Books by Linda France

Linda France was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives close to Hadrian's Wall, near Hexham, in Northumberland. Her eight full-length poetry collections include The Simultaneous Dress (Bloodaxe Books, 2002) and The Toast of the Kit Cat Club (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), a biography in verse of the 18th century traveller and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; book of days, a year renga, with ceramic fragments by Sue Dunne (Smokestack Books, 2009), You are Her (Arc Publications, 2010) and Reading the Flowers (Arc Publications, 2016). Linda also edited the acclaimed anthology Sixty Women Poets (Bloodaxe 1993), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her poem 'Bernard and Cerinthe' won the Poetry Society's 2013 National Poetry Competition.