The rain barrel / Frank Ormsby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ormsby, Frank, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Northern Irish authors--21st century.

English poetry.

English poetry--Northern Irish authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

109 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First North American edition.

Place of Publication:

Winston-Salem, NC : Wake Forest University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Untroubled p. 13

The Black Kettle p. 14

The Beekeeper p. 15

Fuchsia p. 16

The Wild Dog Rose p. 17

Foxgloves p. 18

The Butterfly House p. 19

Roman Laurel p. 20

Cows (1) p. 21

Cows (2) p. 22

Cows (3) p. 23

At the Elvis Convention p. 24

The Sound of Trains p. 25

Seaside p. 26

The Disappeared p. 27

Today There Has Been Information p. 28

Dawn Chorus, with Painting by Joan Miró p. 29

Towards an Elegy p. 31

Small Things p. 33

Small World (4) p. 34

From A Belfast Journal p. 36

Saying Goodbye to the Family p. 38

White-Throated Sparrow p. 39

The Love Poem p. 40

Convalescence p. 41

The Bookmark p. 42

Secondhand

1 The Secondhand Bookshop p. 43

2 The Secondhand Book p. 43

Nits p. 44

Evening on the Farm: Early Winter p. 46

Poem Beginning and Ending with a Drunken Poet p. 47

The Poets p. 48

The Launch p. 49

With Seamus Heaney in Mind

1 The Poet's Death p. 50

2 At the Graveside p. 50

3 Visiting the Grave p. 50

Starlings

1 A Big Hand p. 51

2 Every Curve p. 51

3 Élite p. 51

4 Starlings at Play p. 52

The Kingfisher p. 53

Autumnal p. 54

The Last Leaf in the Garden p. 55

Fums and Porringers p. 56

The Urban Fox p. 57

Scarecrow p. 58

The Suitcase p. 59

At a Railway Station, Calcutta p. 60

Winter Landscape with Searchers p. 61

He Was the Eighth to Go Missing p. 62

Billy Robinson's Kawasaki p. 63

Abandoned Gardens p. 64

Some Farmyard Buckets p. 65

The Hatchet p. 66

Custodians p. 67

There Will Be a Knock p. 68

Wake in Progress p. 69

Sleeping and Forgetting p. 70

The Bomb p. 71

The Security Man p. 72

Chagall's Goats p. 73

Aristotle Reaches Fermanagh p. 74

Rosary p. 75

Rains p. 76

Pulse p. 77

The Rain Barrel

2 We Acquire the Rain Barrel p. 78

3 Notes Towards a Portrait of the Rain Barrel p. 79

4 A Busy Life p. 79

5 The Rain Barrel in the Snow p. 80

6 In the Family p. 80

7 Two Old Warriors p. 80

8 Still Life p. 81

9 Lost Lives p. 81

10 Romance p. 82

11 Interlude, with Girls p. 82

12 The Rain Barrel and the Full Moon p. 83

13 Photograph, with Rain Barrel p. 83

14 The Rain Barrel and the Sparrows p. 84

15 Another Use for a Rain Barrel p. 84

16 Lightning and the Rain Barrel p. 85

17 Some Other Duties for a Rain Barrel p. 85

18 The Butt p. 86

When She Died, Thinking of Him p. 87

No Closure p. 88

Rain Flowers p. 89

Grace Before Meals p. 90

The Dogs p. 91

Beyond the Walls

1 By the River p. 92

2 Miss Brightly p. 92

3 The Peacock p. 92

4 Souvenir p. 92

The Grey Squirrel p. 93

Sharing Beds p. 94

The Parents Wait p. 95

Parents p. 96

Visitors, 4 a.m p. 98

The Roundabout p. 99

All He Remembered p. 100

Our Woods Were Friendly p. 101

The Two Trees p. 102

Thaw p. 103

Running Water p. 104

After Fernando Pessoa p. 105.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 109).

ISBN:

9781930630895

1930630891

OCLC:

1143825434