Arc is pleased to announce the winners of our How Poems Work Contest. Our National Winner is Lise Gaston of Victoria BC for her analysis of Lorna Crozier’s “What the Snake Brings to the World”. Judge Chris Jennings was impressed by “Gaston’s ability to address several facets of the poem without losing sight of the whole composition. When she talks about source texts, they support rather than determine how she reads Crozier’s poem. When she talks about sound, she acknowledges how important our expectations are to the effect sound has on meaning, and when she talks about meaning, her interpretation is convincing and conclusive without being limiting: it’s true without being the ‘singular’ ‘truth’. “

Honourable mentions go to Nicholas Shuurman of Tillsonburg, Celyn Harding-Jones of Montreal, Susan Steudel of Vancouver, and Julie Lockhart of Calgary. “Shuurman’s reading of Anne Michaels’s ‘Phantom Limbs’ works the central metaphor with confidence and sensitivity. Harding-Jones’s approach to Rita Wong’s ‘write around the absence’ integrates insights on sound, shape, and sense in its brief and attentive analysis. Steudel engages with the intellectual backdrop of Phyllis Webb’s “Socrates” to discuss how effectively Webb addresses the heart via the head, and Lockhart moves through the various associative shifts of Don McKay’s “Dreamskaters” with an ease that mimics the poem’s. There were a number of other impressive entries, and, on the whole, the submissions impressed me with their intellectual sensitivity, their emotional attentiveness, and their concern for technique. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all who submitted.”

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posted by Arc on April 01, 2010 permalink
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and announces Poem of the Year, Readers’ Choice
and Diana Brebner Prize winners!—

Arc also congratulates contributors appearing in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009.

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posted by Arc on December 14, 2009 permalink
cats: News | Press Releases | Diana Brebner Prize | Poem of the Year Contest | Readers’ Choice Award | Arc 63 Winter 2010

Call for Proposals

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posted by Arc on December 13, 2009 permalink
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tags: poet in residence | poetry jobs

• Poem of the Year Contest and Diana Brebner Award Deadlines changed
• Calls for Entry
• Arc Digital Edition Now Available

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posted by Arc on November 27, 2009 permalink
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Winner: The Bindery by Shane Rhodes

The Lampman-Scott Award is administered by the Arc Poetry Society, and is awarded each year to a book of Poetry written by a poet living in the National Capital Region. Arc was happy to announce at the Ottawa Book Awards that the winner of the 2008 Lampman-Scott Award for Poetry has gone to Shane Rhodes for his book The Bindery.

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posted by Arc on September 14, 2009 permalink
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The Celebrated National Journal of Canadian Poetry Publishes a New Issue that Explores How Poems Work and asks 44 Canadians from all Walks of Life to Weigh in on Canadian Poetry

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posted by Arc on August 04, 2009 permalink
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• An examination of the work of John Thompson and his innovation with the Ghazal form in English.
• Plus: New poetry from Stuart Ross, Susan Glickman, Michael Lista, Troy Jollimore and more!

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posted by Arc on May 24, 2009 permalink
cats: Press Releases | Arc 62 Summer 2009

You can make a difference. Lend your voice to the Coalition to Keep Federal Support of Literary, Scholarly and Arts Magazines and collect signatures for the following petition.

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Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled

We, the undersigned residents of Canada, wish to bring to your attention the following:

From policies pre-dating Confederation, the Government of Canada has supported programs to help Canadians both receive and create periodical publications about arts, literary, and scholarly matters created by Canadians devoted to enriching and informing our cultural and intellectual life at home and around the world.

On February 17, 2009, the Department of Canadian Heritage announced that existing periodical policy will be merged into a new Canada Periodical Fund (CPF) in 2010/2011. We understand that eligibility for CPF program may be set in such a way as to cause the majority of our arts, literary, and scholarly journals to lose a significant portion of what is already very modest financial support essential to their viability.

Proposed eligibility criteria, while apparently designed to achieve efficiencies, will cause long-term damage to the capacity of these important and unique periodicals to remain a source for readers and a vehicle for Canada’s writers, artists, and researchers.

THEREFORE, we petitioners are calling upon the Government of Canada to ensure that the criteria of the new Canada Periodical Fund sustain current federal funding investments in Canada’s vital arts, literary, and scholarly magazines.

download petition in English
download petition in French

Please mail all completed sheets to:
The Malahat Review, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Stn CSC, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2.

The Malahat will forward the collated petition to Parliament.

Deadline: June 8, 2009

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posted by Arc on April 15, 2009 permalink
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Hello friends of Arc!

The Department of Canadian Heritage in Ottawa has recently announced the merger of the Canada Magazine Fund and the Publications Assistance Program into a single entity.

As a byproduct of this reorganization, it is possible that eligibility criteria may change, which could mean Canadian arts and literary magazines will lose their very essential Canadian Heritage funding.

Several important literary magazines across the country are now joining forces to guarantee that any adopted criteria for funding will not automatically exclude them.

Please show your support by joining our Facebook group, Coalition to Keep Canadian Heritage Support for Arts and Literary Magazines:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53103444468&ref=mf

Anita Lahey
Editor
Arc Poetry Magazine

Contact your English- or French-speaking Member of Parliament and speak your mind!

Note name change of coalition to Coalition to Keep Federal Support of Literary, Scholarly and Arts Magazines.

posted by Arc on February 27, 2009 permalink | comments
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The launch for Arc 61, the Anonymous Issue, will take place Sunday, February 22nd 2009 at 2pm at Collected Works book store, 1242 Wellington Street West (at Holland), in Ottawa, and will feature readings by this year’s Brebner prize winner and much more. Everyone welcome. We hope to see you there.

posted by Arc on January 30, 2009 permalink
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