Richard Price’s work was first published in the late 1980s in his home city Glasgow, Scotland. His broad-ranging poetry can be placed within the same territory of concerns as older lyrical, intellectual writers associated with that city, notably Tom Leonard, Edwin Morgan and Veronica Forrest-Thomson. In the 1990s he was a founding member of the Informationists, a group of Scottish poets who foregrounded information technology and other forms of modernity in their work. Price’s later poems have displayed a particular interest in song, often marrying an abstract permuational style with much warmer emotional effects. His collections include Lucky Day, Greenfields, and Rays (all published by Carcanet). He writes fiction under the name R J Price. He is also a literary historian, co-writing with David Miller the monumental British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A history and bibliography of the little magazine, and curating the British Library exhibition Migrant Magazine and the Possibility of Poetry. He is Head of Content and Research Strategy at the British Library in London.

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