Frank Ormsby

Who is Frank Ormsby?

Francis Arthur Ormsby is an 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. From 1976 until his retirement in 2010 he was 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.

Recently he has returned to writing with a new collection Fireflies, published by Carcanet in 2009. The work features poems set in rural Fermanagh, Belfast and America.