshop Leader: Kim Morrissey
guest poet: Richard Price




Richard Price
guest poet: National Poetry Day 2006

2006. Richard Price will be giving the keynote speech and reading at 6 pm, October 5th 2006 at the Diorama Gallery 4 (D4) (across from Warren Street Station) and reading with London-wide Time Bank Poets. Free.  Everyone welcome.

2009. Richard has just launched  Raes, his third collection of poetry with Carcanet Press. Review in the Guardian 31.10.2009.

Richard Price's most recent poetry book is Lucky Day (Carcanet Press) which was shortlisted for Whitbread Prize. He has edited Gairfish and Southfields, and co-founded Vennel Press. He is Head of Modern British Collection at the British Library in London.

GUARDIAN REVIEW (BEST BOOKS IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS FOR 2005: January 1, 2005)

Lucky Day by Richard Price (Carcanet). 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 hardearned 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. RP [Robert Potts]

Books

2005 Lucky Day, shortlisted for Whitbread Prize, a Book of the Year in The Guardian and on BBC Radio Scotland; The Mechanical Word, series of five artist’s books with Karen Bleitz, exhibited at Circle Press show, Pentagram Gallery, London; Editor, Best Scottish Poems 2005, for Scottish Poetry Library.

2004 Curates "Ted Hughes: The Page is Printed", exhibition, British Library; appointed Head of Modern British Collections

2002 A Boy In Summer; Frosted, Melted

2001 Starts Painted, spoken magazine

2000 Renfrewshire in Old Photographs with Raymond Friel;
Last issue of Southfields

1999 Gift Horse, artist's book with Ronald King;
Perfume & Petrol Fumes

1997 Hand Held ; Protests at small-press exclusion from Paul Hamlyn Awards. Wins right to enter. Wins runner-up award.

1996 Marks & Sparks sells out. 2nd edition published

1995 Founds Southfields magazine with Raymond Friel;
Marks & Sparks published by Duncan Glen, Akros

1994 Poems in Dream State: The New Scottish Poets (ed. O'Rourke); Beyond Tragedy: The Novels and Plays of Neil M. Gunn, 1926-1941 [doctoral thesis, Strathclyde]; Co-edits Contraflow on the Superhighway, an anthology of Informationist poetry, with W. N. Herbert.

1993 Sense and a Minor Fever, Tube Shelter Perspective

1991 The Fabulous Matter of Fact: Neil M. Gunn's Poetics; Founds Vennel Press with Leona Medlin to publish Donny O'Rourke's Second Cities; books by Elizabeth James, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey and others follow

1989 Founds magazine Gairfish with W. N. Herbert,
with first issue published the following year .



OTHER WEBSITES FEATURING
RICHARD PRICE'S WORK:

Richard Price Official Website
http://www.hydrohotel.net/

Hypertext Poetry Workshop (London, England) Site
http://www.btinternet.com/~carpenter/home1.htm

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West Euston Time Bank
www.westeustontimebank.org.uk
info@westeustontimebank.org.uk

Crypt Centre
Munster Square
West Euston
London NW1 3PL
020 7 383 4922

Workshop Facilitators:
Tony Bloor, Nurjahan Urmi, Josie Nakos

Time Bank Broker:
Shahanara Begum
Poet-in-Residence
Kim Morrissey

The West Euston Time Bank Poetry Workshop
was funded in 2004 - 2006 by the Arts Council, the Carnegie Trust,
Time Banks UK and The New Economics Foundation
and affiliated with Time Banking UK.

TBUK
Time Banking UK,
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Brick Row,
Stroud GL5 1DF
Tel: 01453 750952
Email: info@timebanks.co.uk
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