GrOnk

grOnk, or GRoNK, was a seminal Canadian literary magazine begun in 1967 by David Aylward, David W.Harris (later David UU; co-editor for the first series (8 issues, 1967), and editor of most of the 7th series (5 of 8 issues, 1971)), bpNichol & Rah Smith (i.e. Robert Hindley-Smith). After the primary 8 series of 8 issues each were published, it was Nichol's efforts that maintained the irregular periodical, with guest editors including (but not limited to) Nelson Ball, jwcurry, Steve McCaffery & R.Murray Schafer. An offshoot of Ganglia Press's "Ganglia" magazine (founded in Toronto, Ontario, in 1965 by Aylward and Nichol), grOnk began with material gathered for Ganglia's 6th issue & became a monthly publication focusing on concrete poetry and "the language revolution" underway in Canada at the time (principally in Toronto & Vancouver), publishing a wide variety of "extralinear" writing from an international cast of contributors anchored in a context of parallel developments in Canadian literature.

One of Canada's longest running independent little magazines, grOnk ran for 126 distinct issues in a wide range of book & magazine formats utilizing diverse print technologies such as letterpress, rubberstamp, mimeography, offset &, later, xerography & audiocassette, including many hand-wrought additions (for examples, John Riddell's "A hOle in the Head" included many handcoloured pages & scissor-cut windows, while jwcurry's "AS IS OR WITH" was drawn entirely by hand throughout the edition). 6 issues, the grOnk Piggyback Series, ran as broadside sections in the Toronto literary tabloid "Poetry Canada Review" (1987-89).

grOnk ceased publication in 1988 with the death of bpNichol, although some numbers have continued to be issued in the grOnk Inadmissible Series by Nicky Drumbolis's Letters & jwcurry's Room 302 Books.


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