Darkness of Snow

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 ...