Richard Capener is a writer and West Country expat living in Glasgow. He’s performed extreme noise in godforsaken pubs, assisted free improvisation workshops for mother and toddler groups, played in a roof slate ensemble and been banned from a shopping centre in Newcastle for recording the vibrations of freezer cabinets.

His poetry releases include KL7 (The Red Ceilings Press), The Voice Without (Beir Bua Press, now defunct) and, in collaboration with Imogen Reid, Today is a Thursday (Overground Underground). He also published a memoir, Dance! The Statue Has Fallen! Now His Head is Beneath Our Feet! (Broken Sleep Books). His writing has appeared in journals across the UK, Ireland, America and Canada. He edits Hem Press, and its sound poetry imprint Angry Starlings. He also blogs, on occasion, through his Substack, The Emergency Kisses.

Richard’s Angry Starling’s release, Orphanage (for Ami Yoshida and Utah Kawasaki), is available here, and the anthology he edited, What We Did During the Apocalypse: The Archive of the Babel Tower Notice Board, is available here.