THE POEM COMPANY [c]

edited by [John McDonald, Henry Rappoport, Ed Varney].

 

Vancouver, Intermedia Press, [early february 197o?].

 

4-1/4 x 5-1/2, 2 sheets cream bond folded & stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black offset with blue ubberstamp addition to front cover.

 

cover graphic by [Ed Varney?].

no contributors ID'd.

 

includes:

i) "The Poem Company", by [Edwin Varney] (the entirety of the previous issue shrunk & used as the back cover collage, featuring Ed Varney's CONCRETE POETRY further miniaturized, including Nichol's 2 concrete poems eyes 3 & eyes 1 above), only visible anymore as outlines)

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• The Poem Company issues are all unnumbered & anonymous, a small quantity of each held back for binding into yearly volumes. it's unknown for certain which series this is from (3 series of some 5o issues each) but, given many of Varney's statements of an intended fixation on concrete poetry, it's reasonable to assume that he may have in fact begun the Poem Company mailouts with the 2nd-previous issue's almost-monograph as a means of courting such submissions from amongst his hitlist.

• i've assigned small roman numeral numbers to these 4 issues as a means of differentiation & will correct if i ever find an accurate accounting of the series.[edited by Ed Varney. Vancouver, Intermedia Press, 1969?].

• THE POEM COMPANY [a]

• THE POEM COMPANY [b]

• THE POEM COMPANY [d]

Done