| Categories | Guyanese literature |
|---|---|
| Founder | British Guiana Writers' Association (BGWA) British Guiana Union of Cultural Clubs (BGUCC) |
| Founded | 1945 |
| First issue | December 1945 |
| Country | Guyana |
| Language | English |
Kyk-Over-Al (sometimes written as Kykoveral and often informally abbreviated to Kyk) is a literary magazine published in Guyana (formerly British Guiana), and is one of the three pioneering literary magazines founded in the 1940s that helped define postwar West Indian literature (the other two were Bim, published in Barbados and still in existence today under the editorship of Esther Phillips, and Focus, published in Jamaica). Kyk-Over-Al is indelibly associated with the Guyanese poet and editor A. J. Seymour, the magazine's longtime editor. After Seymour's death in 1989 the editorship was assumed by poet and novelist Ian McDonald.
Kyk-Over-Al was "a forerunner in its efforts to stimulate a Caribbean theory and practice of literary criticism, addressing such issues as language and the use of vernacular, audience, the influence of metropolitan culture and the role of historical awareness in establishing a shared 'West Indian' identity."[1] The magazine was initially published between 1945 and 1961, ceasing publication shortly before the West Indies Federation broke up,[1] and was revived in 1984.