Chronology

October 2009 Rays published. "These are fantastic poems of love and desire. Is Richard Price the best Scottish poet of recent years? I should think so." - David Wheatley Read and Hear More

June 2009 Likestarlings collaboration with Luke Kennard. Judges inaugural Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Awards with Ian McMillan and Jackie Kay (winners were Oystercatcher Press and Elizabeth Burns).

May 2009 Cartas de Ontem (selected poems, in English and Portuguese; translated by Virna Teixeira). Readings in Rio and Sao Paulo with grant from Thomas Wright Memorial Trust. Wake up and sleep, limited edition artist's book with etchings by Caroline Isgar, bound by Clare Bryan

February 2009

2008 Greenfields shortlisted for Sundial Poetry Book of the Year. Contains "one of the great love poems in English in recent times" - Simon Smith, PN Review; "So: much to enjoy, much to think about." - Jane Routh, Stride. folded artist's book published from essence press. Forms band Mirabeau with Caroline Trettine

2007 Curates "The Possibility of Poetry: Migrant Press and the Book Arts in Britain", exhibition, British Library. Records session for Archive of the Now (mainly Earliest Spring Yet). Greenfields published and, with Ronald King, pop-up alphabet little but often

2006 Lute Variations, Earliest Spring Yet, British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000 (with David Miller); collaborates with Raymond Friel on new sister series to Painted, spoken, PS

2005 Lucky Day a Guardian Book of the Year; A BBC Radio Scotland Book of the Year; shortlisted for Whitbread Poetry Book of the Year, for Jerwood/Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and for Forward Felix Dennis First Collection Prize. The Mechanical Word, series of five artist’s books with Karen Bleitz. 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 anthology of Informationist poetry, Contraflow on the Superhighway with W. N. Herbert; Resigns from Gairfish

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

1988 Wins Glasgow & Strathclyde Universities Creative Writing Competition; Meets Donny O'Rourke; Reads at Babbity Bowster and at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow. Wins Keith Wright Memorial Prize for Poetry second year running. Completes degree with double first and both class prizes; Begins at British Library, London

1987 Begins to read on the Glasgow scene: at Strathclyde and at a café on Otago Street. Wins Strathclyde's Keith Wright Memorial Prize for Poetry.

1984-1988 Glasgow, Strathclyde University. Joint Honours Degree in English & Librarianship. Teachers include Colin MacCabe, Douglas Gifford, Charles Palliser, K.G. Simpson and Andrew Noble.

1983-1984 Edinburgh, Napier College of Technology. NCTJ Diploma in Journalism.

1966-83 Renfrewshire

1966 Born, Reading, England; Moves with family to Scotland same year

All texts unless otherwise stated are © Richard Price 2005