She has published eight full-length poetry collections, a number of pamphlets, and was editor of the influential anthology, Sixty Women Poets.

France is the author of The Toast of the Kit-Cat Club, a verse biography of the eighteenth-century traveler and social rebel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

[4] France's second collection, The Gentleness of the Very Tall, was published by Bloodaxe in 1995 and was long-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

In 1997, Bloodaxe published Storyville, a collaboration authored by France, artist Birtley Aris and musicians Keith Morris and Lewis Watson.

Many of the poems in this collection deal with France's journey of grief and healing due to a serious horse-riding accident in 1995, and a number of deaths of close friends.

[8] France was inspired in 2018 to write the poem Portrait of the Artist as an Island Flower by the paintings of plants made by Margaret Dickinson around 1874 after visiting Lindisfarne with the Berwickshire Naturalists Club.

[10] She was the inaugural Environmental Poet of the Year 2022-23 in the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets for Letters to Katłįà published by The Wordsworth Trust.