Launch of Canada's Forgotten and Neglected poets issue -- June 23rd
Arc Poetry Magazine launches a special issue featuring poetry by 13 “forgotten and neglected” Canadian poets. The work of each of these poets is featured alongside photographs and essays by Canada’s best contemporary poets and critics, who argue why their work ought to be revered and remembered. Arc’s Forgotten and Neglected issue will be launched at a reading in Ottawa on Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 5 pm at the Manx Pub, 370 Elgin Street. The issue hits newsstands across the country just in time for Canada Day on June 30, 2007, and will be available through December. Issues of Forgotten and Neglected can be ordered directly through www.ArcPoetry.ca. The issue’s launch will be accompanied by special podcasts on -Arc’s website that feature works by the Forgotten and Neglected poets read aloud by the essayists who wrote about them.
Essays cover the following lost and forgotten poets:
- A lost protégé of Irving Layton’s.
- An ignored Hungarian-Canadian immigrant.
- An unheard-of Chinese-Canadian immigrant Imagist poet.
- Two Canadians-in-exile (one the overlooked niece of the famous “Confederation Poet” Charles G.D. Roberts, the other a Soho-dweller and friend of George Orwell’s).
- The woman who was arguably Canada’s first Modernist poet.
- Two Governor-General’s Award winners (one of these a Nova Scotian master sonneteer).
- A doggerel-addicted soldier.
- An invalid bestseller, who fell behind the times.
- Two passionate nation-builders (including an infamously assassinated politician).
- A World War I poet.
- A queer World War II veteran.
Return here in July to hear the podcasts.
FMI: media@arcpoetry.ca
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