Francis Harvey (13 April 1925 – 7 November 2014) was an Irish poet and playwright.
He was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
[1] His collections of poetry include In the Light on the Stones (1978), The Rainmakers (1988), The Boa Island Janus (1996), Making Space, New & Selected Poems (2000), and Collected Poems (2007), which had an introduction by Moya Cannon.
[2] Harvey's poem "Heron" won the 1989 Guardian and World Wildlife Fund Poetry Competition.
In 1990 he won a Peterloo Poets Prize and was a prizewinner in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition.