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bpNichol, 1944-1988

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1944 September 30 - 1988 September 25

Parallel Names

  • Nichol, BP

Nationality

Candian

Found in 329 Collections and/or Records:

4 Fancies for bp / UU, David ; Nichol bp., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-57700-10000956
Scope and Contents

This work was first publishedin 1986 in three copies as "4 fantasies on 'bp'.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

5 cents: a landscape for bp / Beaulieu, Derek ; Nichol bp., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36092-37870
Scope and Contents

Also designated house press extra XII. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

10FOUR / Letters Bookshop ; Nichol bp ; curry jw ; Fones R ; Bowering G ; Ball N ; Caruso B ; Gilbert G ; Davey F ; Basmajian S ; Souster R ; Dudek L ; Gilbert G ; Coleman J., 1991

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Identifier: CC-07599-7744
Scope and Contents

This book is an annotated bibliography of two Canadian small presses, Coach House Press and Contact. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

A Book of the Book / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; Clay, Steven, editor ; McCaffery S ; Nichol bp ; Young K ; Smith K ; Stein G ; Blake W ; Perloff M ; Cendrars B ; Delaunay S ; Marinetti FT ; Janecek G ; Khlebnikov V ; Maizels J ; Breton A ; Ernst M ; Duchamp M ; Artaud A ; Carothers M ; Meltzer D ; Borges J ; Phillips T ; Drucker J ; Roth D ; Hamilton R ; Knowles A ; Cutts S ; Tyson I ; Kaprow A ; Finlay A ; Finlay IH ; Schneemann C ; Fahrner B ; Watts B ; Bernstein C ; King S ; Cobbing B ; Derrida J ; Jabes E ; Mallarme S ; Goncharova N ; Brown B ; King R ; Jess ; Spector B ; Bing X ; Lessick H ; Spector B ; Mottram E ; Curnoe G ; Broudy H ; Blaine J ; Bory JF ; Stein C ; Quasha G ; Four Horsemen ; MacLow J ; Oliveros P ; King S ; Howe S ; Barthes R ; Jess ; Upton L ; Ringgold F., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34674-36375
Scope and Contents The subtitle of this book is "Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing." It is divided into four sections" Pre-faces; The Opening of the Field; The Book Is as Old as Fire & Water; and The Book to Come. Marjorie Perloff contributes an essay from "The Futurist Moment" in which she describes "La Prose du Transsiberien" by Cendrars and Delaunay. The book Includes two fold-out pages that reproduce this work as well as an English translation of the poem (the original of this book is held by the Sackner Archive).Gerald Janecek contributed an essay from "Kruchonykh and the Manuscript Books" describing Old Fashioned Love,' 'A Game in Hell and 'World Backwards.' Johanna Drucker wrote, "The Artist's Book as Idea and Form" in which she describes the artist's book as "the quintessential twentieth-century artform. Artists's books appear in every major movement in art and literature and have provided a unique means of realizing works within all of the many avant-garde,...
Dates: 2000

a book of variations; love - zygal - art facts, 2013

 Item
Identifier: CC-56497-9999901
Scope and Contents

This book reprints three previous published books by bpNichol, all of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

A selection of Poems from The Martyrology Books 6 and 7 / Nichol, bp., 1988

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Identifier: CC-34702-36405
Scope and Contents

Printed for English 102, fall semester, 1988 at Simon Fraser University. The cover concrete poem is entitled "From gifts" and is a work in progress. The book was owned by Warren Tallman, a Canadian poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

AAA / Nichol, bp., 1986

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Identifier: CC-52066-73168
Scope and Contents

According to jw curry in room 3o2 books 10D catalogue 2007, about 20 to 25 copies were printed to be included in Curvd H&Z card series but this did not materialize and perhaps only five copies survived. This copy is one of the five. A modificationof the piece appeared in Industrial Sabotage #39. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

A/'AH / Beaulieu, Derek ; Nichol bp., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36084-37861
Scope and Contents

The drawing in this book consists of a three dimensional 'A' that becomes an 'H'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

ABC: The Aleph Beth Book / Nichol, bp., 1971

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Identifier: CC-30430-31850
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of a picture of a single letter design that is bordered by a red frame. All the letter pictures have a brief caption except for the letter 'E'. Letter pictures for 'Y' and 'Z' are ommitted. The caption for 'A' reads Poetry Being At A Dead End Poetry and for 'B' Dead. Having Accepted This Fact We Are. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Along A Visual Continuum: Parts 1-7 / Gorman, Leroy; Swede G; Roseliep R; Houedard DS; Nichol bp., 1987

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Identifier: CC-31507-32999
Scope and Contents

Gorman lucidly interpretes several concrete poems in a comparison to Haiku poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

An H in teh Heart: A Reader / Nichol, bp ; Bowering G ; Ondaatje M ; levy da ; Gorman L ; Cobbing B ; Smith St ; Kroetsch R ; McCaffery S., 1994

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Identifier: CC-48506-69535
Scope and Contents

The works for this volume were selected by George Bowering and Michael Ondaatje who respectively contributed a forward and an afterward. Nichol provide several hilarious stories about body parts. This book includes a graphic novella illustrated with photographs of Nichol and his friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

an interim thanks to those in the service / curry, jw; Nichol bp., 2003

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Identifier: CC-45318-47504
Scope and Contents

The cover image, that was done by bp Nichol, was published in rawculture in sep 71. This card, reproducing that image, was sent to individuals who have helped curry with his ongoing book on bp Nichol, "CYCLOPOEDIA BEEPLIOGRAPHIA." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003