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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
Matthew Holmes
Interview with Peter Sanger
an excerpt from
The long view: An interview with poet Peter Sanger on his collaboration with photographer Thaddeus Holownia
Editor’s note: Since 1994, Peter Sanger and Thaddeus Holownia have collaborated on three book projects that bring poem and photograph together. Not wholly of either discipline, the books exist in their own space, one that has been largely overlooked. Holownia has said: “these collaborations are borne out of a spirit of respect for the subject… we start with a blank slate and move forward with both of us traveling a parallel course of discovery.” The Third Hand (1994) features twenty poems/riddles and a chromogenic print for its frontispiece. Limited to an edition of 250 copies, it was printed at the Tribune Press in Sackville, NB. Ironworks followed in 1995. Featuring seven platinum prints with seven accompanying poems, it was printed at Anchorage Press in an edition of 20. In 2001, a trade edition of Ironworks was published by Anchorage Press in Jolicure, NB ( www.anchoragepress.ca ) in an edition of 1,500. This edition features tritone reproductions of the original prints, with seven accompanying poems. In 2005, Anchorage published Arborealis in four limited/collector editions. This interview with Peter Sanger was conducted by post, from February 2005 to March 2006.
Chris Jennings
Books of Revelation
Feature Review
Margaret Avison. Always Now: Collected Poems. Volume Three. Erin: The Porcupine’s Quill, 2005.
You can measure the success of Margaret Avison’s career by the major awards accorded to nearly half of her books: two Governor General’s Awards and a Griffin Poetry Prize. If you put little stock in awards (fair enough), then the better measure may be the list of anthologies (an appendix to this volume of Always Now) in which her work has appeared, particularly before the release of Winter Sun in 1960. She was first anthologized by A.J.M. Smith in The Book of Canadian Poetry: A Critical and Historical Anthology (1943). Her poems appeared in anthologies published by both First Statement and Contact, edited by John Sutherland, Louis Dudek, and Irving Layton. Earle Birney, Bliss Carman, Ralph Gustafson, and Eli Mandel all selected her work for Canadian poetry anthologies, and Denise Levertov pursued Avison’s second book, The Dumbfounding (1966), for Norton (a point Avison records when giving “Thanks” here). In other words, before Avison had published her first monograph, she was recognized as a representative Canadian poet by some of the enduring names in Canadian poetry, and after Winter Sun that reputation spread.
Amanda Jernigan
George Murray's A Set of Deadly Negotiations
Brief Review
George Murray. A Set of Deadly Negotiations.
Victoria (BC): Frog Hollow Press, 2005.
The last book of poems that frightened me was George Murray’s The Hunter (2003). I’m not accustomed to thinking of poetry as a frightening genre. Unlike life and many fictions, poems end neatly; they insist on order; they elude the march of time. Not Murray’s. His Hunter tracks Yeats’s rough beast—or is tracked by it; or is that beast—through fire and desert towards no certain Bethlehem. The poems’ lines go two by two or three by three—but to call these stanzas couplets or triplets belies their staggered state. And because the poems eschew regular rhyme and metre, like fire they resist one’s efforts at remembrance. The poems are burnt out from around their titular bones: what sticks in one’s mind is the index, an alphabetical sequence that reads like a skeletal poem (Albatross, Anchor, Arrow, Bear, Bed, Bomb, Book …)….
Press Release: June 19, 2006
Saturday, June 24 launch at the Cube
Arc: Canada’s Cunning Poetry Magazine
Launches Issue Number 56!
Poetry lovers unite and rejoice! This Saturday, June 24, two forces for good—Arc Poetry Magazine and Cube Art Gallery—team up to celebrate the publication of Arc 56. Join us at Cube Art Gallery, 7 Hamilton Avenue North (just off Wellington Ave. near the Parkdale Market) at 7:30 p.m. for a fabulous evening of art, poetry, prizes and wine! Don’t miss it (or we’ll miss you)!
Arc Poetry Magazine Launch of Issue 56
Saturday June 24th, 7:30 p.m.
Cube Art Gallery
7 Hamilton Avenue North (just off Wellington Ave. near the Parkdale Market)
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
Arc 56 Summer 2006
- Arc 56 Summer 2006
- 2007 Confederation Poets Prize Winner
- Asleep
by Michael Trussler - Interview with Peter Sanger
by Matthew Holmes - Books of Revelation
by Chris Jennings - George Murray's A Set of Deadly Negotiations
by Amanda Jernigan - Ahora
by Jan Conn - Après Film
by Ruth Roach Pierson - Moving the Diorama
by Monty Reid - Saturday, June 24 launch at the Cube
- 2006 Confederation Poets Prize and Critic's Desk Award
- Harold Rhenisch's Free Will
by Zachariah Wells - History's Hollow
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- Arc launches Issue #63 (the three-legged issue)
- The Night of the Apocalypse Yahweh Tinkles the Ivories
by Patricia Young - Canadian Gothic
by Jim Johnstone - Crow, of the family Corvidae
by Gillian Wallace - Advisory
by Steve McOrmond - Fidelities
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
- Calls for Entry coming up early in 2010
- Arc Digital Edition Now Available
- Lampman-Scott Award 2008 Winner
- Reactions to selections from Arc Annual 2010
- Frederick Ward’s blistering blues - Excerpt
by George Elliott Clarke
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