Frank Ormsby

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Francis Arthur Ormsby (born 1947) is an author and poet from Northern Ireland. [1]

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Life

Frank Ormsby was born in Irvinestown, County Fermanagh. He was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen and then Queen's University Belfast.

From 1976 until his retirement in 2010, he was Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. [2]

Work

Over a period of fifty years he has published ten books of poetry and has also edited another ten collections.

From 1969 to 1989 he was editor of The Honest Ulsterman . [3] He has also edited the Poetry Ireland Review .

Ormsby was appointed as the Ireland Professor of Poetry in 2019, to serve a three-year term between Trinity College Dublin, Queen's University Belfast and University College Dublin.

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Edited volumes

Recordings

List of poems

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Bog cotton2013Ormsby, Frank (4 March 2013). "Bog cotton". The New Yorker . Vol. 89, no. 3. p. 26. Retrieved 6 May 2015.

Prizes and awards

References

  1. Frank Ormsby profile Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Frank Ormsby: Life at Inst was very different from my upbringing, belfasttelegraph.co.uk, 23 March 2015; accessed 14 July 2016.
  3. De Breffny, Brian (1983). Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopedia. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 176.
  4. "Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award". University of St. Thomas. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  5. De Breffny, pg. 176.

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