From the Governor-General's Award-winning poet, a brilliant and provocative book of essays, responding to patterns in current literature and thought. The writing is intimate, improvisational, enthusiastic. Compton considers among many topics, how the writer changes in retirement; the obsession with the house in fiction; the role of place in poetry; the relationship between poetry and the visual arts; and contemporary notions of the beautiful.
Anne Compton
is the author of four books of poetry, including Alongside, winner of the Raymond Souster Award. She received the Governor-General's Award for Poetry for Processional, and twice won the Atlantic Poetry Prize. She was also awarded the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in English Language Literary Arts.
"Throughout the collection, Compton returns to themes that have occupied her throughout her career: home, childhood, history, science, and writing. She discusses compiling anthologies (she edited both Modern Canadian Poets and New Canadian Poetry) with generosity and intimacy, characteristics that return in the book's closing piece, "The Listener." Ultimately, distinctions between the personal essays and the scholarly ones don't affect a reader's experience; Afterwork is accessible, insightful, and filled with clarity and guidance."
— Quill and Quire
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