Frank Ormsby: The Parkinson's Poems from ghost videos 2015 Watch Video
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Description: Frank Ormsby introduces and reads three poems from The Parkinson’s Poems, from his 2017 collection The Darkness of Snow: ‘Agitans’, ‘Side Effects (1)’ and ‘Once a Day’. These are from 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.nnNeil Astley filmed Frank Ormsby reading and discussing his work at his home in Belfast in April 2019. Separate videos are posted of him reading s
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