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bpNichol, 1944-1988

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1944 September 30 - 1988 September 25

Parallel Names

  • Nichol, BP

Nationality

Candian

Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:

Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-22196-22618
Scope and Contents

Cover painting by bissett. Len Early wrote the introduction to this selection of bissett's poems from 1962-1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Selected Poems: Particular Accidents, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-22166-22588
Scope and Contents

Edited and with an introductory essay by Robin Blaser. Includes a poem portrait, "bp Nichol." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Strange Grey Town, 1966

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-26581-27050
Scope and Contents

The title page states "(concrete poem project for daLevy & the poets of cleveland)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Two Novels: Andy / For Jesus Lunatick, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-31521-33014
Scope and Contents

The dust jacket is chipped and torn in several places. However the black cloth cover and the text and images are in fine condition. The prose and poems are printed in back to back reversed sections for each of the two novels. The novel "For Jesus Lunatick" is printed without punctuations in a highly experimental layout including several numbered blank pages. The latter are for numbered illustrations placed in the center section that the reader is requested to cut and paste to the respective page. "Andy "is punctuated and layed out experimentally with some pages concrete poetic in appearance. It, too, has several pages that are numbered and blank with exception of a single number placed at different locations to receive the illustrations from the cutttings in the center section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Visitation 2nd Edition, 2007

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-47287-50030
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of variations on small o's forming the letter 'H.' This book was originally published in 26 lettered copies for the "On the H orizon" celebration in memory of bp Nichol held at Emily Carr College, Vancouver, September 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Wording the Silent Art: Essays and Writings , 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-58988-10002178
Scope and Contents

Amazon.com: Wording the Silent Art collects Barbara Caruso's essays on the contemporary art scene, including controversial issues like the National Gallery's purchase of Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire and the recent transformation of public galleries from institutions of preservation to places of pop entertainment and the effect this has on art. She also writes with elegance and verve on the subject of her own painting, on painting practice, and on how to look at visual art. Her generous and wise advice to a young painter is worth the price of this book alone. Caruso's is a unitary, clear, communicating voice, and she brings to the reader a marvellous and accessible vision of the essential nature of art in our lives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Works 1965-1972 Volume 1, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27400-28443
Scope and Contents

This book was compiled by jw curry from unpublished (?) concrete poems of bp Nichol's early work which were composed by typings or writings. curry had access to these works through cataloging of Nichol's archive. These works emphasize the diversity and intelligence of Nichol's typewriter poetry; the calligraphic works are presented with far less examples. The cited authors in this book consist of those whom Nichol composed a poem in their style or as an homage to them. The covers of the book have been collaged with a dust jacket created from an overprinting of a cover by Coach House Press entitled, 'New Wave Canada.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Works 1965-1972 Volume 2, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27401-28444
Scope and Contents

This book was compiled by jw curry from unpublished (?) concrete poems of bp Nichol's early work which were composed by typings or writings. curry had access to these works through cataloging of Nichol's archive. He has had access to such work through his cataloging of Nichol's archive. The works emphasize the diversity and intelligence of Nichol's typewriter poetry; the calligraphic works are presented with far less examples. The cited authors in this book consist of those whom Nichol composed a poem in their style or as an homage to them. The covers of the book have been collaged with a dust jacket created from an overprinting of a cover by Coach House Press entitled, 'New Wave Canada.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Works 1965-1972 Volume 3, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27402-28445
Scope and Contents

This book was compiled by jw curry from unpublished (?) concrete poems of bp Nichol's early work which were composed by typings or writings. curry had access to these works through cataloging of Nichol's archive. The works in this volume emphasize Nichol's visual poems and concrete poems made with letraset.; the typewriter poems are presented with far less examples. The covers of the book have been collaged with a dust jacket created from an overprinting of a cover by Coach House Press entitled, 'New Wave Canada.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

You Too, Nicky / Nichol, bp., 1986

 Item — Box 625: [Barcode: 31858073143897]
Identifier: CC-29725-31102
Scope and Contents

The poetry is taken from the Martyrology Bo(o)ks 7 (VII). This book differs from a book with the same title, published posthumously by Eleanor Nichol in 1990, that has but 7 rather than 15 pages. The two concrete poems in this book are disintegrating letter pictures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986