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Zachariah Wells
Stuart Ross's Hey Crumbling Balcony!
Brief Review
Stuart Ross. Hey Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected. Toronto: ECW, 2003.
When a poet publishes a selected at mid-career, it should mark a definitive achievement. Such a book should insist: this is great stuff—read it. Far too often in our culture of promiscuous publication and conspicuous consumption, this is not the case; far too often a mid-life selection of a sanctioned versifier seems destined to be just another piece of tomorrow’s trash. The upside of such a climate is that it makes a book like Hey, Crumbling Balcony! that much more remarkable. Stuart Ross is an unusual poet and this collection establishes with authority the heretofore well-kept secret (at least outside of Toronto) that he is also one of the best Canadian poets writing today. Ross’s poems refuse to be pigeon-holed…
Press Release: January 18, 2005
PM reads Arc
Lo, look who’s reading Arc! Did the PM get an Arc subscription for Christmas?
Hockey lockout. A blank sheet of ice. A vision of Zamboni Bliss. And then the words of Barbara Carey, first published in the Summer 2004 issue of Arc, spill amazingly on Christmas Day from the PM’s lips.
In admirable sync with Arc’s new issue on Poets on Ice, Prime Minister Paul Martin’s Christmas address aired as follows:
Press Release: June 15, 2004
52 Launch at the Manx
Arc Magazine Launches Number 52!
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Colin Morton
Poets at Cross Purposes on Canada's Coasts
Feature Review
John Steffler. Helix: New and Selected Poems. Montreal: Signal Editions, Véhicule Press, 2002.
Stephen Scobie. The Spaces in Between: Selected Poems 1965-2001, Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2003.
In the 1960s and 1970s Canada was still emerging from its prolonged cultural infancy. For the first time in our history, a sizeable number of young Canadians had access to higher education and could dream of pursuing artistic aims in their own country, to tell their own stories in their own ways. They faced imposing obstacles, since both tradition and the laws of commerce decreed that British and American reprints were more popular and more profitable. Almost no publishers or magazines existed to bring the work of Canadian writers to Canadian readers. It took a combination of new technology (cheaper offset printing), a little seed money from the then-new arts council, and a great deal of volunteer effort to turn that discouraging situation around. Small presses devoted to the new writing sprang up across the country, often started and operated by the writers themselves. Familiar is the story of Margaret Atwood and Dennis Lee at Toronto’s House of Anansi; less familiar are those of Simon Dardick at Véhicule Press in Montreal or of George Melnyk at NeWest Press in Edmonton.
Barbara Myers
Elizabeth Brewster's Jacob's Dream
Press Release: June 10, 2004
Critic's Desk Award 2004
Inaugurated in Arc’s 25th-anniversary year, the Critic’s Desk Award honours excellence in book reviewing. This year’s winners are Bruce Whiteman (feature review) for his critique of Charlotte Gray’s Flint & Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake in Arc 51, and Christopher Doda (brief review) for of his critique of Kevin Connolly’s Happyland in Arc 51. The judge this year was David Staines of Ottawa.
Arc 52 Summer 2004
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by Chris Jennings - Excerpt from essay "On ending a poem"
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