Impulse Magazine Archive Of Publications.

Volume 1 Number 1, 1971

Editor:

Peter Such.

Published three times a year: Erindale College, University of Toronto.

Cover Etching:

Irwin Spigel.

Cover Design:

Norman White.

Magazine Design:

Arden Ford.

Secretarial:

Ilka Higgins.

Contributors:

Al Purdy, 'Excess Of Having'; Dennis Lee, 'When It's Over, Second Elegy'; Graeme Gibson, 'from Communion'; Margaret Avison, 'Because Somebody Said "They Dress So Well"', 'Immobility/ Rest/…'; Miriam Waddington, 'Honeymoon House'; Eldon Garnet, 'Angel Two, I Hate This Man'; Tim Inkster, 'The Children's Game Of Jury, Your Knight, Your'; Matt Cohen, 'The End'; Shirley Gibson; Allisan Noble, 'Poem For Don'; Andre Stein; Harold Ladoo, 'from Yesterdays'.

Volume 1 Number 2, Winter 1972

Editor:

Peter Such

Cover Design:

Eric Running

Published three times a year:

Erindale College, University of Toronto

Table of Contents:

Irving Layton, 'Mexico Poems: No Exit, Tide'; I.M. Spigel, 'Metawagons and Orthostars'; George Jonas, 'Airplane Poems: Bomber Pilot, Descending', 'Garment District, New York', 'Crossing The Straits Of Georgia with Beverley', 'Literary Wife'"; Valerie Kent, 'Lunch Undercover'; Margaret Atwood, 'Encounters with The Element Man'; Tim Inkster, 'Mrs. Grundy Poems: The glass bottomed mrs. grundy, Bats are hangmen (innocents), In the fields of her forebears'; Robin Kelsey, 'Norman's Chinese Junk'; John Ditsky, 'Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes', 'Three Spasms After First Brautigan'; Eugene McNamara, 'Forty'; Eldon Garnet, 'from Henry K. a novel'; Dale Zieroth, 'The Magic Men for John Newlove'.

Editorial:

The success of a magazine such as Impulse depends entirely on the quality of the material submitted to the editor. Fortunately, our first issue contained good writing by well known authors and others and it is to these people the editor is grateful for the many congratulatory notices he received from critics and interested readers throughout Canada and the United States.

Contemporary Canadian Writing is as diverse and experimental as contemporary Canadian society. Therefore it is not the editor's intention to try for a kind of artificial unity in the composition of any single issue unless it spontaneously presents itself. Impulse intends to present a continuing survey of the best Contemporary Canadian writing in all the interesting phases of its creative mosaic. This issue, for instance, includes such things as 'Mexico Poems' by Irving Layton, 'Airplane Poems' by George Jonas and an experimental short story by Margaret Atwood as well as some unusual poetry and prose by other writers.

Most of Impulse's circulation so far has been through bookstores across the country from Moncton to Vancouver and in university and public libraries. Our Circulation Manager, however, would like to see a firmer personal subscription base established and to that end is offering a free copy of the first issue published last Fall, a few of which are still available. Please use the subscription form for convenience, or better still write and let us know your comments. All manuscripts will receive personal attention and should include return postage. No critical articles please.

Peter Such

Volume 1 Number 3, Spring 1972

Volume 2 Number 1, Fall 1972

Cover Design:

Dennis Noble

Supervised by Janis Rapoport

Published quarterly by:

Editors with the assistance of the Canada Council and The Ontario Council For The Arts

Table of Contents:

Matt Cohen, 'The Empty Room'; Barry Charles, 'Barry and Maria'; Mark Plourde, 'The White Magnet', 'The Man in the Station'; Randy Thomas, 'There Was Toronto'; John Newlove, 'That There Is No Relaxation', 'The Flock Tougher Than Its Shepherds', 'A Long Continual Argument with Myself'; Chandler Davis, 'A Wife's Song', 'Historian'; Edward Strickland, 'Atelier Oeuf: Lune'; Gary Geddes, 'London', 'Rio Seco'; Derk Wynand, 'Snowscape'; Terence Roberts, 'Image 1', 'Image 2'; Fraser Sutherland, 'The Piazza'; Dennis Lee, 'The Presence Of Pioneers'; Anne Daffos, 'The Planet Sun'.

Editorial:

With this number Impulse enters into its second year of publication. The editorial staff has doubled, the circulation department has moved to separate premises - we seem to have eased into a phase of expansion.

Manuscripts and correspondence continue to arrive steadily, from as far away as the U.K. and the Netherlands. And this issue of Impulse reflects the international interests that unite those who are writing in contemporary Canada. Consider the diversity of the background both of the contributors and of their subjects. A Guyanan and a Canadian-American externalizing their impressions of Toronto, today's and tomorrow's. Canadians from across the country using their native surroundings, those of England, Spain, Italy and France, as well as the unique territories forged by their own imaginations. The prose in this number is experimental, both in style and in content. The poetry ranges from the traditional through to the contemporary.

