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Frank Ormsby introduces and reads three poems from his 1995 collection The Ghost Train republished in 2015 his Bloodaxe retrospective Goat’s Milk: New & Selected Poems. The poems he reads here are: ‘L’Orangerie’ (from ‘A Paris Honeymoon’), ‘You the Movie’, ‘The Easter Ceasefire’ and ‘Helen’. For more information on Goat's Milk please see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/goat-s-milk-156
Neil Astley filmed Frank Ormsby reading and discussing his work at his home in Belfast in April 2019. Separate videos are posted of him reading selections of poems from each of his three Bloodaxe titles, including three other videos featuring poems from collections included in Goat’s Milk and four other videos featuring poems from his later collections The Darkness of Snow (2017), and The Rain Barrel (2019).
Frank Ormsby has been a central figure in the poetry of Northern Ireland for the past forty years. Born in 1947, in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, he was editor of The Honest Ulsterman from 1969 to 1989, and Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution until retiring in 2010. In 2019 he was appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry for the next three years. In 2015 Bloodaxe published his retrospective Goat’s Milk: New & Selected Poems, drawing on work from four previous collections, A Store of Candles (1977), A Northern Spring (1986), The Ghost Train (1995) and Fireflies (2009) as well as a collection of new poems. This was followed by two later collections, The Darkness of Snow (2017), and The Rain Barrel (2019).
Frank Ormsby introduces and reads three poems from his 1995 collection The Ghost Train republished in 2015 his Bloodaxe retrospective Goat’s Milk: New & Selected Poems. The poems he reads here are: ‘L’Orangerie’ (from ‘A Paris Honeymoon’), ‘You the Movie’, ‘The Easter Ceasefire’ and ‘Helen’. For more information on Goat's Milk please see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/goat-s-milk-156
Neil Astley filmed Frank Ormsby reading and discussing his work at his home in Belfast in April 2019. Separate videos are posted of him reading selections of poems from each of his three Bloodaxe titles, including three other videos featuring poems from collections included in Goat’s Milk and four other videos featuring poems from his later collections The Darkness of Snow (2017), and The Rain Barrel (2019).
Frank Ormsby has been a central figure in the poetry of Northern Ireland for the past forty years. Born in 1947, in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, he was editor of The Honest Ulsterman from 1969 to 1989, and Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution until retiring in 2010. In 2019 he was appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry for the next three years. In 2015 Bloodaxe published his retrospective Goat’s Milk: New & Selected Poems, drawing on work from four previous collections, A Store of Candles (1977), A Northern Spring (1986), The Ghost Train (1995) and Fireflies (2009) as well as a collection of new poems. This was followed by two later collections, The Darkness of Snow (2017), and The Rain Barrel (2019).
