John Ormond is one of the finest of a generation of Anglo-Welsh poets which includes Dannie Abse and Leslie Norris. This long-awaited Selected Poems makes a thematic selection from his long career, influenced early by his friends Dylan Tomas and Vernon Watkins. Ormond soon found his own voice, however, writing poems of passion and precision. his work probes and questions complex areas of feeling, and celebrates the world of nature and art.

"John Ormond's poems about people are infallibly accurate and compassionate under the surface of humour. His eye for details is immensely zestful, he is technically adept and varied, and is prepared to try a different, more ambitious manner, and can bring it off. A poet full of individuality."
New Statesman

"Ormond confronts us with the elemental joys and sorrows of our own lives, with the beauty and fragility of creation; and returns us to the world with a sharpened sense of its wonder and value."
World Literature Today

John Ormond (1923-1990) was born at Dunvant, and educated at University College, Swansea. After an early career as a print journalist he became an outstanding documentary film maker at the BBC.