The Clock Flower
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"...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 Hewitt's 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 Rice's MPhil thesis), are exemplars for this poet. But Rice's voice is distinctively his own: forthright, colloquial, wry and persuasive." -Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement
Adrian Rice
Adrian Rice is the Dorothy and Muscoe Garnett Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, USA. He has held visiting positions at the University of Virginia (1998-99) and the University of Oxford (2014-15). His research focuses on the history of mathematics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the work of Augustus De Morgan. Previous books include Mathematics in Victorian Britain, co-edited with Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist, co-authored with Christopher Hollings and Ursula Martin (Bodleian Library, 2018).
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