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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).
Heather Spears
Karen Solie's Short Haul Engine
Martin Wallace
Marking Their Dance Cards: Five Ottawa Poets
Feature Review
Mark Frutkin. Iron Mountain. Vancouver: Beach Holme, 2001.
rob mclennan. harvest: a book of signifiers. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2001.
Armand Garnet Ruffo. At Geronimo’s Grave. Regina: Coteau Books, 2001.
Stephen Brockwell. Cometology. Toronto: ECW Press, 2001.
Asoka Weerasinghe. Butterfly Poems. Ottawa: Gloucester Spoken Art, 2001.
Heather Spears
Gil McElroy's Dream Pool Essays
Press Release: October 04, 2002
Local Poet Wins Inaugural Diana Brebner Prize
Mary Trafford, of Chelsea, Quebec, has won the inaugural Diana Brebner Prize, it was announced today in Ottawa. The prize, sponsored by Arc: Canada’s National Poetry Magazine, carries a cash award of $500.
Press Release: May 15, 2002
Toronto Poet Wins Top Prize
Maureen Scott Harris of Toronto has won the 2002 “Poem of the Year” contest, it was announced today in Ottawa. The prize, sponsored by Arc: Canada’s National Poetry Magazine, carries a cash award of $1,000. Harris’s poem, “Be the River”, won over approximately 1300 entries. Her first book of poems, A Possible Landscape, was published by Brick Books in 1993. Last year, she took second prize in the Contest with her poem, “The Drowned Boy.”
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