We continue to be aware of the difficulty for new writers to get their work into print. It is part of our editorial policy to encourage young and new writers and to include them in each issue.

The cover and internal design of each number of the magazine will reflect the nature of its contents. We are eager to look forward as well as back. Part of a musical score appeared in the last issue, an excerpt from a scenario or film script may present itself in the next. We, the editors, challenge the originality and the creativity of our contributors. Their future is ours.

Peter Such

Volume 2 Number 2, Winter 1973

Editor:

Peter Such

Supervised by:

Janis Rapoport

Cover Design:

Barry Rubin

Published quarterly:

Editors with the assistance of the Canada Council and the Ontario Council for the Arts

Table of Contents:

T. H. Crerar, 'A Chronicle'; Norman Skolnick, 'Two Drawings'; Nachman of Bratzlav, 'Tale of a Rabbi and his Son', Translation by Seymour Levitan; Tony Thomas, 'A Reading By Joe Rosenblatt'; Helen Weinzweig, 'Treble Clef'.

Editorial:

The next issue of Impulse promises to be a literary event. It will be a double number (Volume 2, Number 3 and 4) and will have bound within it the second issue of Porcepic Magazine.

Porcepic appeared last year for the first time as a limited edition collector's item put out by David Godfrey (New Press, President of The Independent Publisher's Association) edited and designed by Eldon Garnet and Tim Inkster (poets, operators of Press Porcepic). It featured the best avant-garde writing in Canada. The special Impulse number will also contain an index of poems, short stories etc. published in Impulse during the two years since it began. Extra orders should be placed now. The double issue is priced regularly at $2.00 (Ten or more copies, 40% discount.)

Are writers, like artists and musicians, growing tired, at last, of purely decorative modes? Are they growing tired of repressing their natural human sensibilities in order to adopt the arrogant and sophisticated writing-stances that are currently in fashion?

Most of the prose received lately by the editors of this magazine seems to reflect a desire to communicate human language. Eschewing Joycean manipulations of diction and French aesthetic sophistries, these writers are choosing, instead, a confrontation with structural and mythopoeic elements. These are the things that can cross from one language to another. Northrop Frye, in his introduction to Dialogue Sur La Traduction (Frank Scott's translation of Anne Hebert's poem, 'Tombeau des Rois'), says: ... Mr. Scott quotes Robert Frost as saying that 'the poetry' is what is lost in translation, adding that he does not think this the whole truth. I have become convinced that it is the opposite of the truth, and that 'the poetry' is precisely what . . . can be translated. What cannot be translated are the linguistic accidents.... Working in a context of different languages and cultures, a microcosm of the world itself, is it an historical accident that Canadian writers should be already developing those modes which promise to bind more closely what one of Canada's geniuses has called, The Global Village?

Peter Such

Volume 2 Numbers 3 + 4 and Porcepic Volume 1 Number 2, 1973

Editor:

Peter Such.

Published Quarterly by:

Editors with assistance from the Canada Council and the Ontario Council for the Arts. Porcepic edited by Eldon Garnet.

Cover Graphic:

bill bissett.

Table of Contents:

Harold Sonny Ladoo, 'The Quiet Peasant'; Margaret Atwood, 'Book Of Ancestors'; Joe Rosenblatt, 'The Whole Academy Explodes', 'He is the Mozart Of Animal Sounds', 'The Cool Dream', Eldon Garnet, 'Below Ground Trembling', Dorothy Livesay, 'Getting it Straight', George Bowering, 'David McFadden', Eli Mandel, 'Estevan 1934', 'At Wabamun the Calgary Power Station', 'Lake Wabamun: Summer 68'; Peter Such, 'Floating Bears'; bill bissett, 'canada'; Sue Swan, 'Pit-stop', 'Alternatives'; Dave Godfrey, 'A Dew Year's Morning on Bloor Street'; Michael John Nimchuk, 'Quinte Summer'; Peter Stevens, 'Grandfather'; David Clift, 'Chicago'; Tim Inkster, 'The Ghosts Of All The Horses'; Len Gasparini, 'Trophies'; Hans Jewinski, '!:-;; The Great Shell Game'; George Amabile, 'The Beggar'; Miriam Waddington, 'The Last Rehearsal'; 'Downtown Streets', Max Layton, 'Only In The Stillness'; Pier Giorgio DiCicco, 'Dianne I Could Have Loved You'; Richard Hillman, 'Return Journey By Rail'; John Bemrose, 'Lying In Surrey'; Chuck Carlson, 'Chartreuse Crazies', 'Blakean V8.', 'Ask Me To Write'; David Lewis Stein, 'Back Where I Can Be Me'; Frank Davey, 'The King Of Wands', 'Manuscript, 28 November, 1968 Titled "Justice"', 'Manuscript, 19 January, 1969 Titled "Love Poem, After L.Cohen"', 'The Hanged Man, To Himself'.

Volume 3 Number 1, Fall 1973

Editor:

Peter Such.

Published Quarterly by:

Editor with Assistance of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

Business Manager:

Catherine Stewart.

