Adrian Rice

The poet and editor Adrian Rice was born in Belfast. Being an established poet on the Arts Councils' Writers-in-Schools schemes, he teaches creative writing workshops in schools and 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 (1997), also earned him widespread critical acclaim. He edited Signals (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). He is co-editor of a major new anthology entitled A Conversation Piece: Poetry and Art (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, an anthology of poetry from The Dungannon Visually-Impaired Group which was recently awarded Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council's Achievement Award.