Is This a Poem?

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“Humane, enquiring and accomplished, these essays deserve a wide readership” — David Wheatley, Times Literary Supplement

“Enjoying this splendid collection of essays by @InfoPrice; marvellous insights into poetry and poets.” — Ian McMillan

“Richard Price’s book of essays Is This a Poem? collects a range of writings by one of our finest poets. It opens with a perceptive consideration of lyric poetry itself before moving out to reflect on a range of writers and artists as diverse as Guillaume Apollinaire, David Bomberg, Edward Thomas, Ford Madox Ford, Edwin Morgan and Margaret Tait. At its heart, though, are studies of the little magazines and small presses that are the lifeblood of a literary culture. As a significant editor himself, Price knows how to get under the skin of these infrastructures and he writes with generosity of the friendships and ambitions that animated them.” — David Kinloch, Scottish Review of Books

Richard Price is a poet whose work moves between the personal lyric, where love, family, and the lives of children
feature strongly, and a more conceptual approach, where memory and society are addressed with a music in turn lush
and restrained. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize, winner of the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year, he is Head of
Contemporary British Collections at the British Library.