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Press Release: April 15, 2003

Winners Announced: Critic's Desk Award

Inaugurated in Arc’s 25th-anniversary year, the Critic’s Desk Award honours excellence in book reviewing. It is given annually for a feature review and a brief review published in Arc in the previous calendar year. This year’s winners are Harold Rhenisch (feature review) for his critique of books by Shani Mootoo and Joy Kogawa in Arc 48, and Heather Spears (brief review) for her critique of work by Karen Solie in Arc 49. The judge this year was Barbara Carey (Toronto).

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Harold Rhenisch

Return to Eden

Feature Review

Joy Kogawa. A Song of Lilith. Illustrated by Lilian Broca. Polestar, Vancouver, 2000.

Shani Mootoo. the predicament of or. Polestar, Vancouver, 2001.

At the beginning of history, in his lovely garden, Adam spoke poetry, named the animals, and fought hard against the temptations of philosophy. Stuff happened. Time passed. Now we have knowledge coming out of fiberoptic cables, endangered Bowhead Whales, and self-help books published by the gross. Poetry, the language of Eden, languishes. Even worse, Adam, our first poet laureate, has been made to answer for an absent God—a hard position to be placed in.

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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.

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