Chris Rice

Chris Rice was a founder member of a London poetry group, The Pembridge Poets, in the mid-1970s with Robert Greacen, Matthew Sweeney and Tim Dooley. In 2011, he started to write poetry again after a twenty-year silence. Since then, his work has been placed or short/longlisted in competitions and published widely in magazines, including Acumen, The London Magazine, Magma, The Poetry Review and Poetry Salzburg Review. Extracts from a literary memoir, Diary of a Pembridge Poet, can be found online at The London Magazine. Scottish actress Stella Gonet can be seen on YouTube reading his poem ‘Kingfisher’ at an event in Richmond Park to celebrate the reopening of its Poet’s Corner (2015). A collection of early poems, Call of Nature, was published in 2013 (Lapwing, Belfast). In Transit is his second collection.