With 15 poetry books and half a dozen prizes and awards, his work has been translated into 17 languages. His books include: Croft Woods (1999), Against Perfection (1999), The Manager (2001) and Book With No Back Cover (2003), For the Living (2004) and In a Time of Drought (2005). In the 1970s, Richard founded and ran the now almost legendary international Cambridge Poetry Festival. Several documentary TV programmes have been made about his work.