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Shop doors with Edifice Price above them. Photo by Peter McCarey

Painted, spoken is the poetry magazine of the writer Richard Price, publishing contemporary poetry, features, short fiction, and reviews.  For its first twenty years it was printed. Now selections exist online, too.


The magazine is free. Just send a stamped addressed envelope (A5) to the address below. Please note that it is a limited edition: if you don't manage to send in time for the current issue the next issue will be sent to you instead.


Back issues in lo-fi can be read here: www.hydrohotel.net/mags.htm


It is open for poetry and art-based texts and always seeking feature writers and reviewers who engage with the aesthetics and ideas of the magazine. Contact hydrohotel@hotmail.com if you are interested.


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What is it?

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  • contemporary poetry 
  • reflections on literature, culture, politics, and art
  • short fiction
  • translation


  • limited edition in print
  • unlimited selections here

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Four public telephones. Photo by Peter McCarey.

 "Painted, spoken has been edited in London since 2001 by the indefatigably inventive Scottish poet Richard Price. Of all the journals described here, Painted, spoken is the most visually modest, closer in aesthetic to a zine than to a conventional literary journal (it typically consists of about 20 stapled pages). In spirit, too, it is appropriately idiosyncratic, disseminated for free, in exchange for a stamped addressed envelope, to readers swift enough to snap up the mere 100 copies produced per print run. There’s something of a samizdat feeling about this and the plain, paper cover of Painted, spoken suggests an unmarked door behind which poets and writers are talking, creating, translating, reviewing, and, no doubt, arguing over the eternally vexed point where extremes meet. Price makes no bones about his preference for maintaining coherence and continuity amongst contributors and for keeping the journal itself at something of a remove from the conventional literary market. Past issues have featured the fresh talents of, among others, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey, Tom Leonard, Simon Smith, Jen Hadfield, Edwin Morgan, and Fanny Howe. " - Fiona Wilson, The Bottle Imp

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Previously in this series...

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Press Beli and Spak. A sign  Photo by Peter McCarey

  • Playground Songs Today 
  • The History of Turnbull and Shayer's Migrant Magazine 
  • Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian)  interviewed
  • Eye-witness account of Day 1 of Occupy the London Stock Exchange
  • The Poetry of Margaret Tait
  • Serialisation of Peter McCarey's Syllabary 


James Aitchison, Amy Anderson, Simon Barraclough, Chris Beckett, Bill Broady, Larry Butler, Guido Cavalcanti, Nancy Campbell, Caroline Clark, Kelvin Corcoran, Isobel Dixon, Jane Draycott, Carrie Etter, Katie Evans-Bush, Aisha Farr, Gerrie Fellows, Hazel Frew, Raymond Friel, Graham Fulton, Eddie Gibbons, Anne Gutt, Ralph Hawkins, Jeff Hilson, Alexander Hutchison, Elizabeth James, Antony John, Valerie Josephs, Bonnie Kempster, Stuart Kelly, Khlebnikov, David Kinloch, Dorothy Lehane, Francesca Lisette, Patrizia Longhitano, Gerry Loose, Hannah Lowe, Ricardo Marques, Drew Milne, Kim Morrissey, Tatynana Moseeva, Chris McCabe, Peter McCarey, James McGonigal, Maureen McLane, Robin Fulton Macpherson, Peter Manson, matt martin, Antônio Moura, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Donny O’Rourke,  Frances Presley, Francisca Prieto, Sappho, seekers of lice, Gavin Selerie, Ganna Shevchenko, Penelope Shuttle, Linus Slug, Simon Smith, Stewart Smith, Virna Teixeira, Sergej Timofejev, Stephan Tobler, Peter Todd, Catherine Wagner, Stephen Watts, Matthew Welton, Fiona Wilson, April Yee



Rights and Gongs

Gargoyle, Brazil, Minas Gerais. Photo by Richard Price

All works are copyright the original creators and should not be used without permission. Respect the creators, their labour and their talent: a  fee should be the default expectation for reproducing their work.


This site is funded independent of state aid by dark money redirected from an underused beer fund.


A special thank you to Peter McCarey who has supplied many of the images.


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