Visual poetry
Found in 2 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
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.
Impulse: One Word Poems. No.1 / Peter Day, editor ; Barwin G ; bissett b ; Caruso B ; Cherry K ; curry jw ; Cutts S ; DeCampos A ; Downsborough P ; Fetherling D ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Gappmayr H ; Higgins D ; j(o(h)n)ston b ; Kostelanetz R ; Lawler L ; McCaffery S ; Nash D ; Selenitsch A ; Shohachiro T ; UU D ; Weiner L ; Williams J ; Wool C ; Basmajian S., 1990
This includes an essay by Peter Day about a reminiscence of Shunt Basmajian just before Day died as this issue was going to press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.