{{Short description|Canadian poet, playwright, actor and storyteller (born 1950)}} {{For|the matron|Agnes Marion McLean Walsh}} {{infobox writer |name=Agnes Walsh |birth_date={{birth year and age|1950}} |birth_place=Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |occupation={{flatlist| *Poet *playwright *actor *storyteller }} }} '''Agnes Walsh''' (born 1950) is a Canadian poet, playwright, actor and storyteller from Newfoundland and Labrador.<ref name="Heritage NL">{{cite web |url=https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/arts/agnes-walsh.php |title=Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador - Agnes Walsh |publisher=Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador |accessdate=2019-10-26 |archive-date=2019-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026155504/https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/arts/agnes-walsh.php |url-status=live }}</ref>
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.<ref name="Heritage NL" />
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.<ref name="Nolan">{{Cite journal |last=Nolan |first=Michael |title=Agnes Walsh. Answer Me Home: Plays from Tramore Theatre. |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/view/21052/24297 |journal=Newfoundland and Labrador Studies |date=April 2012 |volume=27 |issue=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026222608/https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/view/21052/24297 |archive-date=2019-10-26 |access-date=2019-10-26 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
She has adapted Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author Halldór Laxness's ''The Atom Station'' for the theatre.<ref name="Heritage NL" />
In 2006, Walsh was named the first poet laureate of St. John's.<ref name="CBC News">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/agnes-walsh-named-st-john-s-poet-laureate-1.579228 |title=CBC News - Agnes Walsh named St. John's poet laureate |publisher=CBC News |accessdate=2019-10-26 |archive-date=2019-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109094314/https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/agnes-walsh-named-st-john-s-poet-laureate-1.579228 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==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) * ''The Wind Has Robbed the Legs Off a Madwoman'' (2024)
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