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Frank Ormsby: I would hate to be remembered as the poet with Parkinson's

Frank Ormsby: I would hate to be remembered as the poet with Parkinson's | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
FRANK Ormsby does not want to be known as the 'Parkinson's poet', though, of all the poems in his new collection The Darkness of Snow, he's had the biggest response to those about his condition.
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Review: Frank Ormsby – The Parkinson’s Poems

Review: Frank Ormsby – The Parkinson’s Poems | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
What might one expect from a pamphlet exclusively on the theme of living with Parkinson’s Disease? Melancholy? Self-pity? Refusal? Having been diagnosed in 2011, Frank Ormsby says he felt “little i…
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Review: Gerard Smyth: A Song of Elsewhere; Frank Ormsby: Goat’s Milk; Enda Wylie: Borrowed Space

Review: Gerard Smyth: A Song of Elsewhere; Frank Ormsby: Goat’s Milk; Enda Wylie: Borrowed Space | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Other lives and other places captured in verse
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The New Yorker: Frank Ormsby audio “Visiting the Grave”

Poetry: “We visit your grave on week-days, you who dressed / the ordinary week-day in its Sunday best.”
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Introducing: Goat’s Milk by Frank Ormsby

Introducing: Goat’s Milk by Frank Ormsby | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
The newest collection by Frank Ormsby is here, and it marks the first time his work has been published in North America.
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Frank Ormsby: Life at Inst was very different from my upbringing

Frank Ormsby: Life at Inst was very different from my upbringing | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it

Frank Ormsby sits in the study of his beautifully-appointed 1930s home in north Belfast there is no hint of his much more austere upbringing. As befits the workspace of a poet and lo

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