Typically unsentimental, shapely and meticulously crafted, his are the poems of a sensibility which delights in explorations, probes complex themes and problematical areas of feeling, and refuses to settle for easy answers. In addition to his writing Ormond had a distinguished career with BBC Wales as a director and producer of documentary films, which include studies of Welsh painters and writers such as Ceri Richards, Kyffin Williams, Dylan Thomas, Alun Lewis and R.S. Thomas. The insight and visual awareness which mark his films also inform his poetry, a selection of which was published in the Penguin Modern Poets series. This Collected Poems draws together all of Ormonds work, including unpublished material. It includes an Introduction by the editor, Michael Collins, notes and commentary of the poems re their geneses, backgrounds, allusions and meanings, and a bibliography of Ormonds prose writing, films and writing about him.