Adrian Rice

Originally from Belfast, now living with his family in Hickory NC, Adrian Rice has established himself as a poet on both sides of the Atlantic. Muck Island, a collaboration with Irish artist Ross Wilson, is housed in The Tate Gallery, and The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Mason’s Tongue was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Literary Prize, and was nominated for the Irish Times Prize for Poetry. Hickory Station was nominated for the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, and a poem from Hickory Station, “Breath”, first published in the Asheville Poetry Review, was a Pushcart Prize nomination, and a (London) Guardian ‘Poem of the Week’. Rice also plays with The Belfast Boys, an Irish Traditional duo, whose album, Songs For Crying Out Loud, regularly airs across the Carolinas. He is a Lecturer in First Year Seminar at Appalachian State University, where he is also working on his doctoral dissertation, ‘An Education in Poetry: Learning through Poems’. His latest book is The Strange Estate: New & Selected Poems 1986-2017 (Press 53)