Adrian Rice, a Northern Irish poet, now lives in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, in Hickory, North Carolina, from where he commutes to Boone for Doctoral studies at Appalachian State University. One half of the Irish traditional music duo, The Belfast Boys, Adrian's latest poetry books are The Clock Flower and Hickory Station, both from Winston-Salem's Press 53.

Books by Adrian Rice:

Other poems on the web by Adrian Rice:
Four poems

Adrian Rice's Website.

About The Strange Estate:

"The Strange Estate is a rich cache of poetry, a rare word-horde if ever there was one. From the 'breathless sounding/Of the worm's earth-dark' in Muck Island , through the finely-wrought music of 'The Moongate Sonnets', to a quiet voice, on 'The Shadowed Path', that makes the shadows real, Adrian Rice offers poetry that tunes the ear, and awakens mind and heart to share in his unflinching and compassionate attention to the weave of world and words in which we all live. You go back from these poems into your own life alert and alive to so much that you might otherwise have missed."
—Malcolm Guite