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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.