These are sensual, shapeshifting poems by this award-winning and "compelling pleasurable poet" (The Guardian), which unfold like a series of haunting dreams.
About the Author
Richard Price was born in 1966 and grew up in Scotland. He trained as a journalist at Napier College, Edinburgh, before studying English at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The youngest of the Informationist group of poets, he was a founder of the magazines associated with them, "Gairfish and Southfields". He is also the co-founder of Vennel Press, the imprint which brought many of the earlier Informationist collections to a wider audience. He is now Head of Content and Research Strategy at the British Library, London.
Reviews
"Fully alive to our financialized, precarious situation, this poet is also alive to the human sensorium and the revels of language – its permutations, transmutations. 'Moon for Sale' announces in its very title this poet's mordant wit but also his romanticism. A formidable intelligence powers this work, its whiplashing jingles and ditties, its visual poems, its sonic brilliances, its micro-shifts and micro-tones, its ominous deadpans, dry diagnoses. Yet for all Price's severities, we also encounter 'intimate risks,/ a whispered promise'. He is one of our most attentive, delicate, ferocious transmitters, singers, makers" – Maureen N. McLane
"Richard Price retains an individual voice in which intense feelings of love, or dislocation, are packed into often short, complex lyrics. There is a tension in reading his poems which is created by his care for words, by the integrity of his distillation" – Carol Ann Duffy
