Linda France | |
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.jpg) France at the 2014 Durham Book Festival | |
| Born | 21 May 1958 Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Education | University of Leeds |
| Notable works | Reading the Flowers |
| Notable awards | National Poetry Competition |
| Website | |
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Linda France is a British poet, writer and editor. She has published eight full-length poetry collections, a number of pamphlets, and was editor of the influential anthology, Sixty Women Poets. France is the author of The Toast of the Kit-Cat Club, a verse biography of the eighteenth-century traveler and social rebel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She has won numerous awards and fellowships, including the National Poetry Competition in 2013 and the Laurel Prize in 2022.