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), The Topiary (C22 Open Editions), bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb (Atomic Bohemian) and, in collaboration with Imogen Reid, Today is a Thursday (Overground Underground). His writing has appeared in journals across the UK, Ireland, America and Canada. He edits Hem Press, as well as its imprints Angry Starlings and /plex editions. He 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. He also edited the anthology, What We Did During the Apocalypse: The Archive of the Babel Tower Notice Board, which is available here alongside Assessment here.