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Richard Price is a contemporary Scottish poet and novelist who has also published translations He grew up in Renfrewshire and began writing poetry at the age of 14 After leaving school he trained as a journalist at Napier College Edinburgh before taking a degree in English and Librarianship at the University of Strathclyde Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name Natural landscapes through which love and lyricism flicker and flare are the backdrop for these poems The sparrows pigeons and magpies of the urban periphery lighten the atmosphere as they edge the collection toward the city in the humorous elegy Bird List while Hand Held a personal and vulnerable piece delicately celebrates the author s experience of fathering a child with severe learning difficulties The collection is filled out with pieces of love and memory affirming in the end the luck intrinsic to survival Lucky DaySome really wonderful poems contained in this book His collection Hand Held centred around his daughter with intellectual disability is particularly moving and beautiful English