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- ↑ Stacey, Robert Davice (2011). Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism. Toronto: University of Ottawa Press. p. 320.
Specific proactive publishing initiatives to make the new poetry available further developed this community network...GrOnk magazine, founded in 1967 by bpNichol and others to publish "borderblur texts" by bill bissett and others because they were not readily available in Toronto.
- ↑ Butling, Pauline; Rudy, Susan (2006). Writing in Our Time: Canada's Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003). Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 6.
Chronology...grOnk publications (Toronto 1967-1980). Edited by David W. Harris, bpNichol, and rah smith. Published both Canadian and European "borderblur" poets. Contributors include bill bissett, Victor Coleman, d.a. levy, Ian Hamilton Finlay. Ganglia Press and grOnk publications became the core of the concrete and visual poetry movement in Canada.
- ↑ Stephen Voyce (17 June 2013). Poetic Community: Avant-Garde activism and Cold War Culture. University of Toronto Press. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-4426-6573-6.
