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Richard Meier

Richard Meier was born in Surrey in 1970. He won the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize in 2010 and his first collection Misadventure will be published by Picador in March 2012. Some of his poems appeared in Carcanet’s 2002 Oxford Poets Anthology. Richard works in mental health policy and lives in north London with his wife and two children.

Richard Meier on Granta.com

Poetry | The Online Edition

Poetry | The Online Edition

We’ll always have Paris

Richard Meier

‘I’d gone there with my girlfriend of three years, / then left her three days after meeting you.’

Poetry | The Online Edition

Poetry | The Online Edition

Fabric

Richard Meier

‘At midnight on our third and final date / I stepped inside her Edwardian conversion / to find a stripped-pine, bookless space.’