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About Jeff Price

Jeff Price is a poet, writer and podcaster based in Newcastle, England. At 53 he left a career in IT to study for a Master's in Poetry at Newcastle University. He then spent 13 years running Radikal Words CIC, delivering workshops, writers' groups and performance poetry events in schools, prisons and community centres across the North East. He has been a regular performer at events including the Prague Fringe Festival, Berlin Poetry Festival and Bristol Poetry Festival.

Twenty years ago he founded the Poetry Vandals, a collective that grew into one of the North East's most recognisable poetry groups — and whose reach extended to an appearance on Airport, a Granada Television production for ITV watched by 14 million viewers. He went on to establish a regular poetry slam at Northern Stage in Newcastle, building it from scratch to a sell-out 200-seat event before passing it on to the next generation. He also produced and directed RiverRuns, a stage show combining poetry and live music to trace a journey down the River Tyne.

His poetry has appeared in anthologies, e-zines and online, and he has written for a number of magazines. His first full collection, Doors, was published in 2006, followed by Toe in The Tarn in 2012 and the CD/book Live at La Sirène. His latest publication is Infinite Threads, a collaboration with photographer Chris Collister. A poem of his was selected for a Visit Britain and Guardian calendar, distributed in 30,000 copies.

More recently his work has turned to fiction and audio. He writes and produces Telling Tales, a fiction podcast now three seasons in, and is at work on a sequence of linked short stories set in 1960s Newcastle — the John Paul Docherty stories. His prose favours economy, implication over explanation, and endings left open rather than resolved.