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Arc 64

Summer 2010

the "transparent custard" issue
is now on newsstands!

‘True Words’: new poems by Don Coles

Amanda Jernigan ‘elevates her titfer’ to Margaret Avison’s wonky ear

Anne-Marie Turza chases Levin through the lyrical world of Anna Karenina

plus Winners of the 15th annual Poem of the Year contest

Contributors: Elizabeth Bachinsky, Rhonda Batchelor, Asa Boxer, Susan Braley, Emily Carr, George Elliott Clarke, Don Coles, Anne Compton, John Herbert Cunningham, Danielle Devereaux, Rhonda Douglas, Amatoritsero Ede, Lise Gaston, Peter Golub, Greg A. Hill, Robyn Jeffrey, Amanda Jernigan, Ross Leckie, Michael Andrew Lithgow, Tanis MacDonald, Nyla Matuk, rob mclennan, Barbara Myers, Shane Neilson. P.K. Page, Lesley Pasquin, Pamela Porter, Shane Rhodes, Peter Richardson, Michael Symmons Roberts, Bren Simmers, Mark Sommerfield, Susan Telfer, Diane Tucker, Anne-Marie Turza, Paul Tyler, Andrew Vaisius, Carol Wainio, Zachariah Wells, Nancy White

Our new website is imminent! More details of Arc 64, the Summer 2010 issue now on newsstands will appear there. Email managingeditor [at] arcpoetry [dot] ca for answers to questions or more information.

Other Announcements

Winners of the How Poems Work Student Essay Contest 2010 announced

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”. Find out more

Readers' Choice Voting

Voting begins Monday, March 22, 2010 and runs through Monday, April 5, 2010. See Readers' Choice page

Poem of the Year Contest and Diana Brebner Prize deadlines changed

The deadline for Poem of the Year is changing to February 1, 2010 and the Diana Brebner Prize deadline is changing to March 1, 2010. This change was made in response to feedback from our readers, and also to help us accommodate the transition from two to three issues per year (which means no gaps or overlaps in subscriptions for those who make consecutive contest entries). See contests.

Arc Digital Edition is now available

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Arc Annual 2010

The first Arc Annual—The absolute best of 'How Poems Work'—is now available. Sample the issue online and order your copy today.

Interview on ArtsTalk.

Evan Thornton, co-producer of Irish ArtsTalk, interviews our own Anita Lahey about the Arc Poem Of The Year content—and makes her rate the chances of a non-Canadian making off with the prize pot! The official Arc contest page can be viewed here.

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Recent Special Issues

The Best of “How Poems Work”

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Arc 62: Summer 2009 Ghazal Mania

Ghazal Mania (Arc 62: Summer 2009)

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Arc 61: Winter 2009 The Anonymous Issue

The Anonymous Issue
a.k.a the Headless issue (Arc 61: Winter 2009)

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Arc 60: Summer 2008 The Anniversary Issue

The Anniversary Issue
a.k.a the Dog-eared issue (Arc 60: Summer 2008)

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Arc 58: Summer 2007 Forgotten and Neglected

Canada’s “Forgotten and Neglected” Issue
a.k.a the Immortal issue (Arc 58: Summer 2007)

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The Web Zines

How Poems Work

In the March edition of How Poems Work, Shane Neilson shows how Zach Wells's poem for his son "There is Something Intractable In Me" plumbs the depth of an emotion by not expressing it. In his previous column, Shane Neilson elucidates an apocalyptic streak in the poetry of A.F. Moritz, exemplary in the poem “What Way”

Recently in How Poems Work, Susan Glickman is the first to step across a newly opened border and discuss the attraction of how a poem originally written in Hebrew by the great Yehuda Amichai still works in English. This will be the first column in Arc ’'s How Poems Work where a Canadian poet addresses a poem by a non-Canadian; you will, we think, see more columns connecting Canadian poets to the world in the coming months.

Portage

Portage is an online interactive routes map to the poetry ecosystem. Discover contests. Find your ideal publisher. Plan your reading tour. Bring poets from abroad to your festival. Plot a poetry experience for your class. Suggest a site. Let us know how you use the routes. Enter the conversation. Rewrite this map.

Great Scots!

Check out the first virtual poetry exchange between Scotland and Canada.

From April 2006 until April 2007, Scottish poets introduced the work of their favourite Canadians, and Canadian poets have been presenting the work of their chosen Scots.

This exchange is in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library. Explore their website at www.spl.org.uk.