Frank Ormsby

Frank Ormsby

Francis Arthur 'Frank' Ormsby (born near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland in 1947) is a Northern Irish poet.

He was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen and Queen's University Belfast. He was editor of The Honest Ulsterman from 1969 to 1989, and has also edited the Poetry Ireland Review. Since 1976 he has been Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.

In 1992 he received the Cultural Traditions Award, given in memory of John Hewitt, and in 2002 the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the University of St. Thomas at St Paul, Minnesota.

Publications

* Ripe for Company (Belfast, Ulsterman Publications, 1971)
* A Store of Candles (Oxford University Press, 1977)
* A Northern Spring (London, Secker & Warburg, 1986)
* The Ghost Train (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1995)

* Edited volumes
** Poets from the North of Ireland (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1979 revised edition, 1990)
** Thine in Storm and Calm: An Amanda McKittrick Ros Reader" (Blackstaff Press, 1988)
** The Collected Poems of John Hewitt" (Blackstaff Press, 1991)
** Northern Windows: An Anthology of Ulster Autobiography" (Blackstaff Press, 1987)
** The Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland" (Blackstaff Press, 2001)
**

ee also

*List of Northern Irish writers


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