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.

This work was designed by bp Nichol except for one piece by Andrew Suknaski. Two copies have the printed envelope intact, in another copy, the envelope is frayed, and in the remaining copy, the envelope is absent. The actual edition size was probably 300 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.