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Anne Simpson


Anne Simpson is the author of three books of poetry, Light Falls Through You, winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize; Loop, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry; and, most recently, Quick. Her first novel, Canterbury Beach, was shortlisted for the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. In 1997 her short story “Dreaming Snow” shared the Journey Prize, and in 1999 she was awarded the Bliss Carman Poetry Award. Simpson lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where she helped establish the Writing Centre at St. Francis Xavier...

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Trade Paperback | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-8051-7 (0-7710-8051-4)

March 29, 2011 | $18.99

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eBook | 112 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
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Falling
Written by Anne Simpson

Trade Paperback | 328 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Family Saga
978-0-7710-8089-0 (0-7710-8089-1)

June 9, 2009 | $19.99

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Falling
Written by Anne Simpson

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ISBN: 9780771080890
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On a late summer day along the shores of Nova Scotia, a young woman makes a mistake that will claim her life, while at the other end of the beach her brother, Damian, is unaware that she is drowning. Beginning with this shattering event, Anne Simpson’s mesmerizing novel unfolds in unexpected...


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Quick
Written by Anne Simpson

eBook | 120 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-1-55199-205-1 (1-55199-205-1)

February 24, 2009 | $13.50

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Quick
Written by Anne Simpson

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ISBN: 9781551992051
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The human body is a world. How it contains all that it does, how it is altered, and how it is transformed after death are the concerns of Quick, a new collection of poetry from one of Canada’s most exciting poets. From the shock of a near-fatal car accident to a...

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Quick
Written by Anne Simpson

Trade Paperback | 120 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-8091-3 (0-7710-8091-3)

April 10, 2007 | $17.99

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Quick
Written by Anne Simpson

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771080913
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The human body is a world. How it contains all that it does, how it is altered, and how it is transformed after death are the concerns of Quick, a new collection of poetry from one of Canada’s most exciting poets. From the shock of a near-fatal car accident to a...

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Loop
Written by Anne Simpson

Trade Paperback | 104 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author; Poetry - Single Author - Other
978-0-7710-8075-3 (0-7710-8075-1)

March 25, 2003 | $16.99

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Loop
Written by Anne Simpson

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ISBN: 9780771080753
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By the author of Light Falls Through You and the novel Canterbury Beach

In Loop, Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return – retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place...


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Light Falls Through You
Written by Anne Simpson

Trade Paperback | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry
978-0-7710-8077-7 (0-7710-8077-8)

April 15, 2000 | $16.99

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Light Falls Through You
Written by Anne Simpson

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ISBN: 9780771080777
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Sensuously attentive to the world, intensely imagined, and musically driven, Light Falls Through You is a book that remembers the victims – of war, of atrocity, of casual violence – and calls upon language to render homage. Whether she is bringing poetry elegiacally to the service of an individual, to the...