Frances has taught poetry writing workshops and courses for a wide range of arts and educational organisations, including the Arvon Foundation, the Poetry School, Cambridge WordFest, Beverley Literature Festival and Hull City Arts.
She has also worked extensively with teenagers and young people as a Poet-in-Residence at St Paul’s Girls’ School, a Writer-in-Residence at South Hampstead High School, a tutor on schools Arvon courses, a mentor for young women poets for the Writing Squad, and a tutor on the Tower Poetry Summer School at Christ Church, Oxford.
If you would like to book Frances for teaching work, please use the contact form to get in touch.
Random Poem
- By The Sea (Emily Dickinson)
I started early, took my dog,
And visited the sea;
The mermaids in the basement
Came out to look at me.
And frigates in the upper floor
Extended hempen hands,
Presuming me to be a mouse
Aground, upon the sands.
But no man moved me till the tide
Went past my simple shoe,
And past my apron and my belt,
And past my bodice too,
And made as he would eat me up
As wholly as a dew
Upon a dandelion's sleeve -
And then I started too.
And he - he followed close behind;
I felt his silver heel
Upon my ankle, - then my shoes
Would overflow with pearl.
Until we met the solid town,
No man he seemed to know;
And bowing with a mighty look
At me, the sea withdrew.
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- By The Sea (Emily Dickinson)
