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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 129 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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

a book of variations; love - zygal - art facts edited by Stephen Voyce / Nichol, bp., 2013

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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
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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
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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

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
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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

Archive for Defying Linear Deification: Contemporary Toronto Visual Poetry and its Afterward 1 / curry, jw; Birney E; Nichol bp; UU D; Aylward D; Broudy H; Dutton P; McCaffery S; Truhlar R; Dean M; Amann E; Swede G; Shikatani G; Goluska G., 1987

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Identifier: CC-20775-21180
Scope and Contents

curry traces the development of concrete and visual poetry in Toronto for an essay in Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly Vol.9 No.3-4, 1987, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. He lists Earle Birney's book entitled pnomes jukollages and other stunzas 1969, as the first concrete poetry by a main stream Canadian poet. He comments that bp Nichol's 1st book, Cycles etc., 7 Flowers Press, were chant structures that relied heavily on visual sonic similarities between words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

art facts: a book of contexts / Nichol, bp ; Gorman L ; Padin C., 1990

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Identifier: CC-47586-68595
Scope and Contents

This book consists of an anthology of Nichol's visual and concrete poetic works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

bash(o)ful pondifications / Beaulieu, Derek ; Cain S ; Nichol bp., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36536-38337
Scope and Contents

Cover was drawn by Stephen Cain after a character/style/etc. of bpNichol. The Sackner copy is one of two covers drawn for this pamphlet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Berkeley Horse, The: 4 Ways of Looking at a Name. No.29/Jan / bp Nichol., 1991

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Identifier: CC-22779-23214
Scope and Contents

Produced by David UU. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Bfp(h)age - An Anthology of Visual Poetry and Collage / Basmajian, Shaunt, editor ; J(o(h)n)ston, Brian, editor ; Nichol bp ; Evason G ; curry jw., 1989

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Identifier: CC-23009-23446
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This book includes a reproduction detail of a Daniel f. Bradley rubberstamped drawing on sleep; the original is held by the Sackner Archive. The Sackner Archiv also holds the original typing by Basmajian entitled "After Weeks and Weeks in the Intensive Care Unit" that is reproduced in this book. The total run of this book is probably 300 copies (signing not called for). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Bored Messengers / Nichol, bp., 1988

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Identifier: CC-05634-5741
Scope and Contents

These poems were taken from The Martyrology Bo(o)ks 7 (V11). According to Serendipity Books Canadian Poetry 1998 Internet, the publisher believed that the intended signed edition was abandoned. This was because Nichol died while the book was in press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Briefly; the birthdeath cycle from The Book of Hours / Nichol, bp., 1981

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Identifier: CC-30680-32122
Scope and Contents

According to Nichol, this book is made up of hours 11, 12, 13, & 14 of The Book of Hours tht will appear as the second part of The Martyrology Book VI. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Briefly; the birthdeath cycle from The Book of Hours / Nichol, bp., 1981

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Identifier: CC-30681-32123
Scope and Contents

According to Nichol, this book is made up of hours 11, 12, 13, & 14 of The Book of Hours that will appear as the second part of The Martyrology Book VI. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981