Frances Corkey Thompson is Irish, and lives in Devon. She performs regularly in Arts Centres and festivals, at home and abroad.

Her range is impressive. In this short first collection she moves, with precise sure-footedness, through the full emotional range - from sheer fun to arresting (and sometimes shocking) poignancy. Influenced in her work as much by early memories as by adult concerns, she stirs to the music of language: her writing sings. And she has the rare ability to say a complex thing simply - one of the hardest things in the world.

'Amidst the personalities and ballyhoo of the contemporary scene, Frances Thompson has simply and quietly been getting on with the poet's real business of writing one decent poem after another.... Spell it out: these well-crafted poems are a pleasure to read.' Andy Brown

 

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Publication November 1st 2008