Richard Price
B. 1966
Richard Price retains an individual voice in which intense feelings of love, or dislocation, are packing into often short, complex lyrics -- Carol Ann Duffy
About Richard Price
Throughout this recording, Richard Price reads with a quiet authority but also reassuring humanity. There is an animated quality to his voice, but the poet also pauses to take stock, allowing the reader to do the same. From the ‘holiday romance’ of a deckchair to melancholy’s interior, ‘a quiet river’s stepping stones’, the poems chart the highlights of five published collections with Carcanet Press, confirming Abi Curtis’ assessment of Price as ‘a poet who listens, and this is what makes his work sing’.
Richard Price's recording was made for The Poetry Archive on 21 November 2016 at The Soundhouse, London.
Poems by Richard Price
Motorcruisers - Richard Price
Holiday romance - Richard Price
The world is busy, Katie - Richard Price
A bow-tie pattern - Richard Price
Softened, bright - Richard Price
Big Bang research - Richard Price
In your generous hours - Richard Price
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Awards
1987
Winner, Keith Wright Memorial Prize for Poetry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Prize website1988
Winner, Keith Wright Memorial Prize for Poetry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Prize website