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Francis lived in Winchester for many years. He worked for ten years in the computer industry. After his time spent in the computer industry, he went back to university to study the work of W. S. Graham. Soon after he edited Graham's New Collected Poems and authored a study on Graham called Where the People Are. [1] He now lives in Wales with his wife, Creina, where he lectures in creative writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. [1] [3]
Amy Wack of Poetry Wales categorized his writing by saying, "Francis's style is clever ebullient, pacey, often brilliant."[ citation needed ] His poem The Ornamental Hermit won him the TLS/Blackwell's Prize 2000. City Autumn won the national Gathering Swallows prize for the best poem by a published poet in response to Keats' To Autumn. His short story collection Singing a Man to Death was shortlisted in the fiction category of the Wales Book of the Year in 2013. [4] In addition to his poetry, Francis also writes on W. S. Graham [5] and Sir John Mandeville [6]
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