jazz singer, composer and music director Ian Shaw released the critically acclaimed album A Ghost In Every Bar (The Lyrics of Fran Landesman) as a tribute to Landesman. Accompanied by Simon Wallace, four of these songs had never been released before. Shaw had become a close friend of Landesman after working with her son Miles and recorded single tracks with her lyrics on six albums in his back catalogue, but this album fulfilled a promise he made to her to devote an entire album to her songs. In 1996, Fran Landesman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs and requested a supply of cannabis seeds as her luxury item. The BBC received a number of complaints."Cannabis Campaign: Tune in for a desert island spliff", The Independent, May 24, 1998 Poetry and performance In the 1970s, Fran Landesman also began writing and publishing poetry. In the UK she became better known for this work than for her songs. She published several volumes of poetry, and performed her work at festivals and on BBC Radio. In the last 10 years of her life, Landesman performed more frequently, often in evenings when she would recite her poetry, sing her songs, and occasionally talk about her life and work. In 2003, she appeared in New York at Joe's Pub with Jackie Cain and Bob Dorough. In October 2008, she returned to St Louis to do a one-woman show at the Gaslight Theatre. Throughout 2010 and 2011, Landesman made bi-monthly appearances at RADA for Farrago poetry, and every six months hosted a lunchtime concert at the 606 Club in London. In May 2010, the South Bank Centre presented A Night Out with Fran Landesman at the Purcell Room, and in April 2011 the Leicester Square Theatre presented An Evening with Fran Landesman as part of the Art of Song Festival. Her last appearance was at RADA on July 21, 2011, two days before her death at the age of 83. References External links Official website State Historical Society of Missouri — biographical introduction "Biography for Fran Landesman", Women of the Beat Frances Dietsch Landesman obituary, St. Louis Beacon'' (July 23, 2011) Obituary in The New York Times, August 1, 2011 1927 births 2011 deaths 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women American expatriates in the United Kingdom American lyricists American women poets Fashion Institute of Technology