Arc 54 Summer 2005
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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
Zachariah Wells
Harold Rhenisch's Free Will
Brief Review
Harold Rhenisch. Free Will. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2004.
It’s a truism that books come from other books. Shakespeare, for instance, borrowed storylines from classical antecedents. In the hands of a good writer, such appropriations become original works in their own right. I’m thinking here not only of Shakespeare’s plays, but of such brilliant latter-day adaptations of them as Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Aimé Césaire’s post-colonial version of The Tempest. Sometimes, however, adaptation takes on a parasitic tinge, either trivializing or leaning too heavily on the source material. Harold Rhenisch’s Free Will belongs, unfortunately, to this latter class…
Abou Farman
History's Hollow
Feature Review
A.F. Moritz. Night Street Repairs. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2004.
Carmine Starnino. With English Subtitles. Kentville (NS): Gaspereau Press,
2004.Phil Tabakow. The Mechanics of Submission. Montreal: DC Books, 2004.
History is unwieldy matter for poetry, yet it’s both seductive and essential. It amplifies the present, lends gravity to the personal, subtracts from the provisional and adds to a poem’s moral depth. Or, rather, it might do all that if handled with care. The historical must somehow meet the lyrical on equal footing, bringing vision, subject matter and language together in the poem’s struggle for meaning. If not, history will flatten the poem with its weight or hollow it out with its phoniness. …
Chris Jennings
Ray Hsu's Anthropy
Brief Review
Ray Hsu. Anthropy. Roberts Creek (BC): Nightwood
Editions, 2004.
Ray Hsu is a poet of perspective. Every poet, every person really, is a “poet of perspective,” if only in attempting to make sense of life from a limited, human position. Hsu takes this last notion as his subject, which explains why Anthropy is, roughly translated, about being human. …
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
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…
Arc 54 Summer 2005
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- 2006 Confederation Poets Prize and Critic's Desk Award
- Harold Rhenisch's Free Will
by Zachariah Wells - History's Hollow
by Abou Farman - Ray Hsu's Anthropy
by Chris Jennings - Poetry gets stormy at the Manx
- A Cubist View of the Saint John River
by Ian LeTourneau - Washington
by Ian Roy - Moody Weather
by Elizabeth Brewster - 2005 Summer Awards
- Stuart Ross's Hey Crumbling Balcony!
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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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