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We've Got Poetry Invisible Dogs Don Domanski Shortlisted Barry Dempster for the 2013 Governor General’S Award Bite Down Little Whisper “ Is Is ARC POETRY MAgAzinE 74, SUMMER 2014 Arc: Canada’s Poetry Magazine, est. 1978 Published by the Arc Poetry Society, est. 1996 Managing Editor: Monty Reid Coordinating Editor: Robyn Jeffrey Editorial Assistant: Meagan Black Art Director: Serge Duguay Intern: Dave Didylowski Poetry Editor: Shane Rhodes Associate Poetry Editor: Lise Rochefort Prose Editor: Chris Jennings Reviews Editor: Brecken Hancock Reviews Coordinator: Frances Boyle Visual Art Editor: Kevin Matthews Editorial Board: Frances Boyle, Anita Dolman, Rhonda Douglas, JM Francheteau, Brecken Hancock, Jenny Haysom, Chris Jennings, Kevin Matthews, Lise Rochefort, Shane Rhodes, Evan Thornton Contributing Editors: Julia Bustos, Aislinn Hunter, Marilyn Irwin, Ben Ladouceur, Carmel Purkis, Lisa Marie Smith Volunteers: Rupert Allen, Kirsten Bussière, Conrad McCallum, John Olsthoorn The Arc Poetry Society gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Ottawa and our subscribers. Arc is published three times a year, including an annual themed issue each fall. Arc is distributed by Magazines Canada, available through EBSCO and Gale/Cengage and on microfiche from Micromedia. The contents of this journal, unless otherwise indicated, are copyright © property of the authors, 2014. None of the works may be reproduced without permission in writing from the copyright holder. Arc acquires First Canadian Serial rights. Subscriptions cost $60 for 6 issues over 2 years. Subscriptions can be ordered online at www.arcpoetry.ca, or by mailing in the subscription card found in this issue. All prices include postage and handling unless otherwise stated. Sample copies are $12.50 each. U.S. subscriptions: $80 cdn (2 years); sample issues $17 cdn. Overseas: $90 cdn (2 years) sample issues $19 cdn. Back issues are available at $12.50 each; U.S. and overseas back-issue orders: add $4.50 and $6.50 cdn respectively. Arc 1 to 10 are out of print, and available on microfiche. Highlights from our publishing history include: 27: Coach House Press: The First Ten Years 32: Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Canada 35: Chilean-Canadian Poetry 40: We All Begin in a Little Magazine: Arc and the Promise of Canada’s Poets, 1978–1998 51: Ottawa Poetry Now 62: Ghazal Mania: John Thompson’s Legacy Poetry Annual 2010: How Poems Work 66: QuArc 72: Poetry Annual 2013: The North (out of print) Arc accepts unsolicited submissions of previously unpublished poems from September 1 to May 31. Please see arcpoetry.ca for full guidelines and to use our online submission manager. For reviews, interviews, and articles, please query first. Arc Box 81060, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 1B1 [email protected] Cover Image: Petra Halkes, Greenhouse with Red Car, 2011. Oil on Canvas© artist 2014. ISSN 0705-6397 Copyright © 2014 by the contributors Printer: Elm Printing, Ottawa Typeface: Rotis Serif Cover printed on Supreme Matte Cover, inside pages on Supreme Matte Text White, FSC® Certified 30% Post-Consumer Waste Publications Mail Agreement No. 40052907; Registration No. 09072 ARCPOETRYMAGAZINE Summer 2014 Canada’s Poetry Magazine Arc Poetry Society Ottawa, Canada arcpoetry.ca COnTEnTS 4 SHAnE RHODES, THE EMPTY WORLD FILLED IN: CHRiS JEnningS & LiSE ROCHEFORT POEMS Editors’ Note CHAD CAMPBELL POEM OF THE YEAR 34 Iain Lachlan Campbell ROO BORSOn Grand Prize 35 Three poems KRiSTinA BRESnEn 7 Consider the Lilies ROBERT CURRiE 40 Long Weekend Coming Readers’ Choice DARRYL WHETTER MATT JOnES 42 Condoms 14 Wounded Village STEViE HOWELL Editors’ Choices 43 Four poems STEVE MCORMOnD AnTOnY Di nARDO 15 On the Difficulties of Writing Urban 48 Two poems Pastoral CHAngMing YUAn nAnCY HOLMES 50 The Jiujielity of Liknonomics: English 18 Dementia, the Queen Updated JEnniFER ziLM KATHERin EDWARDS 20 My Psychiatrist Was a Math Major 51 The Misnaming of Weeds MiCHAEL LiTHgOW M. TRAViS LAnE 22 I am a cradle in a windstorm 56 Widow PATRiCK WARnER DIANA BREBNER PRIZE 58 Two poems AnnE MARiE TODKiLL SARA BACKER 23 Strontium-90 62 Spit ViViAn VAVASSiS ESTHER MAzAKiAn 24 In Stellar Parallax 63 Melodica DAniEL COWPER 76 1400 Cromie Rd. 2 ARC POETRY MAGAZINE SUMMER 2014 z. RAFi KHAn gARY BARWin 77 Remainder and Sold 71 Five poems YOKO’S DOgS DAViD ESO 92 Three tankas 116 A Cue and Eh? with bill bissett JESSE PatriCK FERgUSOn BiLL BiSSETT 104 Migraine 122 Three poems BREn SiMMERS 106 Two poems HOW POEMS WORK CATHERinE BRUnET CARMELiTA MCgRATH 108 Solstice 52 “In a Glass Darkly” by M. Travis Lane TOM WAYMAn BRiAn BARTLETT 109 Two poems 128 “All This Night Long” by Robert Gibbs MARK LAVORATO A PLEATED MÖBIUS STRIP: REVIEWS 112 Two poems JEnniFER STiLL JOHn WALL BARgER 133 If Bees are Few: Three Poets from the 114 Ash Baptism Prairies ESSAYS PHOEBE WAng 142 The Width of their Breath SARAH nEViLLE 26 Prolegomena