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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Archive for Defying Linear Deification: Contemporary Toronto Visual Poetry and its Afterward 1 / curry, jw; Birney E; Nichol bp; UU D; Aylward D; Broudy H; Dutton P; McCaffery S; Truhlar R; Dean M; Amann E; Swede G; Shikatani G; Goluska G., 1987

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Identifier: CC-20775-21180
Scope and Contents

curry traces the development of concrete and visual poetry in Toronto for an essay in Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly Vol.9 No.3-4, 1987, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. He lists Earle Birney's book entitled pnomes jukollages and other stunzas 1969, as the first concrete poetry by a main stream Canadian poet. He comments that bp Nichol's 1st book, Cycles etc., 7 Flowers Press, were chant structures that relied heavily on visual sonic similarities between words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Gronk Intermediate Series: White Sound. No.7 / bp Nichol ; Aylward D., 1976

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Identifier: CC-36860-38693
Scope and Contents

This book was first published in an edition of two copies in 1966 as a collaboration with David Aylard. One copy is in the Hans Sohm Archives and the other was retained by Nichol. It was made with a combination of rubberstamping and mimeography. The present book was composed with a combination of rubberstamping and photocopying. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976