Francis Harvey (13 April 1925 â€" 7 November 2014) was an Irish poet
and playwright. He was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland. Harvey had 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
had an introduction by Moya Cannon. He had 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 had
also won The Irish Times/Yeats Summer School Prize.[2] On 7 November
2014, he died at the age of 89.[3] He was a member of Aosdána.
and playwright. He was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland. Harvey had 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
had an introduction by Moya Cannon. He had 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 had
also won The Irish Times/Yeats Summer School Prize.[2] On 7 November
2014, he died at the age of 89.[3] He was a member of Aosdána.
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