52 Pickup 76 (With Additional Ephemera)

Toronto: Dreadnaught Press, 1976. Original wraps. Near Fine. A very impresive 1976 collection of 52 broadside poems (many folded and on various papers) by a number of the leading Canadian poets of the day. This is #5 of only 100 sets issued and the entire collection is neatly contained in a light-brown paper chemise and a folded, hand-made paper box by Andrew James Smith, and is signed at the colophon by the editor Greg Gatenby. Additionally, apart from the broadsides themselves, there's a title page and a Greg Gatenby Afterword. Laid into this copy as well is the publisher's original prospectus and order form, and the "specification" sheet. The poets featured are: Terry Kelly, Jan Bartley, Edward Strickland, Robert MacDonald, Steve McCaffery, Jeni Couzyn, James Reaney, Albert Frank Moritz, Lorraine Vernon, David Brooks, Len Gasparini, Gwen Hauser, Fred Cogswell, Gail Fox, C.H. Gervais, Eugene McNamara, George Faludy, Andrew Suknaski, Robert Finch, Ralph Gustafson, David Day, Aldern Nowlan, Victor Coleman, Jan Kemp, J.D. Carpenter, Pat Lane, Robin Skelton, Dorothy Livesay, Irving Layton, Margaret Atwood, John Robert Colombo, Artie Gold, Joe Rosenblatt, John Oughton, Hans Jewinski, Tom Wayman, David Berry, George Bowering, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Tim Inkster, Ian Young, Fraser Sutherland, Ludwig Zeller, Judi Hurst, Karsetn Kossmann, Pier Giorgio DiCicco, Greg Gatenby, Susan Musgrave, Cecilie Jones, Ed Jewinski, Timothy Shay and Judith Fitzgerald.