Table of Contents:

Habitat Brian Henderson, 'Off King William Island (The explorer, Franklin)'; Keith Garebian, 'The Second Language'; Miriam Waddington, 'Charlottetown', 'The Dark Lake'; L. E. Arnold, 'Vineland, Ont.' Katherine Clarke, 'Cedars'; Geoffrey Rutell, 'April 1946'; Jean-Guy Carrier, 'Diamonds'; Fairies At The Bottom of; Richard Hillman, 'Voice From Close-by'; Saam Tata, 'Mother Goosed (poem and Story)', (cartoons) by Peter Walley. Flying Douglas Barbour, 'Evening Flight, 20.2.73.'; 'Flying, 39,000 feet up'; Hans Jewinski '!:-;; Crowded Skies [ Airlift ]', 'Procedures; Lovers and Lesser Pier Giorgio DiCicco, 'Closest to thoughts of her'; Laurence Hutchman, 'By The Pool'; George Jonas, 'A Love Poem'; Anne Daffos, 'Little Indeed'; Richard Hillman, 'A Conversation with Jane'; Charlotte Fielden, 'Bubeh Meisse'. The Process A. Kochanowsky 'On Rembrandt The Jewish Bride'; 'Kensington Birth'; David Clift, 'Empty Bottles'; Rosalind MacPhee, 'Eclipse'; Larry Everson, 'I've got a big old watch in my pocket; Paulette Jiles, 'Scherezade'; Douglas Smith, 'Morning For Van Gogh'; George Jonas, 'Bridges On the Danube'; David Godfrey, 'Free Form Interpretations of the I Ching Hexagrams'.

Volume 3 Number 2, 1974

Editor:

Peter Such.

Associate Editor:

Louise Dennys

Published Quarterly by:

Editor with assistance of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

Table of Contents:

Eli Mandel, 'Criticism as Ghost Story'; Susan Musgrave, 'Skoocumchuk'; Eric Young, 'Hebrides Coast'; Saro d'Agostino, 'Alex Colville's Horse'; Jacques Ferron, 'Little William'; E. Hagerman, 'Expatriating at the Interface'; Linda Pyke, 'To An Expatriate', 'Conspiring'; Les Arnold, 'Immigrant Complaint'; Robert Clayton Casto, 'Underground Fires', 'Casto'; Carl Jackson, 'I Hear A Tambourine'; George Amabile, 'The Ladyrinth'; Joe Rosenblatt, 'Travel', 'Dream Food'; Don McKay, 'October Edge'; Séan Virgo, 'Ludwig'; Mark Sarner, 'The Baker'; Stephen Zeifman, 'Harlequin Rags'; Pat Elliot, 'Velvet Box. Diamond. Mine'; (to John Newlove); Robert Fothergill, 'One - Night Fall (a play)'.

Volume 3 Number 3 + 4, 1974

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Business Manager:

Lorraine Filyer.

Table of Contents:

Introduction; David UU; Joe Rosenblatt; bp Nichol; Daphne Marlatt; Gerry Gilbert; Maxine Gadd; David Dawson; Frank Davey; David Cull; Judith Copithorne; Victor Coleman; bill bissett; Nelson Ball.

Volume 4 Number 1, 1975

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Business Manager:

Lorraine Filyer.

Table of Contents:

Photographs by Fletcher Starbuck.

Volume 4 Number 2, Spring 1975

Edited and Designed:

Eldon Garnet.

Business Manager:

Lorraine Filyer.

Table of Contents:

Jennifer Oille, 'Video Ethics'; 'West Coast Sailing…'; 'Funbun 'N' Eatmeat'; Hugh Miller's Erection; Barbara Astman; R. Rolfe, 'My Arms, Rivers'; Peter Melnick, 'Theatrical Passions'; review by Eldon Garnet, 'El Topo' a film by Alexandro Jodorowsky'; Eugene McNamara; 'Night Air Mail 1922'; Vincent Sharp; Jean McKay 'The White Tornado'; HJ Boenke, 'The Photographers Dance'; 'People's Republic Of Poetry'; Lawrence Mathews 'Mythology of the Body'; R. Billings, 'Experiments with Human Flesh'; Kenneth Strange 'Advertisement for Delayed Action Stop Loss Animal Game Traps'; Frank Davey, 'From Literature To Criticism: A Note'; Brian Trevers, 'Re write…'; 'To Be…'.

Volume 4 Number 3, Fall 1975

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Associate Editor:

Gary Michael Dault.

Business Manager:

Lorraine Filyer.

Table of Contents:

Michael Snow, for Marni de Pencier 'Cover and first pages of Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Zettel"'; Les Levine, 'What can the Government of Canada Do for You?'; A Day in the life of L C Foot'; David Rabinowitch, 'Thoughts on the Long Rotational Mass of Four Scales'; Mark Prent, 'In March, 1972, on the occasion of'; David Gilhooly, 'Excerpts from an Ongoing Saga of the Frog World'.