{"product_id":"goats-milk-9781780371252","title":"Goat's Milk","description":"\u003cb\u003eIntroduced by Michael Longley, \u003ci\u003eGoat's Milk\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Frank Ormsby, a central figure in the poetry of Northern Ireland for the past forty years. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as a whole collection of new poems, it includes work from his four previous collections: \u003ci\u003eA Store of Candles\u003c\/i\u003e (1977),\u003ci\u003e A Northern Spring\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Train\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and \u003ci\u003eFireflies\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). In his most recent poems Ormsby brings a new directness and simplicity to bear on the rural Fermanagh of his boyhood. A series of vignettes evokes his formative years, both his experience of division and loss (the impact of his father's death is a constant theme in his work), but also the enriching aspects of family and community and of the natural world. These poems deepen and extend themes central to the earlier work. They also reflect what \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Companion to Irish Literature\u003c\/i\u003e describes as Ormsby's gift for a 'poetry of resonant minutiae' which 'celebrates the neglected recesses of the commonplace'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoat's Milk\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frank Ormsby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42961796464758,"sku":"9781780371252","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_5f95f4d2-091a-4d50-9aca-ae7c24185f3c.jpg?v=1767861046","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/goats-milk-9781780371252","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}