Anne Compton

Anne Compton (born 1947) is a Canadian poet, critic, and anthologist.

Biography

Compton was born and raised in the farming community of Bangor, Prince Edward Island. Until retiring to write full-time in 2012, Dr. Compton taught literature and creative writing for the Department of Humanities and Languages at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, where she also served as Writer-in-Residence and, for many years, the Director of the Lorenzo Reading Series. She serves on the New Brunswick Arts Board.

Awards and honours In 2007, Compton was a featured writer at the Maritime Writers' Workshop & Literary Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

In 2008, she received the Alden Nowlan Award for excellence in English language literary arts,

In 2012, Compton won the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. 2005

Governor General's Award for English-language poetry Winner

Atlantic Poetry Prize Winner Publications Scholarship A.J.M. Smith: Canadian Metaphysical (1994) The Edge of Home: Milton Acorn from the Island (editor, 2002) Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (co-editor, 2002) Meetings with Maritime Poets (2006)

Poetry Opening the Island (2003) Processional (2005) Asking Questions Indoors and Out (2009) Alongside (2013)

Selected anthologies New Canadian Poetry (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2000) Following the Plough: Recovering the Rural (Black Moss Press, 2000) Landmarks: an Anthology of New Atlantic Poetry (The Acorn Press, 2001) Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010)