Steve McCaffery was born in England, uneducated in Canada & now lives in Toronto with his wife & a collection of 18th century literature. He is 1/4th of THE FOUR HORSEMEN, a Toronto-based collaborative sound-poetry group. This first panel of CARNIVAL was executed entirely on the type- writer from 1967-1970. Discarded sections of this panel have appeared in: grOnk              the cosmic chef ed. by bp nichol (oberon)              new direction in canadian poetry ed. by j. r. colombo                           (holt, rinehart & winston) A second panel is under construction. Earlier books include GROUND PLANS FOR A SPEAKING CITY,                       TRANSITIONS TO THE BEAST &                       MAPS: a different landscape