Agnes Walsh (born 1950) is a Canadian poet, playwright, actor and storyteller from Newfoundland and Labrador.

Born in Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Walsh has won Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters awards for poetry as well as TickleAce poetry and ballad writing awards. Her poems have been translated into French and Portuguese. She has toured Canada, the eastern United States, Portugal, and Ireland reading from her work.

Agnes Walsh

Walsh is also the founder of the Tramore Theatre Troupe on the Cape Shore of Placentia Bay, an ensemble dedicated to preserving and presenting the oral history of that area. The group has performed to packed houses in both Newfoundland and Ireland and hosted Irish cultural exchanges to the Cape Shore area.

Agnes Walsh

She has adapted Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author Halldór Laxness's The Atom Station for the theatre.

Agnes Walsh

In 2006, Walsh was named the first poet laureate of St. John's.

Bibliography

In the Old Country of My Heart (1996) In the Old Country of My Heart audiobook edition (2003) Going Around with Bachelors (2007) Answer Me Home: Plays from Tramore Theatre (2011) Oderin (2018)

References

Canadian women poets

Writers from Newfoundland and Labrador

Canadian women dramatists and playwrights

1950 births

Living people

People from Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador

20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights

21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights

20th-century Canadian poets

21st-century Canadian poets

20th-century Canadian women writers

21st-century Canadian women writers

Poets Laureate of places in Canada