Frank
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Occupation | Retired/For now. |
| Location | Meath, Ireland |
| Introduction | A member of the Meath Writers'Circle in Ireland since 2001 and a once a upon a time Teacher/Instructor in Telecommunications. Now that's too much. Winner of The Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award Poetry/Saggart Dublin 2009,runner up Boyle Literary Festival Poetry 2008, 2nd Dromineer Literary Festival Poetry 2007 and Shortlisted Goldsmith International Poetry Festival, 2005, 2007 and 2014 and Highly Commended and Shortlisted in many others as well. Joint third Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award Saggart 2013. Third in the Goldsmith Poetry Competition 2015. Final Four Humorous Essay Listowel Writers Week 2017. Honourable Mention, Frederick Douglass Poetry Competition 2021 and short listed Trim Poetry Festival 2021. Must Stop! |
| Interests | Interesting things, poetry that runs, Walking on back roads and dogs, OK with dogs. |
| Favorite Movies | High Noon, Shane, The Long Riders, True Grit, The Unforgiven, Casablanca, The Godfather, The Roaring Twenties, Sullivan's Travels, Schindler's List, This Gun for Hire, The Blade Runner, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, Withnail and I. |
| Favorite Music | Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan The Beatles, Jimmy McCarthy, Shane McGowan, the theme from the Mission, Leonard Cohen, Eric Bogle. |
| Favorite Books | My own "The Marginal Line" A must have! Trafford Publishing/Poetry Also my latest book, (Excursions), Please see website for details. |