Hip Flask

Frank Ormsby was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in 1947 and educated at St Michael’s College, Enniskillen, and Queen’s University Belfast.



He was editor of The Honest Ulsterman from 1969 to 1989, and has also edited a number of anthologies including Poets from the North of Ireland, A Rage for Order: Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles, The Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland and The Blackbird’s Nest: An Anthology of Poetry from Queen’s University Belfast.



In 2007 he edited John Hewitt: Selected Poems with Michael Longley.



He is the author of four collections of poetry: A Store of Candles, A Northern Spring (both Choices of the Poetry Book Society), The Ghost Train and Fireflies.



Frank is former head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and is the current editor of The Yellow Nib the literary journal of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, at Queen's University Belfast.