| Adrian is an Adjunct Professor at Lenoir-Rhyne College, North Carolina and on the Visiting Writers Series Steering Committee. He will be teaching workshops for adults, teens and children and short courses at Duke University in the spring . |
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| Adrian Rice |
| Adrian Rice was born in Belfast in 1958. He is a poet and editor. Being an established poet on the Arts Councils' 'Writers-in-schools' schemes, he teaches creative writing workshops in schools & colleges throughout Ireland. His first sequence of poems appeared in Muck Island (1990), a collaboration with leading Irish artist, Ross Wilson. Copies of this limited edition box set are housed in the collections of The Tate Gallery, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and The Lamont Library, Harvard Unviversity. His second poetry sequence, Impediments (Abbey Press, 1997), also earned him widespread critical acclaim. He edited Signals (Abbey Press, 1997), an anthology of poetry and prose that was a Times Educational Supplement 'Paperback Choice'. He has also edited five anthologies of children's poetry, art and drama - Life of the Lough (1999), Sea & Shore (2000), Around the Lough (2001) Lough Views (2003) Exploring the Lough: Creative Activities for the Primary School Classroom (2003) and Shore Lines (2004). Please visit project website for more info: Belfast Lough Sea & Shore Environmental/Arts Project In 1997, he received the Sir James Kilfedder Memorial Bursary for Emerging Artists. In autumn 1999, as recipient of the US/Ireland Residency Exchange Bursary, he was Poet-in-Residence in Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, North Carolina where he received 'The Key to the City'. Click here to read Marcia Copper's interview from Profile Magazine. His first full poetry collection - The Mason's Tongue (Abbey Press, 1999) - was shortlisted for the 2001 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Literary Prize and was nominated for the 2001 Irish Times Prize for Poetry. He is co-editor of a major new anthology entitled A Conversation Piece: Poetry and Art (The Ulster Museum in association with Abbey Press, June 2002). His latest publications are The Tin God, a history of Cans Metal Box factory, Portadown which was recently shortlisted for the 'Celebrating Our Local History' Competition by the Northern Ireland Publications Resource; and Insights (as editor), an anthology of poetry from The Dungannon Visually-Impaired Group which was recently awarded Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council's Achievement Award. |
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| Home Molly Rice's Bio Project Photos Belfast Lough Arts Project Book Publications Book Reviews Guestbook/Map Education Pg. Abbey Press Poetry, Drama & Ed. Links The Mason's Tongue Poetry Web Awards |
| Black and White headshot of Adrian Rice Copyright: Leon McAuley |
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| click here to read Adrian's PROFESSING POETRY Published in the Pushkin Trust Magazine 2004 |
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| photos: Gerald Crimble |