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Press Release: March 22, 2007
2007 Confederation Poets Prize Winner
Arc is pleased to announce
Michael Trussler
is the 2007 winner of the Sixteenth Anuual
Confederation Poets Prize
for his poem in Arc 56, Summer 2006
“Asleep”
selected by
Anne Simpson
Press Release: June 19, 2006
2006 Confederation Poets Prize and Critic's Desk Award
Elizabeth Brewster’s “Moody Weather” winner of Confederation Prize
Farman and Wells earn critic kudos
Arc announces this year’s Confederation Poets’ Prize and Critic’s Desk Award!
Confederation Poets’ Prize: Given for the best poem published in Arc in the preceding calendar year, the 2006 Winner of the Fifteenth Annual Confederation Poets Prize goes to Elizabeth Brewster for her poem “Moody Weather,” which appeared in Arc 54, Summer 2005. The judge was Molly Peacock.
About prize
Critic’s Desk Award: Inaugurated in Arc’s 25th-anniversary year, the Critic’s Desk Award—now in its fourth year—honours excellence in book reviewing. This year’s winners are Abou Farman for his feature review “History’s Hollow,” published in Arc 54, and Zachariah Wells for his brief review of Harold Rhenisch’s Free Will in Arc 54. The judge was George Elliot Clarke.
About award
Press Release: May 28, 2005
2005 Summer Awards
Fruitfly takes Lampman
‘Brave’ winner of Confederation Prize
Rhenisch and Wells earn critic kudos
The 20th Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry goes to Stephen Brockwell for his book, Fruitfly Geographic (published by ECW Press). The award is given annually by Arc, Canada’s National Poetry Magazine, for the best book of poetry written in English during the preceding calendar year by a writer living in Ottawa.
Stephen Brockwell is also the author of The Wire in Fences and Cometology, and is the co-editor of the online journal www.poetics.ca.
Jury members Jeanette Lynes of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, matt robinson of Fredericton and Russell Thornton of North Vancouver chose Brockwell’s book from 11 entries, out of which the following shortlist was named:
Fruitfly Geographic by Stephen Brockwell
Imaginary Origins by Cyril Dadydeen
Until the Light Bends by Susan McMaster
Ricochet by Seymour Mayne
Press Release: June 10, 2004
Confederation Poets Prize 2004
Given for the best poem published in Arc in the preceding calendar year, the Confederation Poets Prize goes this year to Mark Sinnett for his poem, What Separates Us from the Birds published in Arc 50, Summer 2003. The judge was Gary Geddes.
Press Release: April 21, 2004
2004 Summer Awards
Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry
The 19th Archibald Lampman award goes this year to David O�Meara for his book of poetry, The Vicinity (published by Brick Books). The award is given annually by Arc, Canada’s National Poetry Magazine, for the best book of poetry written in English during the preceding calendar year by a writer living in Ottawa.
Jury members Brian Bartlett of Halifax, Stephanie Bolster of Montreal, and Aislinn Hunter of Vancouver, had this to say about O’Meara’s book:
Press Release: April 15, 2003
Winner Announced: Confederation Poets Prize
Given for the best poem published in Arc in the preceding calendar year, the Confederation Poets Prize goes this year to Margo Button for her poem, “Interviews at the Elders’ Palace,” published in Arc 48, Summer 2002. The judge was Heather Spears.
Confederation Poets Prize
- Confederation Poets Prize
- 2007 Confederation Poets Prize Winner
- Asleep
by Michael Trussler - 2006 Confederation Poets Prize and Critic's Desk Award
- Moody Weather
by Elizabeth Brewster - 2005 Summer Awards
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by Terence Young - Confederation Poets Prize 2004
- What Separates Us From the Birds
by Mark Sinnett - 2004 Summer Awards
- Winner Announced: Confederation Poets Prize
- Interviews at the Elders' Palace
by Margo Button - Wearing Nothing But The Midnight Sun
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by Gillian Wallace - Advisory
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by Chris Jennings - Excerpt from essay "On ending a poem"
by Barbara Myers - Katia Grubisic on Matthew Tierney's The Hayflick Limit
by Katia Grubisic - Poet in Residence, October 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011 - Call for Proposals
- November 2009: Three calls for entry, and one new way to get Arc
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