Education
Degrees from Queen's University, and graduated in Fine Arts from OCAD University (formerly the Ontario College of Art).
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Loop by Anne Simpson (2003-08-06)
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Anne Simpson
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Simpson received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts Subsequently, she worked as a CUSO volunteer English teacher for two years in Nigeria. She teaches part-time at Saint Francis Xavier University, where she established the Writing Centre. and Writings Loop contains many poems composed in sequences, including notably a poetic demonstration of "Mobius strip", the collection has also been reviewed as containing "poems about history’s nightmares Simpson conducts exhumations and postmortems, and tracks the scars of the human record". lieutenant was long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
She has also written a book of essays on poetics, The Marram Grass: and Otherness (Gaspereau, 2009).
Simpson has been the writer-in-residence at a number of institutions, including the University of New Brunswick, the Medical Humanities Program at Dalhousie University, the Saskatoon Public Library, the University of Prince Edward Island, Dalhousie University, and Memorial University in Saint John"s, Netherlands. She has also been a faculty member at the Banff Centre. She lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Achievements
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Her second collection of poetry, Loop (McClelland & Stewart, 2003), was the winner of the 2004 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. Simpson"s other poetry collections include Light Falls Through You (McClelland & Stewart, 2000), winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize, Quick (McClelland & Stewart, 2007), winner of the Pat Lowther Award, and Is (McClelland & Stewart, 2011) in which Simpson "negotiates an ever changing path between language and structure". Simpson has also has written two novels: Canterbury Beach (Penguin, 2001) and Falling (McClelland & Stewart, 2008), which was a Canadian bestseller and winner of the Dartmouth Fiction Award.
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Awards
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Pat Lowther Award; Governor General's Award; Atlantic Poetry Prize; Journey Prize; Gerald Lampert Award; Griffin Poetry Prize; Thomas Head Raddall Award
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.; The Writers' Trust of Canada, or La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada, is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.; The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet.; The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.; The Writers' Trust of Canada, or La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada, is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.; The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet.; The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.