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June 24, 2008
Press Release: June 24, 2008
Arc Poetry Magazine Turns 30
The Celebrated Journal of Canadian Poetry Marks 30 Years of Publishing with a 30-Themed Issue Featuring 30 Canadian Poets
Release Dates: July through December 2008
(In Bookstores, Newsstands or Order On-line through www.ArcPoetry.ca)
Arc Poetry Magazine celebrates 30 years of publishing the best Canadian contemporary poetry with the Thirtieth Anniversary Issue, 1978-2008. Arc’s 30th birthday issue features well-crafted, spirited, engaging and compelling poetry and essays by 30 Canadian poets. Topics include being 30, turning 30, activities or aspects of life that seem particularly thirtysomething in nature, objects that have been owned (or lost) for 30 years (or by 30 people), and anything that has lasted three decades.
“Arc Poetry Magazine has never failed to show off what it has held between its varied covers for nearly three decades: the finest new poetry, and the most comprehensive selection of poetic discourse and criticism in the country,” said Arc Poetry Magazine’s Editor Anita Lahey. “With Arc’s 30th birthday looming, we decided it would be a good idea to poll today’s poets on the state of being 30. We set the parameters wide. The essence of 30 is a dubious quality to grasp.”
George Elliott Clarke’s contribution to Arc’s Thirtieth Anniversary Issue is an excerpt from a lengthy autobiographical poem on his first 30 years as a poet. Mary Dalton contributed a “cento,” which is a collage of the 30th line of 30 other poems by literary legends, such as T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Joseph Brodsky. Carmine Starnino imagines the early mid-life crisis of a gladiator. Steven Heighton composes a free translation of a piece from 1830 by the Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev. Montreal poet Asa Boxer, whose first collection The Mechanical Bird recently won the CAA Poetry Award, offers a harrowing descent into “Dante’s Ikea”—an experience most Canadian thirtysomethings will find painfully familiar! Entertaining and thoughtful essays by notable poets Sonnet L’Abbé and Adam Sol explore 30 poetry books that most influenced them. Gary Geddes (poet, teacher and editor of the widely known “15 Canadian Poets” anthologies and Oxford’s 20th Century Poetry and Poetics) contributed an essay on the battle of “Story versus Song” over the past 30 years in Canadian poetry. Poetry on the age, experience and mindset of 30-year-olds also includes works by acclaimed poets Robyn Sarah, Stephanie Bolster, Susan Gillis and Alison Pick.
Launch
Thirty years of Arc Poetry Magazine will be celebrated at the launch of the Thirtieth Anniversary Issue at the Ottawa International Writers Festival on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 7:30 pm (Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa). Canada’s top poets will commemorate three decades of Arc’s existence at a celebration that will include readings by some of Arc’s most notable contributors over the past thirty years. For tickets and information, please visit www.ArcPoetry.ca.
June 20, 2008
June 19, 2008
Sonnet L'Abbé
My Inner Cities: Thirty Landmark Books In My Personal Poetic Geography
Excerpt from Feature Essay: L’Abbé’s Top Thirty
… The other morning my friend Reza and I were on a bus in Vancouver, and as we turned from East King Edward onto Kingsway, he told me that when he first came to the city he had taken a room in one of the houses nearby. “This,” he said, indicating the small, boxish bungalows and stamp-sized lawns we were passing, “is my first impression of Canada.” He has been in B.C. for four years, I for less than six months. Strange, that a relative newcomer from Iran should be showing the Canadian around East Van. Reza has also been on several Transcanada trips, as far as the Maritimes, all the way up to Labrador; I have never been east of Quebec city. Which of us can say they know Canada?
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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
- Last Commented:
- PM reads Arc (1)
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