Shortlisted for the 2017 Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award. The poems in Richard Price''s Moon for Sale delight in linguistic play, turning over sound and sense with gleeful dexterity. But they are equally visually sensitive: Price''s lyricism speaks as much to a cinematic sensibility as to a poetic one, to Terrence Malick''s Tree of Life, to the carefully braided documentaries of Viera Cakanyova, and to the elegiac filmscapes of Margaret Tait. In the shadow of a culture in which even the moon is up for auction, Moon for Sale records the decadence of our times by incorporating and repurposing that culture''s language. At the same time a haven of meaning is sought in the erotic, in the intimate transactions between bodies, that ''rush of unclevering'' which both simplifies and intensifies the world.
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Product Details
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 154 x 216mm
Publication Date: 26 Jan 2017
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
ISBN13: 9781784102845
About Richard Price
Richard Price was born in 1966 and grew up in Scotland. He was educated at Napier College Edinburgh and at Strathclyde University Glasgow. In the 1990s he became a leading figure in the Informationist movement in Scottish poetry. Richard Price has published a dozen books of poetry since his debut in 1993 including Lucky Day (Carcanet 2005) which was a Guardian Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. In 2012 his poem ''Hedge Sparrows'' was chosen to represent Team GB in the Olympics project ''The Written World''. He writes about families memory and lovers and his poems have been widely anthologised and translated into French Finnish German Hungarian and Portuguese. He is also a short story writer and novelist a critic and the editor of the little magazine Painted spoken. He is Head of Contemporary British Collections at the British Library in London. Richard Price''s website is www.hydrohotel.net.