Anne Compton

Anne Compton is the author of Processional (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2005), which won the Governor General’s Award for poetry and the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. Opening the Island (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2002) won the Atlantic Poetry Prize and was short- listed for the John and Margaret Savage Award. In 2008, she won the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Literary Arts and a National Magazine Award. She is the author of numerous scholarly works including A.J.M. Smith: Canadian Metaphysical (ECW Press, 1994) and Meetings with Maritime Poets: Interviews (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2006).