The Darkness of Snow is Frank Ormsby's most varied and versatile
collection to date. It includes three substantial sets of poems
whose themes are refreshingly and sometimes painfully new. One is a
suite of poems - sombre, good-humoured, flippant - about the early
stages of Parkinson's Disease. Ormsby was diagnosed as having the
disease in 2011. Another was prompted by the work of Irish painters
in Normandy, Brittany and Belgium at the end of the 19th century.
There are also further explorations of his boyhood years in
Fermanagh, while poems set in Belfast reflect the aftermath of the
Troubles and celebrate the city's current phase of recovery and
restoration. The book ends with a narrative poem about the trial of
an unnamed tyrant in which we learn about the Accused (as he is
called), about the villagers who have travelled to bear witness to
the atrocities carried out in the village, and about one of the
interpreters, who understands the slipperiness of Truth. The
Darkness of Snow covers work written since Frank Ormsby's
retrospective, Goat's Milk: New & Selected Poems (2015). His
broad range and eye for the particular combine to make this an
exceptional collection. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Shortlisted for a National Book Circle Critics Award.
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