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About the Author
Frank Ormsby was born in 1947 in Enniskillen and educated at Queen's University, Belfast. He was head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution from 1976 until 2010. As editor of The Honest Ulsterman magazine for twenty years and editor of a number of influential anthologies, such as Poets from the North of Ireland (1979) and A Rage for Order: Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles (1992), he was a central figure in the burgeoning of Ulster poetry since the 1960s. In 1991, he edited The Collected Poems of John Hewitt and in 2007, with Michael Longley, Hewitt's Selected Poems. He has also published eight collections of poems, most recently Goat's Milk: New and Selected Poems (2015), The Darkness of Snow (2017), and The Rain Barrel (2019). His first two books, A Store of Candles (1977) and A Northern Spring (1986) were Poetry Book Society Choices. He was editor, with Leontia Flynn, of the poetry magazine The Yellow Nib. He was the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2019-2022.
Reviews
'There are some poems that come out almost fully formed, but there are others that I have struggled with, and still more that eventually spring from a single line or image that I have stored away.' - RTE Culture, 8 November 2023.; 'Ormsby says his "poems are populated with whole communities of isolated people", which touches upon one meaning of poetry in itself, in this enjoyable, slim book.' - Irish Times, 30 Nov 2023.
Book Information
ISBN 9781910820797
Author Frank Ormsby
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint University College Dublin Press
Publisher University College Dublin Press