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Compton was born and raised in the farming community of [[Prince Edward Island|Bangor, Prince Edward Island]]. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Price Edward Island, her Masters from York University and finally her PhD from the University of New Brunswick. She currently teaches [[literature]] and creative writing at the [[University of New Brunswick]] in [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]]. |
Compton was born and raised in the farming community of [[Prince Edward Island|Bangor, Prince Edward Island]]. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Price Edward Island, her Masters from York University and finally her PhD from the University of New Brunswick. <ref>Anne Compton UNB Biographical Information</ref> She currently teaches [[literature]] and creative writing at the [[University of New Brunswick]] in [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]]. |
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==Career and awards== |
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Revision as of 15:03, 14 January 2011
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. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Price Edward Island, her Masters from York University and finally her PhD from the University of New Brunswick. [1] She currently teaches literature and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John.
Career and awards
Her first collection, Opening the Island, was nominated for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award and won the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 2002.[2] Compton won again in 2006 the Atlantic Poetry Prize. It was awarded on April 28, 2006 during a ceremony in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.[3] She won the Governor General's Award for poetry in English in 2005 for her collection Processional. [4][2] Compton has also published criticism, including a book of interviews, Meetings with Maritime Poets (2006).[5]
Compton is an assistant professor in University of New Brunswick Saint John’s Department of Humanities and Languages.[5] She is also the Director of the Lorenzo Reading Series at the University of New Brunswick, and serves on the New Brunswick Arts Board.[2]
Compton was a featured writer at the 2007 Maritime Writers' Workshop & Literary Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
In 2008, she was awarded the Alden Nowlan Award for excellence in English language literary arts, presented by the New Brunswick Arts Board.
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)
Selected anthologies
- New Canadian Poetry (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2000)[6]
- Following the Plough: Recovering the Rural (Black Moss Press, 2000)
- Landmarks: an Anthology of New Atlantic Poetry (The Acorn Press, 2001)