In the newest edition to the Poet's Chair series, Frank Ormsby explores the structuring of his next collection The Tumbling Paddy. In it he extends the range of his most recent poems. He examines middle class life in Northern Ireland, for example, a grouping largely ignored, and explores his own experience as editor of a literary magazine and a number of anthologies during the Troubles. 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 Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, John Montague, Paul Durcan, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Michael Longley, Harry Clifton and Paula Meehan.
