Tom French (poet)

For similarly named people, see Thomas French.

Tom French (born 1966 Kilkenny) is an Irish poet.

Life

He graduated from National University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Limerick.

He lives in Dublin and works for the library service in County Wicklow.

His work appeared in Literary Review, Stand, Force 10, Writing in the West, Irish Review.

Awards

• Ted McNulty prize
• 2002 Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection

Works

• "The Posthole". Studies:An Irish Quarterly Review. Summer 2000. http://www.studiesirishreview.ie/j/page446. 
• "Snow Angel", The Manchester Review, October 2008
• "SRAHNAMANRAGH", The Manchester Review, October 2008
• "Wind Chime", The Manchester Review, October 2008
• "PADDY MEEGAN’S ‘From The Life Around Me’", The Manchester Review, October 2008
• "Real Estate", The Manchester Review, March 2009

• Touching the Bones. Gallery Books. 2001. 
• The Blood Line

External links

• "Raw and Rural", The Poetry Society
• "Over The Edge Celebrates Sixth Birthday with Reading by Tom French"
• Selina Guinness, ed. (2004). The new Irish poets. Bloodaxe. ISBN 9781852246730.