| Book Reviews |
| Read Patrick Crotty's Review of Adrian Rice's The Mason's Tongue: Bemused Dismay at plainspoken values' The Irish Times, Sat. April 22nd 2000 |
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| More reviews to come ... |
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| Read Poet Ruth Padel's Review of Adrian Rice's Impediments |
| Read Conor O'Callaghan's Review of Adrian Rice's The Mason's Tongue: Taking Up the Reins, Poetry Ireland Review Spring 2000 |
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| Read Fred Johnston's Review of Adrian Rice's The Mason's Tongue: Retaining Our Souls, Books Ireland May 2000 |
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| Read Kevin Higgins' Review of Adrian Rice's The Mason's Tongue: The Burning Bush Spring 2000 |
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| 'Adrian Rice has a nice sense of what he is up to as a poet: I like and admire the way his district and his diction are so artfully tongue-in-cheek and hand-in-glove'. - Seamus Heaney |
| 'The poems of The Mason's Tongue are brave children of an imagination rich with the tradition of radical dissent. Bright and plain-spoken, they must be seen and heard.' - Ian Duhig |
| 'This is a book in plain language about plain people. It shares their suspicion of excessive speech - of ornamentation, rhetoric, floweriness of feeling or surface ... [it] seems, sadly and genuinely, to soulsearch on behalf of its community and therefore do it honour.' - Ruth Padel |
| 'Deft, exact, laconic, The Mason's Tongue is a collection to be savoured.' - Tom Paulin |
| The Mason's Tongue was nominated for the Irish Times Prize for Poetry & was the only poetry book shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Literary Prize in 2002. |
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| As Editor, Adrian Rice's books have won awards: Signals: An Anthology of Poetry & Prose - Times Education Supplement 'Paperback Choice' The Tin God: A History of the Cans Metal Box Factory, Portadown. shortlisted for the 'Celebrating Our Local History' Competition - Northern Ireland Publications Resource Insights: An Anthology of Poetry from the Dungannon Visually Impaired Group. awarded Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council's Achievement Award |