to Any Future 147 JM Francheteau on John Barton Anthology That Will Be Able to 148 Shane Neilson on bill bissett Present Itself for Sale 150 Patricia Keeney on Don Domanski AMAnDA JERnigAn 93 The Rymer: Jay Macpherson 151 Andrew Johnson on Tom Marshall 153 Emily McGiffin on Anne Michaels IN CONVERSATION 154 Rhonda Batchelor on Leon Rooke SAnDRA RiDLEY 156 Online Reviews 64 Gary Barwin: Listening to Your Own Hive Mind VISUAL ART 84 PETRA HALKES CONTENTS 3 EDiTORS’ nOTE Shane Rhodes, Chris Jennings and Lise Rochefort Editors’ Note One of the many benefits ofArc ’s poem of the year contest is it gives the editors at Arc the opportunity to read poetry from across the country, from established poets, from poets who are just starting out, and a lot of poets in-between. This year was no different. We received almost 500 poems from poets in every province and territory except PEI, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. We received packs of poems about almost any topic you can imagine and some which you likely can’t. Out of this multitude, we had to pick one winner of the Arc Poem of the Year $5,000 Prize. We acknowledge the craziness of this task. First, how were we going to agree on what was the best poem when we sometime can’t even agree on what a poem is? Second, how can anyone just have one “best” poem when so much of what poetry does is question the very ideas of aesthetic hierarchies and commonly agreed upon truths? You see? It could well have taken us a month just to talk through the philosophy of prize giving before we even started to read the poems. However, our editors were able to set some of these concerns aside and dedicated two weeks of their time to the annual near impossible job of picking one winner. This year, the winning poem was “Consider the Lilies” by Kristina Bresnen. This is what the editors said of the poem: What “Consider the Lilies” accomplishes within the elastic constraints of Bresnen’s corona sonnet is quite remarkable. In satisfying the demands of its form, the poem surpasses its structure through lines 4 ARC POETRY MAGAZINE SUMMER 2014 finely crafted and nuanced, cant-like language where specters from the King James Bible mix with Luther, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rosetti, and Browning. With shadings of the sonnet redoublé, repeated words (hands, blood, widows, crows, lilies, toil and spin) tumble over themselves, spiraling yet, each time, with new images that carry the reader along in a kind of literary undertow. This is a finely crafted poem full of mystery and interconnectiveness, expertly woven, creating a strange landscape of both genesis and finality. This is a poem to consider again and again. There is only one prize winner; however our judges, our editors and our electronic poetry fans have also picked a handful of poems they thought were worthy of high accolades. Nancy Holmes’ “Dementia the Queen,” Matt Jones’ “Wounded Village,” Michael Lithgow’s “I am a Cradle in a Windstorm,” Steve McOrmond’s “On the Difficulties of Writing Urban Pastoral” and Jennifer Zilm’s “My Psychiatrist Was a Math Major.” We’ve included all of these poems in this issue. In addition to the Poem of the Year Prize, we are also pleased to announce the winning poems of this year’s Diana Brebner Prize, which is open to poets in the Ottawa area who have not yet published a book. This year, our judge Pearl Pirie chose Anne Marie Todkill’s “Strontium 90” as the winner and Vivan Vavassis’ “Stellar Parallax” as the runner-up. The prose in this issue offers a counterpoint to contests. Contests, specifically single- poem contests like ours, are a way station, a moment of validation. Anthologies offer a similar validation through selection. A poem or poet is included in a particular company, though what defines the company, and why we might see this selection as validation, is worth considering. Sarah Neville writes in this issue: “the titular adjective ‘best’ does such heavy duty that in explaining […] anthologies it renders the concept almost meaningless, and an exasperated critic realizes very quickly that the word is usually meant only to signify ‘that which the editor happens to like most.’” Nevertheless, in well-constructed anthologies, “[t]he individual poems are made better by their new context.” Further down this line are the poets whose consistency transcends individual moments of recognition, and in this issue we focus attention on several poets who have SHANE RHODES, CHRIS JENNINGS AND LISE ROCHEFORT 5 secured lasting reputations. Amanda Jernigan, herself known for remarkable precision and poetic wit, unpacks Jay Macpherson’s small, potent poetic output in this issue. Shifting to a wildly different area of the poetic spectrum, David Eso speaks with the sui generis bill bissett about his latest work, and Sandra Ridley’s interview with Gary Barwin serendipitously works territory that Barwin and bissett share.
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