Back cover image for 'Open Letter' (Sixth Series, no. 1: Spring 1985)
In the mid-1980s, OpenLetter — Canada’s defunct and dearly missed journal of theory and poetics — dedicated five issues of the journal to notation for poetry and language. Each installment of this series contains a range of texts that intersect with the idea of notation to explore topics including reading, rhythm, composition, documentation, and performance.
Imaging the voice
Notating poetic vocalization
In the mid-1980s, Open Letter — Canada’s defunct and dearly missed journal of theory and poetics — dedicated five issues of the journal to notation for poetry and language. Each installment of this series contains a range of texts that intersect with the idea of notation to explore topics including reading, rhythm, composition, documentation, and performance.
“Notation is a set
of instructions for
reading (in) the
future” (Robert Kroetsch)