Anne Compton is a Canadian poet and critic. She won the Governor General's Award for poetry in English in 2005 for her collection Processional. Processional as well as her first collection Opening the Island also won the Atlantic Poetry Prize. Since their creation in 1937, the Governor Generals Literary Awards have become one of Canadas most prestigious prizes, awarded in both French and English in seven categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Childrens Literature-Text, Childrens Literature-Illustration, and Translation. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
She has also published criticism including a book of interviews: Meetings with Maritime Poets (2006).
Other Publications
A.J.M.Smith: Canadian Metaphysical (1994)
Edge of Home: Milton Acorn from the Island (editor, 2002)
Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (co-editor, 2002)
The Compton Foundation's history began with the far-sighted and compassionate vision of Dorothy and Randolph Compton, a vision which they later passed on to their children.
Ann served in a Navy hospital as a social worker with the American Red Cross.
As a result they focused their funding on the problems of the rapid growth of the human population, the depletion of natural resources due to population growth and increasing consumption levels, the accompanying degradation of the environment, and the chaotic status of human rights in much of the world.
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