The World Unmade by Frank Ormsby Hardcover Book

Description: The World Unmade by Frank Ormsby In The World Unmade Frank Ormsby explores the poetic diversity of Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the poetry of the Troubles. He draws on his own experience as editor of a literary magazine and a number of anthologies. He retains a sharp eye for the absurdities and fragilities of history, as well as its impact on the present. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Poems with a sharp eye for the absurdities and fragilities of history, as well as historys impact on the present. In The World Unmade, Frank Ormsby explores the poetic diversity of Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the poetry of the Troubles. He draws on his own experience as editor of a literary magazine and a number of anthologies. He also explores the structuring of his next collection, The Tumbling Paddy, which extends the range of his most recent poems. He retains a sharp eye for the absurdities and fragilities of history, as well as its impact on the present. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queens University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and the Arts Council 1/An Chomhairle Ealaion. Other poets in the series include Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, John Montague, Paul Durcan, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Michael Longley, Harry Clifton, and Paula Meehan. Author Biography Frank Ormsby was born in 1947 in Enniskillen and educated at Queens 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, Hewitts Selected Poems. He has also published eight collections of poems, most recently Goats 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. Review 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. Details ISBN1910820792 Author Frank Ormsby Publisher University College Dublin Press Series The Poets Chair Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781910820797 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-06-01 Imprint University College Dublin Press Country of Publication Ireland Audience General Pages 200 DEWEY 821.914 AU Release Date 2024-03-06 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159126008;

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