Processional

by Anne Compton

Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry.

Processional is Anne Compton’s second book of poems, the follow-up to her widely-acclaimed, award-winning debut, Opening the Island.
Here Compton is at the head of a poetic procession, a guide leading readers through a house affected by both daily life and the extraordinary - stopping only to take in the change of seasons and prepare the outside yard for it. With one breath, she tells of life and death, with the next, play and metaphysics, joy and heartbreak.
She is a guide like no other, accomplished and versatile, leading by example and from a distance at the same time.

About the Author

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 A.J.M. Smith: Canadian Metaphysical and numerous critical essays, she has also published one other collection of poetry, Opening the Island, and a collection of Milton Acorn’s poetry, The Edge of Home. In 2002, she co-edited the anthology, Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada.
Anne Compton lives in Rothesay, N.B.