Born and brought up in Placentia, Newfoundland, Agnes Walsh studied folklore in Georgia (USA), before returning home and taking to writing plays, poetry and fiction founded in her love of her ancestral place. She divides her time between St. John's and Patrick's Cove around the Cape Shore from Placentia. In 2006 she was named the inaugural St. John's Poet Laureate.
Storytelling is boiled down to a lively, vernacular essence, and often spiked with dry wit ... lyrical touches [are] all the more effective for being used sparingly.--Barbara Carey, The Toronto StarGoing Around with Bachelors is soft-spoken, affecting, empathetic storytelling from Newfoundland ... she can epigrammatically distill a complex relationship into a few lines.--Fraser Sutherland, The Globe and Mail ... You enter some of these poems as if cracking a side door and walking into the middle of a kitchen conversation ... pure, oral and aural delight.--George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle-Herald
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