Richard Price
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Richard Price
@paintedspoken.bsky.social
Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)
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Hello, my first post! I'm the writer Richard Price, with poetry collections which include Lucky Day and Late Gifts, and the novella The Island, which will be reissued this year in April. I'm also writing a memoir of the British Library where I worked as a curator of contemporary British books.
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This April my short novel about a father and a daughter stealing a car is republished in a new edition. Early birds can get 25% off the cover price with this Waterstones promotion.
www.waterstones.com/book/the-isl...
The Island by Richard Price | Waterstones
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February 17, 2026 at 9:08 AM
This April my short novel about a father and a daughter stealing a car is republished in a new edition. Early birds can get 25% off the cover price with this Waterstones promotion.
www.waterstones.com/book/the-isl...
The Island by Richard Price | Waterstones
Buy The Island by Richard Price from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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I've been working for Project Abeona, writing for plausible space futures. Here's one of my alter egos, Karim Glinchy Shanti, transmitting from a thousand years beyond as they work on a Relay Wharf. #sci-fi #prosepoems #poetry #spaceexploration
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Transmission #42 - Repairs, risks
Transmission from: Karam Glinchy Shanti (26), Maintenance Operative C, Relay Wharf 6, Orbit of Mars
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February 14, 2026 at 10:58 AM
I've been working for Project Abeona, writing for plausible space futures. Here's one of my alter egos, Karim Glinchy Shanti, transmitting from a thousand years beyond as they work on a Relay Wharf. #sci-fi #prosepoems #poetry #spaceexploration
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmissi...
Transmission #42 - Repairs, risks
Transmission from: Karam Glinchy Shanti (26), Maintenance Operative C, Relay Wharf 6, Orbit of Mars
projectabeonapoetry.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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It's Valentines Day soon. Here's a beautiful little book Julie Johnstone of Essence Press made - - from my version of a #Sappho fragment "Sweet apple".
February 7, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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Very much looking forward to having a table for Essence Press at the Artists' Bookmarket this coming weekend 14-15 Feb @fruitmarket.bsky.social #ArtistsBookMarket
Do drop by to say hello if you are nearby... Over 60 book artist and publisher tables to browse.
www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/artist...
February 10, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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Delighted to have my poem “Straitjacket” as part of Greg Thomas’ beautiful postcard series, paired with Fèlix Delandre’s resonant “chaos.” To order and support this wonderful small press: oo-press.com/postcard-poems
December 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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My new book, exploring folk tales in Lincolnshire, is now available for pre-order! Publication: April 2026.

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February 9, 2026 at 1:04 PM
It's Valentines Day soon. Here's a beautiful little book Julie Johnstone of Essence Press made - - from my version of a #Sappho fragment "Sweet apple".
February 7, 2026 at 9:54 AM
I've been reading a stimulating near-manifesto, "Rules for Poetry" by H. Josephone Giles. It's a bit sweary but we're grownups here, right, and I find so much I either agree with, or didn't know I agreed with until I saw it written. Sign-up not necessary. hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/rules-for-...
Rules for Poetry
Some notes I wrote on how I want to write
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February 6, 2026 at 10:18 AM
I don't have a pic of my performances at the CCA but this one captures my sense of sorrow that it has folded. I feel Glasgow has been so neglected for decades and this is another major blow. My first public appearance was there in 1987, giving a Mayfest poetry reading before I even had a publisher.
Very sad to hear of the closure of CCA, Glasgow, and the loss of all those jobs.

I have such fondness for the place, not least as it was the site of one of my finer moments.
January 31, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Today is first day of term for my ten-session Poetry School workshop - I like the mix of veterans who've been with the group for some time and the new poets who stretch and surprise us. Quite often, though we can't know beforehand, the poems we look at overlap, a mini anthology emerges for the day.
January 23, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Hello, my first post! I'm the writer Richard Price, with poetry collections which include Lucky Day and Late Gifts, and the novella The Island, which will be reissued this year in April. I'm also writing a memoir of the British Library where I worked as a curator of contemporary British books.
January 22, 2026 at 8:48 AM