Magazine (Issues) - Arc Poetry

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Arc 110 Counting Stops: The 2026 Poem of the Year

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Arc 109 Cycling Through Questions: the Spring 2026 issue

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Arc 108 The New Material Ecopoetics: the Fall 2025 issue

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Arc 107 The 2025 Poem of the Year is Haunted

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Arc 106 Work, Love, Rest, Report: the Spring 2025 Issue

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Front cover of Arc Poetry issue #105, featuring artwork by Jude Abu Zaineh.

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Arc 105 At Home: the Fall 2024 issue

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Arc 104 What’s the Damage? Arc’s 2024 Poem of the Year

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Arc 103 Frock Consciousness: the Spring 2024 Issue

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The cover of Arc #102, featuring a detail of a sculpture by Sharona Franklin. The text on the cover reads: "Disability Desirability Curated by guest editor Therese Estacion. Featuring new work by Latif Askia Ba, Brandi Bird, Seán Carson Kinsella, and more"

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Arc 102 Disability Desirability: the Fall 2023 issue

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A carved rock in a river with semi-opaque blue boxes on the top and bottom. The top box of text reads "Summer No. 101" on the top line and "Arc Poetry" on the bottom line.

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Arc 101 Counting to Infinity: the Summer 2023 Issue

Arc 101

a colouful explosion of balls with orange boxes containing black text in front. the top box of text reads "spring number 100" on the top line and "Arc Poetry" on the bottom line.

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Arc 100 Quantifying Creativity: the Spring 2023 Issue

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Arc 99 Fall 2022 A Season of Gusto: Carolyn Smart, Carolina Corcoran, and Ronna Bloom

Arc 99 Fall 2022

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Arc 98 Summer 2022 Neither or Both: Arc's 2022 Poem of the Year

Arc 98 Summer 2022

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Arc 97 Spring 2022 20th Anniversary of the Diana Brebner Prize

Arc 97 Spring 2022

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Arc 96 Fall 2021 The Islands of Influence

Arc 96 Fall 2021

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Arc 95 Summer 2021 Reaching Through: Arc's 2021 Poem of the Year

Arc 95 Summer 2021

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Arc 94 Spring 2021 Polymorphous per Verse

Arc 94 Spring 2021

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Arc 93 Fall 2020 Shining a light on eight up-and-coming poets of today

Arc 93 Fall 2020

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Arc 92 Summer 2020 Moments of elemental change: Arc's 2020 Poem of the Year

Arc 92 Summer 2020

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Arc 91 Spring 2020 Adèle Barclay's Singular, Prismatic Imagination

Arc 91 Spring 2020

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Arc 90 Fall 2019 Labour and Livelihood

Arc 90 Fall 2019

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Arc 89 Summer 2019 Imagine the Images of Arc's 2019 Poem of the Year

Arc 89 Summer 2019

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Arc 88 Spring 2019 Poet-in-Residence David O'Meara is the gasoline

Arc 88 Spring 2019

Arc 87 Front Cover

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Arc 87 Fall 2018 A Celebration of Poetry from the U.S.A.

Arc 87 Fall 2018

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Arc 86 Summer 2018 Celebrating the 2018 Poem of the Year and Arc's 40th Anniversary

Arc 86 Summer 2018

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Arc 85 Winter 2018 Di Brandt is finding you on Instagram

Arc 85 Winter 2018

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Arc 84 Fall 2017 Oh Canada, We Have Issues

Arc 84 Fall 2017

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Arc 83 Summer 2017 Arc's 2017 Poem of the Year Lights Up

Arc 83 Summer 2017

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Arc 82 Winter 2017 Robyn Sarah finds twelve miniatures

Arc 82 Winter 2017

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Arc 81 Fall 2016 Art in the End Times

Arc 81 Fall 2016

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Arc 80 Summer 2016 Poems with Backbone: Arc's 2016 Poem of the Year

Arc 80 Summer 2016

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Arc 79 Winter 2016 Marilyn Dumont outlines history in chalk dust

Arc 79 Winter 2016

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Arc 78 Fall 2015 Listen to Arc's Spoken Word Issue

Arc 78 Fall 2015

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Arc 77 Summer 2015 A Timely Event: Arc's 2015 Poem of the Year

Arc 77 Summer 2015

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Arc 76 Winter 2015 Sylvia Legris is conspicuous

Arc 76 Winter 2015

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Arc 75 Fall 2014 The Arc-Cordite Poetry Special Issue

Arc 75 Fall 2014

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Arc 74 Summer 2014 Consider Arc's 2014 Poem of the Year

Arc 74 Summer 2014

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Arc 73 Winter 2014 Introducing the up-and-comers issue

