One Zero Zero     A Virtual Library of English Canadian Small Press 1945 - 2044 Timeline     Books     Authors     Presses     Resources     Search     home Presses Alphabet (1960-1971) London, ON James Reaney Alphabet began life as a finely printed, often with hand-set type, literary periodical dedicated to Northrop Frye's notion of "the iconography of the imagination". Each issue was pegged to some archetypal image or myth such as Narcissus or Icarus. Nineteen issues appeared in all, and the magazine evolved from its modest beginnings to include such leading edge writers and artists as bill bissett, David UU, bpNichol, George Bowering, Jack Chambers and Greg Curnoe. 1963        The Dance of Death at London, Ontario, James Reaney & Jack Chambers 1965        Lozenges, Colleen Thibadeau