::Arc Poetry::Mag::Arc 58: Contributors::

Canada’s Forgotten and Neglected

In this special issue of Arc contemporary poets and essayists introduce Canadian poets they’ve rediscovered. Learn more at Canada’s Forgotten and Neglected Web Archive. Return in July 2007 to hear podcasts from the June 23rd launch.

JOHN BARTON has published eight books of poetry, including Hypothesis (Anansi, 2001) and a bilingual edition of his third book, West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a self-portrait (BuschekBooks, 2006). He is co-editor (with Billeh Nickerson) of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets, published this spring by Arsenal Pulp. He lives in Victoria, where he edits The Malahat Review.
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G. KIM BLANK is Professor of English at the University of Victoria. His numerous books, articles, chapters, newspaper columns, and reviews range from English Romanticism and media studies to conflict theory, popular culture, and composition. He recently had a play produced in his hometown of Nanaimo, BC.
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ASA BOXER is a poet and critic. He won the 2004 CBC Literary Award. His work is included in publications from Véhicule Press, Oxford Poetry Broadsides, Poetry London, Maisonneuve, and Books in Canada. His first collection of poems, The Mechanical Bird, will be released by Signal Editions this fall. He lives in Montreal.
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RONALD CAPLAN is the publisher of Breton Books. For over 25 years, he served as interviewer and photographer for Cape Breton’s Magazine. He edited Mother magazine in Pittsburgh circa 1962-63, and worked with John Sinclair at Artists Workshop, Detroit, 1966; island/Asphodel books with Victor Coleman, Toronto, 1967; and Frontier Press with Harvey Brown, 1968-1970. He lives at Wreck Cove on the Cabot Trail.
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GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE is the E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. His critical study, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002), helped to establish the field. Also a revered poet, his newest work is the opera libretto, Trudeau: Long March / Shining Path (2007).
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JON CLAYTOR is a multimedia artist who splits his studio time between New Brunswick and Montreal. Balancing neorealism with gestural abstraction, Claytor’s fiercely evocative works depict people in transition. Claytor is represented by Ingram Gallery, Toronto. Until the Break of Day, his upcoming solo show this September, blitzes film and painting with lyric aggression.
featured visual artist

CHRISTOPHER DODA is a poet and critic living in Toronto. His first book of poems, Among Ruins, was released by Mansfield Press, and he is an editor at Exile: the Literary Quarterly. He is at work on a second collection, currently titled Aesthetics Lesson.
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MATTHEW HOLMES was, for a time, a bureaucrat-poet, but has since pursued a more organic form of work. His first collection of poetry, Hitch, was recently released by Nightwood Editions / blewointmentpress. He is reviews editor of Arc.
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AISLINN HUNTER is a poet and fiction writer currently living in Edinburgh. Her last book of poetry was The Possible Past. New work has recently appeared in A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry and Memory (with Zwicky, Friesen, Finley and Simpson) published by Gaspereau Press.
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CHRIS JENNINGS is a poet and academic who writes about poetry and other literary subjects for a number of journals and magazines. He is the author of the chapbook Vacancies, and he has been an editor for filling Station magazine and the University of Toronto Quarterly. He may well have acquaintances in common with Philip Child. Chris teaches at the University of Ottawa.
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ANITA LAHEY’s first collection of poems, Out to Dry in Cape Breton, was published by Signal Editions in 2006. She lives in Ottawa, and is editor of Arc.
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CARMINE STARNINO has published three volumes of poetry, most recently With English Subtitles (Gaspereau Press, 2004). He lives in Montreal.
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ZACHARIAH WELLS is the author of Unsettled (Insomniac Press) and the Reviews Editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. Originally from Prince Edward Island, he now lives in Vancouver, where he works for Via Rail onboard the train. Visit his website: www.zachariahwells.com.
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Arc 58: Contributors

Canada’s Forgotten and Neglected

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