Arc 73 Winter 2014

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Arc 72 Summer 2013 The North Issue

Arc 72 Summer 2013

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Arc 71 Winter 2013 The big reveal: Arc's Poem of the Year

Arc 71 Winter 2013

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Arc 70 Winter 2013 Rob Winger is rounding first

Arc 70 Winter 2013

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Arc 69 Fall 2012 The children’s poetry issue

Arc 69 Fall 2012

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Arc 68 Summer 2012 Your 2012 Poems of the Year

Arc 68 Summer 2012

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Arc 67 Winter 2012 John Steffler on lands new, left and found

Arc 67 Winter 2012

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Arc 66 Summer 2011 Welcome to QuArc, where lit goes cosmic, atomic, microscopic

Arc 66 Summer 2011

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Arc Poetry Annual 2011 Arc Poetry Annual

Arc Poetry Annual 2011

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Arc 65 Winter 2011 How do I hate thee, O sonnet? Chris Jennings counts the ways

Arc 65 Winter 2011

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Arc 64 Summer 2010 True Words: new poems by Don Coles

Arc 64 Summer 2010

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Arc Poetry Annual 2010 Arc Poetry Annual 2010

Arc Poetry Annual 2010

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Arc 63 Winter 2010 How poets end poems (or how poems evade endings)

Arc 63 Winter 2010

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Arc 62 Summer 2009 Ghazal mania: A guided tour by Rob Winger

Arc 62 Summer 2009

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Arc 61 Winter 2009 The poets in this issue try on the pen name 'Anon'

Arc 61 Winter 2009

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Arc 60 Summer 2008 Arc hits the big Three Oh - As do Pinocchio, Pugnax and some bards

Arc 60 Summer 2008

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Arc 59 Winter 2008 Knocking on The Door: Starnino seeking Atwood

Arc 59 Winter 2008

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Arc 58 Summer 2007 13 dead poets you should know but don't

Arc 58 Summer 2007

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Arc 57 Winter 2006 Poem of the Year: Domanski's Picks

Arc 57 Winter 2006

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Arc 56 Summer 2006 The bookworks of Peter Sanger and Thaddeus Holownia

Arc 56 Summer 2006

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Arc 55 10th Annual Poem of the Year

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Arc 54 Summer 2005

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Arc 53 Winter 2004

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Arc 52 Summer 2004

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Arc 51 Ottawa Poetry Now

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Arc 50 Don Coles at 75

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Arc 49 Winter 2002

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Arc 48 Summer 2002

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Arc 47 Winter 2001

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Arc 46 Summer 2001

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Arc 45 Poem of the Year Contest

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Arc 44 The 99 Year Century

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Arc 43 Fourth Annual Poem of the Year Contest

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Arc 42 Spring 1999

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Arc 41 Third Annual Poem of the Year Contest Winners

Arc 41

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Arc 40 We All Begin In A Little Magazine

Arc 40

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Arc 39 Second Annual Poem of the Year Contest Winners

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Arc 38 An Issue of Belief

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Arc 37 Autumn 1996

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Arc 36 Spring 1996

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Arc 35 Odas, Suenos y Diáspora // Odes, Dreams, and Diaspora

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Arc 34 Spring 1995

Arc 34

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Arc 33 An Art Bestiary

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Arc 32 Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Canada

Arc 32

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Arc 31 Who's Afraid of Erin Mouré?

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Arc 30 15th Anniversary Issue

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Arc 29 Autumn 1992

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Arc 28 Spring 1992

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Arc 27 Impressions of Coach House Press

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Arc 26 The League of Canadian Poets

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Arc 25 Autumn 1990

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Arc 24 Spring 1990

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Arc 23 Anne Szumigalski: Special Issue

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Arc 22 Spring 1989

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Arc 21 Autumn 1988

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Arc 20 10th Anniversary Issue

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Arc 19 Autumn 1987

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Arc 18 Spring 1987

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Arc 17 Autumn 1986

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Arc 16 Spring 1986

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Arc 15 Autumn 1985 Issue

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Arc 14 The SF Issue

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Arc 12 & 13 The British Issue

Arc 12 & 13

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Arc 11

Arc 11

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Arc 10 5th Anniversary Issue

Arc 10

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Arc 8 & 9 Double Issue

Arc 8 & 9

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Arc 7 Autumn 1982

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Arc 6 Winter 1981

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Arc 5 Summer 1981

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Arc 4 A Women's Issue

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Arc 3 Spring 1980

Arc 3

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Arc 2 Spring 1979

Arc 2

A black and white cover (except that the paper is slightly more yellow than white) with a circle of clear space surrounded by big, randomly-facing letters; inside the circle is information about the issue in small type, including that this is Arc 1

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Arc 1 Spring 1978

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