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22/02/2011

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21/02/2011

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Richard to headline at Tiger Tiger reading

17/02/2011

Richard is delighted to announce that he will be amongst the poets headlining the Tiger Tiger reading at Bloxwich library on Saturday March 5th.
The event will feature a number of well known poets who are all gathering together to support tiger charities.
The poems the poets are reading are to be compiled in a book, Tiger Tiger which is to be published within the year with the blessing of The World Wiildlife Fund.
The project is coordinated by Helen Calcutt,the performance poet and the artist Peter Tinkler of The Written Image.
Please visit Helen's website for further details re submitting your own poems for the collection or submit your work directly via their e mail thewrittenimage@hotmail.com See you there!
P.S. Tickets for the event cost £5 and can be purchased in advance by telephoning
01922 655900
P.P.S. All the money from ticket sales etc will be donated to tiger charities.

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Wildness: Animals in their Habitats

16/01/2011

Richard was delighted to hear recently that
Pollyanna Pickering is keen to work with him on a collection of Richard's Born Free Poems, which will also include what he and others consider to be his best wildlife poems from the last 2 decades.
The collection, which is to be published by Coypu Publications, Richard's own publishing house will be illustrated with Pollyanna's paintings and photographs by Anna - Louise.
No doubt has yet been set for publication but the launch will take place at Brookvale, Pollyanna's house just outside Matlock in Derbyshire sometime during the Summer of 2012.
Both are looking forward to collaborating on the project and a portion of the proceeds from sales will be divided equally between The Born Free and Pollyanna Pickering foundations.
Anyone interested in helping to fund the venture should contact Richard, either by e mail or by using the contact box provided.

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New Review for Animated Nature

13/01/2011

Kathy Page, the well known novelist and graduate of Malcolm Bradbury's School of Creative writing at The University of East Anglia has just described Richard as "A 21st century John Clare" in her review of Animated Nature.
Kathy has written a number of well reviewed novels,including Alphabet and The Find.
She has been long listed for The Orange Prize for Fiction and one of her novels is shortly to be made into a film.