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Popular poet and novelist Anne Simpson gives reading on November 20
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Anne Simpson, one of Atlantic Canada’s finest poets and novelists, and a popular creative writing teacher, returns to PEI with a new novel, Falling. She will give a reading on Thursday, November 20, at 7:30 p.m., at the Confederation Centre Art Galley in Charlottetown. A reception and book signing will follow.
Simpson lives in Antigonish, where she teaches part-time and coordinates the Great Blue Heron Writing Workshop at St. Francis Xavier University.
In Falling, on a Nova Scotian shore, a young woman makes a mistake that claims her life, while down the beach, her brother Damian is unaware she is drowning. Beginning with this shattering event, Simpson’s mesmerizing novel takes us to Niagara Falls, where Damian and his mother Ingrid scatter Lisa’s ashes and visit Ingrid’s estranged brother, once a famous daredevil of the Falls, now blind and mentally disabled. Old wounds and new misunderstandings collide.
Her first book of poetry, Light Falls Through You, won the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the national Gerald Lampert Award for best first poetry book. Her second collection, Loop, won Canada’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2003 Governor General’s Award. Quick, her third poetry book, won the 2007 Pat Lowther Award for best poetry collection by a Canadian woman. Her first novel, Canterbury Beach, was shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Award in Nova Scotia.
Anne Simpson’s reading is sponsored by the UPEI Department of English, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, and The Canada Council for the Arts.
Simpson lives in Antigonish, where she teaches part-time and coordinates the Great Blue Heron Writing Workshop at St. Francis Xavier University.
In Falling, on a Nova Scotian shore, a young woman makes a mistake that claims her life, while down the beach, her brother Damian is unaware she is drowning. Beginning with this shattering event, Simpson’s mesmerizing novel takes us to Niagara Falls, where Damian and his mother Ingrid scatter Lisa’s ashes and visit Ingrid’s estranged brother, once a famous daredevil of the Falls, now blind and mentally disabled. Old wounds and new misunderstandings collide.
Her first book of poetry, Light Falls Through You, won the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the national Gerald Lampert Award for best first poetry book. Her second collection, Loop, won Canada’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2003 Governor General’s Award. Quick, her third poetry book, won the 2007 Pat Lowther Award for best poetry collection by a Canadian woman. Her first novel, Canterbury Beach, was shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Award in Nova Scotia.
Anne Simpson’s reading is sponsored by the UPEI Department of English, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, and The Canada Council for the Arts.
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