File consists of 1 complete box set of 52 Pickup 76 and 26 display copies of broadsides featured in the series. The loose broadsides, likely part of an incomplete exhibition set, range in size and are unfolded.
The 52 Pickup 76 collection features 52 poems by 52 emerging poets, printed on flat or uniformly folded broadsides using a variety of typefaces and coloured paper. The box set includes a title page, colophon, specification sheet, and afterword by editor Greg Gatenby. The specification sheet notes that the paper for the box was made from blue jeans. The box set is #96 of an edition of 100 copies, and is signed and numbered by Gatenby.
A complete list of the poems and poets in numbered sequence appears below. Items in bold have a duplicate stand-alone broadside present in the collection.
1 Robert MacDonald: rhetorical lament
2 Edward Strickland: Worksheet
3 Jan Bartley: Magic
4 Terry Kelly: Madelaine and the Mysteries of the Flesh
5 Judith Fitzgerald: Octave
6 Timothy Shay: lament
7 Ed Jewinski: recurrence and an empty chair
8 Cecilie Jones: Rondania
9 Susan Musgrave: Between Friends
10 Greg Gatenby: Auburn Photograph
11 Pier Giorgio DiCicco: America
12 Karsten Kossman: The Carriers of Umbrellas and Pockets
13 Judi Hurst: Lovers and Linguists
14 Ludwig Zeller: Captain Cook's Last Refuge
15 Fraser Sutherland: Madwomen
16 Ian Young: Alamo
17 Tim Inkster: The Bestiary: Mule
18 Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Lion
19 George Bowering: Daniel Johnston Lying in State
20 David Berry: An Eclipse of the Moon
21 John Robert Columbo: What I Am
22 Tom Wayman: Transport
23 Hans Jewinski: Encyclopedia Salesman, March 16, 1971
24 John Oughton: Zero Aperture, Photographer
25 Joe Rosenblatt: Into the Soups of Rivers
26 Artie Gold: Old Road Poem Song
27 Margaret Atwood: Marsh, Hawk
28 Irving Layton: Catacombe Dei Cappucini
29 Dorothy Livesay: Collared
30 Robin Skelton: Hypothesis
31 Pat Lane: untitled
32 J.D. Carpenter: The Letting Go
33 Jan Kemp: Mystics Mild:Song
34 Victor Coleman: Disengagement Ritual
35 Alden Nowlan: The Departure
36 David Day: Night Passage
37 Ralph Gustafson: Of Beds and Manuscripts
38 Robert Finch: The Autumn Leaves
39 Andrew Suknaski: Almighty Voice
40 George Faludy: Death of a Chleuch Dancer
41 Eugene McNamara: what have you forgotten
42 C.H. Gervais: His Laughter
43 Gail Fox: The Creators
44 Fred Cogswell: Quality
45 Gwen Hauser: So What Else is Old
46 Len Gasparini: Toronto Nocturne
47 David Brooks: The Fields of Becoming
48 Lorraine Vernon: Spire
49 Albert Frank Moritz: On Farming
50 James Reaney: The Whistle
51 Jeni Couzyn: Spell to Cure Barreness
52 Steve McCaffery: Novel 7
