Francis Harvey (poet)
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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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[1] He has also won The Irish Times/Yeats Summer School Prize.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Harvey, Francis, 1997-06-22, The Lost Fathers. (Poem), The Literary Review.
- ^ a b Irish Writers Online, Francis Harvey.
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