The World Unmade

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By Frank Ormsby

Series: The Poet's Chair

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The World Unmade by Frank Ormsby offers a collection of poems that delve into the complex history and culture of Northern Ireland, with a focus on the Troubles. The poems reveal the absurdities and fragilities of history and examine its enduring influence on the present day, reflecting Ormsby's editorial experience and poetic insight.
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This collection will appeal to readers interested in poetry, modern Irish culture, and historical reflections through verse, especially those drawn to the literary representation of Northern Ireland's recent past.

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.

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Poems with a sharp eye for the absurdities and fragilities of history, as well as history's 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 Queen's 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.

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Critics highlight the collection's thoughtful formation, noting that some poems emerge fully realised while others grow from simple images or lines. Ormsby's work is praised for populating its verses with isolated communities, adding depth to the exploration of poetry's role, making it an enjoyable and insightful read.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781910820797

Publisher: University College Dublin Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 June 2023

Country: Ireland

Imprint: University College Dublin Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 250g

Pages: 200

Collections

Arts & Culture Frank Ormsby Non-Fiction Poetry Series: The Poet's Chair

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.