Agnes Walsh Publishes Book Of Plays

Answer Me Home: Plays from Tramore Theatre (Breakwater Books, 2011) is a collection of plays written by Agnes Walsh. Tramore was founded in 1999 by Walsh and Arlene Morrisey, to promote the oral history and cultural traditions of the Cape Shore, Newfoundland.

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Rattling Books has two audio book collections of poetry by Agnes Walsh. Going Around with Bachelors is an MP3 download, available courtesy of Brick Books and the author (click here for more information, and to listen to an excerpt). In the Old Country of My Heart is available as an audio CD and an MP3 download (click here).

Canadian audiobooks produced by Rattling Books in Newfoundland and Labrador

Agnes Walsh Reading in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, November 6

Agnes Walsh, award-winning Canadian actor, poet, playwright and storyteller, will be reading in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, on November 6, courtesy of the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Walsh's poems have been translated into the French and Portuguese, and she has toured Canada, the eastern U.S., Portugal and Ireland, reading from her work. She is the founder of the Tramore Theatre Troupe of the Cape Shore of Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, which is dedicated to preserving and presenting the oral history of that area. In 2006, Agnes Walsh became the inaugural poet laureate of St. John's, capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Walsh's latest collection of poetry is Going Around with Bachelors, which was short-listed for the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and long-listed for the ReLit Award.

"Going Around with Bachelors is soft-spoken, affecting, empathetic storytelling from Newfoundland, Canada's Ireland." (The Globe and Mail)

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Listen to an excerpt from Rattling Books' unabridged audio version of Going Around with Bachelors, read by Agnes Walsh.

"The tone and timbre of . . . Walsh's voice seem to emanate from the heart of North America— from the most ancient parts of the continent." (AudioFile magazine)

Canadian audiobooks produced by Rattling Books in Newfoundland and Labrador

Agnes Walsh Writes and Directs New Tramore Productions Play

Poet and playwright Agnes Walsh's new play, "Come Here Til I Tells Ya," will debut on July 24 at the Cuslett Arts Centre, in Cuslett, on the Cape Shore of Newfoundland. Read more about the play or about Tramore Productions.

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Agnes Walsh's poetry collections, In the Old Country of My Heart and Going Around with Bachelors, are available in audio format from rattlingbooks.com.

Canadian audiobooks produced by Rattling Books in Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Site: Agnes Walsh

Agnes Walsh was raised in Placentia, on the west side of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula. She now divides her time between St. John's and Patrick's Cove, around the Cape Shore from Placentia, not far from the gannet sanctuary at Cape St. Mary's. She has published poetry in several magazines and anthologies and, recently, on the buses of St. John's. Her first book of poems is In the Old Country of My Heart, published by Killick Press of St. John's in 1996. Time Before Thought, her autobiographical collaboration with Mercedes Barry and Andy Jones, appears in Stars in the sky morning: Collective Plays of Newfoundland and Labrador, edited by Helen Peters...

To read the rest of this entry by writer and editor Stan Dragland, please click here.

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Agnes Walsh is the author of two collections of poetry, In the Old Country of My Heart and, most recently, Going Around with Bachelors. Both are available as downloadable MP3s (read by the author) from Rattling Books.

Canadian audiobooks produced by Rattling Books in Newfoundland and Labrador

Agnes Walsh Nominated for Prestigious Canadian Poetry Prize

Poets shortlisted for two national prizes; National Poetry Month kicks off
from the Canadian Press

TORONTO — Writers making the short lists for two national poetry prizes were announced Tuesday at a launch event for National Poetry Month.

In the running for the $1,000 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for a first book of poetry: "Radius of Light," by Joshua Auerbach; "Making Bones Walk," by Alex Boyd; "Wolf Tree," by Alison Calder; "Contrary Infatuations," by Dymphny Dronyk; "Ride Backwards on Dragon," by Kim Goldberg; and "The Sweet Fuels," by Erin Knight.
The $1,000 Pat Lowther Award for a book of poetry by a Canadian woman: "Wolf Tree," by Alison Calder; "The Crooked Good," by Louise Bernice Halfe; "Two Hemispheres," by Nadine McInnis; "Shell," by Olive Senior; "Quick," by Anne Simpson; and "Going Around With Bachelors," by Agnes Walsh.
The winners will be announced June 21 in St. John's, N.L.
National Poetry Month, established by the League of Canadian Poets in 1998, brings together schools, publishers, booksellers and other groups to celebrate poetry.

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Going Around with Bachelors (as well as Agnes' first collection, In the Old Country of My Heart) is available as an audiobook from Rattling Books.

Agnes Walsh Reading in Regina

from The Leader-Post

Five Canadian poets laureate will be reading from their works Wednesday in the Student Commons of Campion College at the University of Regina.

