The Tumbling Paddy by Frank Ormsby tayi tibble of climate

of climate

Soar too close to the sun with Inua Ellam's timely story of a young refugee girl

a teenager who has leapt from a railway viaduct

the interplay of words and pictures generates a fractal

and detour

The Tumbling Paddy by Frank Ormsby tayi tibble of climateFrank Ormsby's eighth collection of poems is, on the whole, a playful book which constantly surprises us with serious themes. History is the word and history the image, whether as in a dream about Auschwitz or a portrait of the History Club on its annual outing. Then spirit of place is richly imagined, whether in the form of 'Juggy', the 'simpleton' sleepwalking through the estate, or the humanised tumbling paddy, both clumsy celebrant and instrument