"...Along with the poetry comes a growing awareness of the independent airs of radical Belfast, of the great dissenting tradition of the past, of an integrationist stance. Birds flying in and out of The Clock Flower poems- blackbirds, sparrows, hawks, jays-put us in mind of John Hewitts lines about staking his future on birds flying in and out of the schoolroom window. Hewitt, and beyond him the nineteenth-century Dr. William Drennan (subject of Rices MPhil thesis), are exemplars for this poet. But Rices voice is distinctively his own: forthright, colloquial, wry and persuasive." -Patricia...
"...Along with the poetry comes a growing awareness of the independent airs of radical Belfast, of the great dissenting tradition of the past, of an i...
Following in the footsteps of what was once mass immigration from Ulster to the Carolinas, Northern Irish poet Adrian Rice has become a modern land breaker of poetic territories. In his new volume, Hickory Station, there are poems of Northern Ireland memories and others of Appalachia and the Low Country. Rice knows how to bear simple and eloquent witness to family life, the reckonings of self, and to distant and adopted homelands. Like many before him, Rice cannot forget the fields and woods outside the porch, the animals that make up the world without us. His poems are concise, poignant, and...
Following in the footsteps of what was once mass immigration from Ulster to the Carolinas, Northern Irish poet Adrian Rice has become a modern land br...
