Linda France was born in Newcastle
upon Tyne. After some time living away, she moved back to the
North East in 1981. She is currently based close to Hadrian’s
Wall, near Hexham, in Northumberland. Her poetry collections
include The Simultaneous Dress (Bloodaxe 2002) and The Toast of
the Kit Cat Club (Bloodaxe 2005), a biography in verse of the 18th century
traveller and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Her two latest books are book
of days, a year renga, with ceramic fragments by Sue Dunne (Smokestack
Books 2009) and You are Her (Arc Publications 2010). Linda also edited
the acclaimed anthology Sixty Women Poets (Bloodaxe 1993). She has
worked on a number of collaborations with visual artists and musicians and
around 40 Public Art projects. Linda was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at Moorbank Botanic Garden,
University of Newcastle.
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