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Includes letters of the poets Raymond Friel, David Kinloch and Edwin Morgan.

Scope and Contents Painted, spoken is a little poetry magazine founded and edited by Richard Price. The magazine is independently funded and is essentially in the modernist tradition, combining a range of Scottish contemporary writing with English experimental poetry. Price does not accept unsolicited submissions, preferring to assemble the content from poets he already knows or has come into contact with. This policy means that the editorial papers are particularly rich in correspondence with poets, and...

Scope and Contents Working poetry notebooks of Richard Price. The notebooks contain drafts of poems, many very different from the published version, also unpublished work, translations and reflections on major events in Price`s life. The notebooks show Price’s working practice, including his idiosyncratic use of pluses and minuses for metric stresses; his engagement with ideas in Scottish art, fiction and poetry; his use of Renfrewshire in his work; and his habit of working on several very different poems at...