Anne Compton featured poet at odd sundays at molly’s

Sunday, April 15, 2007, 2 pm
Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Featured reader Anne Compton is a poet, critic, and anthologist. Born and raised on Prince Edward Island, she currently teaches literature and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. The author of numerous critical essays, she has also edited a collection of Milton Acorn’s poetry. Compton’s book of poetry, Opening the Island, was a winner of the 2003 Atlantic Poetry Prize and a nominee for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, 2002. She co-edited Coastlines, an anthology of poetry from Atlantic Canadians. Her book of poetry, Processional (Fitzhenry & Whiteside), won the 2005 Governor General’s Award for Poetry.

"She is scholarly and elegant, her spine straight as an English schoolteacher's; she slouches in her chair and orders a beer with the gusto and relief of a working man. The poetry she writes hides layer upon layer of meaning; she is open and direct, asking as many questions as she, well, evades. She is sharp, she is ruthless; she is kind and always, always, hospitable. Compton's language is like the poet herself, spare but beautiful, inviting you to take a closer look, to see what might lie behind the simple facade." —Telegraph Journal

"Anne Compton's Processional is both a still-life and a tableau, with moments of perfect stillness and of passionate arrival. This book skillfully marries history to the present, and pulls the everyday into light." —Governor General Jury's Comments

Open Set: Bring lyrics, fiction, drama, or music to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it.

Please join us at 2 pm on Sunday, April 15 at Molly’s Coffee House for an afternoon engaged with literature.

For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. (Just say yes to poetry.)