The poets laureate are Robert Currie, Louise B. Halfe, Lorri Neilson Glenn, Agnes Walsh and Glen Sorestad.

The event, which is to begin at 4 p.m., is open to the public and everyone is welcome. Admission is free.

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Going Around with Bachelors by Agnes Walsh, published by Brick Books, is available as a digital download on the Rattling Books website (the print version can be found on Brick's website). Agnes Walsh's first poetry collection, In the Old Country of My Heart, is available as an audio book from Rattling Books.

Brick Books Update on Agnes Walsh's Tour

Coast to Coast to Coast: On the Road with Two Poets Laureate

Poets Laureate Agnes Walsh (St. John's, Newfoundland) and Lorri Neilsen Glenn (Halifax, Nova Scotia) started out in Edmonton (January 21) reading with Alice Major and Ted Blodgett, the city's first and current Poets Laureate respectively. From there the poets made their way to Yellowknife (January 23 & 24), Whitehorse (January 25 & 26), Salt Spring Island (January 29) to read with local poet Christine Smart, and Victoria (January 30) where they appeared with that city's Poet Laureate Carla Funk. They were very well received in all the cities and led a workshop in Yellowknife and Whitehorse as well as reading from their own work.

In March they are back on the road again with stops in Regina (March 5) and Saskatoon (March 6) where they will read with current Saskatchewan Poet Laureate Robert Currie as well as past Poets Laureate Glen Sorestad and Louise Halfe. In Toronto (March 10) Neilsen Glenn and Walsh will read with the city's current Poet Laureate Pier Giorgio Di Cicco and will be joined by Poets Laureate Liz Zetlin of Owen Sound and John B. Lee of Brantford. In Ottawa (March 11) the poets will read at the Tree Reading Series.

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Going Around with Bachelors by Agnes Walsh, published by Brick Books, is available as a digital download on the Rattling Books website (the print version can be found on Brick's website). Agnes Walsh's first poetry collection, In the Old Country of My Heart, is available as an audio book from Rattling Books.

Article on Agnes Walsh in The Edmonton Journal

Literary Previewfrom The Edmonton Journal
By Richard Helm

EDMONTON -- Some people will try to tell you that poetry is seizing the public mind these days like never before, that rhythm and rhyme somehow illuminate these querulous times.
Agnes Walsh holds no such illusions. She agrees that poetry is an "excited language," as it's been described by writer John Steffler, but she knows it's a language that only a minority of us will ever choose to speak.
"To me poetry has always been a special kind of thing, and by that I certainly don't mean elite. But it's a rare kind of bird," says Walsh, the inaugural poet laureate for St. John's, N.L.
"You can put poetry on the buses and all that, and it's going to catch the eyes of people, but I don't think it's ever going to be anything more than what it is."
Just what it is should be on grand display at Catalyst Theatre tonight when Walsh and her barnstorming companion, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, team up for a night of readings with local poets Ted Blodgett and Alice Major, Edmonton's current and past poets laureate, respectively. The four are part of a growing club across the land. There are now 19 poets laureate in Canada, including the parliamentary poet laureate, provincial laureates and municipal laureates like Walsh and Neilsen Glenn, the official bard for Halifax...

To read the rest of this article, please click here.

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Going Around with Bachelors by Agnes Walsh, published by Brick Books, is available as a digital download on the Rattling Books website (the print version can be found on Brick's website). Agnes Walsh's first poetry collection, In the Old Country of My Heart, is available as an audio book from Rattling Books.

On the Road Again

Poets laureate hit the roadThe Chronicle Herald
Sun. Dec 23 - 5:58 AM

LONDON, Ont. — Halifax’s poet laureate Lorri Nelsen Glenn, along with Agnes Walsh, poet laureate of St. John’s, will embark on a cross-country tour.
In a media release, Brick Books, a Canadian poetry publisher, announced the tour will take place in January and March.
While on tour, the two poets will read from their poetry collections, lead writing workshops, and team up with poets laureate in other cities.
They will travel to Edmonton, Yellowknife, Whitehorse, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Victoria, Regina, Saskatoon, Toronto and Ottawa.
Glenn is the author of the poetry book Combustion and was appointed laureate for Halifax for 2005-2009.
Walsh is the author of Going Around with Bachelors and in 2006 she was named the inaugural St. John’s laureate for a four-year term.

For more information, visit the Brick site.

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Going Around with Bachelors by Agnes Walsh, published by Brick Books, is available as a digital download on the Rattling Books website (the print version can be found on Brick's website). Agnes Walsh's first poetry collection, In the Old Country of My Heart, is available as an audio book from Rattling Books.

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