Just voted. I know we live in a very compromised democracy, where lobbyists and those with millions to chuck around get more access and more power than voters, but I still love making that cross and thinking for a moment it makes a difference. Well, here we go...

Beautiful day here in the Hanging Gardens of Haringey. Just the sort of day when Gray and Jas set off on a simple household task... But things don't quite go to plan. ..Read more in The Island, just out from Salt. www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

IT is really important because without it Isaac Newton would just have discovered gravy.

Just about a week to go before the novel The Island is published! "The most beautiful nightmare you'll ever read," says Toby Litt. I think he means that's a good thing! Can be ordered now...The Island by Richard Price | Waterstones www.waterstones.com/book/the-isl...

Just about a week to go before the novel The Island is published! "The most beautiful nightmare you'll ever read," says Toby Litt. I think he means that's a good thing! Can be ordered now...The Island by Richard Price | Waterstones www.waterstones.com/book/the-isl...

Did you know that the UK were about to use biological warfare in the WW2 but changed mind at last minute? My novel The Island was inspired by that story -- a father and a daughter on a strange road trip where there's 'something in the air'. Order here: www.waterstones.com/book/the-isl...

‘Richard Price explores the intersecting worlds of children and adults with a wild joy and sadness. Here Price’s lyric gifts are refined further towards the quintessence. A well-nigh perfect short novel.’ —Bill Broady. Coming Soon! www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

‘Richard Price explores the intersecting worlds of children and adults with a wild joy and sadness. Here Price’s lyric gifts are refined further towards the quintessence. A well-nigh perfect short novel.’ —Bill Broady. Coming Soon! www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

Workshop now booking. Loving feedback from last year! "Richard has a great sense of humour & sharp intelligence that's bracing & enlightening. He knows poetry. He meets students where they're at to find our strengths & encourage us to try alternatives if called for" poetryschool.com/courses/clar...

"I mean thick hedges, with trees nearby for a bit of shade and a field not a road not too far off" #TodaysPoem #poetry Hedge Sparrows by Richard Price (@paintedspoken.bsky.social) in Lucky Day (2005 @carcanet.bsky.social @byleaveswelive.bsky.social) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/hedge-s...

night horses

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...

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...

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...

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...

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".

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...

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

My new book, exploring folk tales in Lincolnshire, is now available for pre-order! Publication: April 2026. fiveleaves.co.uk/product/devi...

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".

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-...

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.

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.

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.