works by richard price
Essence Press has published three artists’ books by Richard Price.
sweet apple
sweet apple after Sappho | concertina | h 80mm x w 60mm (when folded), w 660 (unfolded); 11 pages | printed inkjet in red | Bockingford watercolour paper 190gsm; hand torn edges and folding; tied in red elastic cord | 2025 | £10 | purchase
Richard Price is a poet and novelist. He has published over a dozen books of poetry since his debut in 1993, including Lucky Day (2005), which was a Guardian Book of the Year. In 2013 Small World won the Creative Scotland Award for the Best Poetry Collection of that year. It was followed by another Guardian Book of the Year, Moon for Sale (2017). The Owner of the Sea (2021), re-telling Inuit stories, was a Scotsman Book of the Year. More recent works include Late Gifts, a braided work which ties consumerism’s interaction with the environment to a narrative of a middle-aged father and his son.
digital
Digital is a book that sits in the palm of your hand just like your smart phone. Waiting for you to read its quietly subversive message.
Booklet | h 150mm x w 75mm; 36 pages; printed inkjet in grey and red on 15 of the facing pages | cover with rounded corners in Bockingford watercolour paper 300gsm | 2018 | £7 | purchase
folded
folded (A7 fold out sheet) | 2008 | almost out of print, please email essencepress@btinternet.com re availability
less
Richard Price is the featured poet in issue 8 of Less, a single-poem journal.
8 : Richard Price | £4 | purchase | read more about less