Francis Harvey (poet)

Francis Harvey (poet)

Francis Harvey is a poet and playwright. He was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland in 1925. Harvey has lived in County Donegal for most of his life.Harvey, Francis, 1997-06-22, [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-300732_ITM The Lost Fathers. (Poem)] , "The Literary Review".] His collections of poetry include "In the Light on the Stones" (1978), "The Rainmakers" (1988), "The Boa Island Janus" (1996), "Making Space, New & Selected Poems" (2000), and "Collected Poems" (2007), which has an introduction by Moya Cannon. He has also written successful plays.Irish Writers Online, [http://www.irishwriters-online.com/francisharvey.html Francis Harvey.] ]

Harvey's poem "Heron" won the 1989 "Guardian" and World Wildlife Fund Poetry Competition. In 1990 he won a Peterloo Poets Prize and was a prizewinner in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. He received an Arts Council Bursary in 1991. He has also won The Irish Times/Yeats Summer School Prize.

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