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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 129 Collections and/or Records:

Silence / Caruso, Barbara ; Nichol bp., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-17045-17401
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Singing Hands Series: Cold Mountain. No.3 / bp Nichol., 1966

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Identifier: CC-36850-38683
Scope and Contents

According to Nelson Ball, 200 copies were printed but 120 copies were accidently destroyed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Singing Hands Series: Scraptures: Second Sequence. No.1 / bp Nichol ; bissett b., 1965

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Identifier: CC-36855-38688
Scope and Contents

This is Nichol's second book in which he prints wordplay mainly on the word "beware." The cover was designed by bill bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Special Collections / Anonymous ; Pound E ; Olson C ; McClure M ; Gilbert G ; Nichol bp ; Blake W., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35171-36905
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Spider Plots In Rat-Holes: Cycle. Mar / bp Nichol., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-52067-73169
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Spring / Coach House Press ; Nichol bp ; Riddell J ; McCaffery S ; Finlay IH ; Cobbing B ; Nations O ; Wah F ; O'Huigin S ; Joans T ; Vaughn-James M ; Brossard N., 1978

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Identifier: CC-17160-17518
Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

The Alphabet Game; A bpNichol Reader edited by Darren Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson / Nichol, bp ; Ball H., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47522-68530
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "bpNichol was one of Canada's most innovative, eclectic, entertaining, and, yes, enigmatic poets, making startling interventions in the development of poetry and profoundly influencing both his own and subsequent generations of writers. The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader amasses key texts from the very broad spectrum of Nichol's work, including both classic favourites and more obscure treasures. From the early typewriter poetry of Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer and the life-long poem The Martyrology to the heartbreaking prose of Journal and the whimsical autobiography of Selected Organs, The Alphabet Game traces the trajectory of this wildly imaginative and prolific poet. This Nichol anthology is an ideal introduction for readers encountering Nichol for the first time, and a much-needed compendium for Nichol fans seeking access to works not readily available. "His wit, along with the seriousness, was there to keep the language free and untethered, to keep...
Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Basho Variations / McCaffery, Steve ; Houedard DS ; Nichol bp ; Higgins D ; Queneau R ; Ernst M ; Carroll L., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48448-69476
Scope and Contents

McCaffery has published very witty variations on this poem in the imagined style of others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The bpNichol Tribute / bp Nichol; L Tostevin; P Webb; B Dedora; F Wah; D McFadden; G Shikatani; M Ondaatje; P Dutton; S McCaffery; R Barreto-Rivera; Four Horsemen., 1989

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Identifier: CC-05605-5712
Scope and Contents

This recording constitutes a memorial service to bp Nichol from writings chosen and read by his friends on Toronto's Harbourfront, December 2, 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Audiovisual Materials

The bpNichol Tribute / bp Nichol; L Tostevin; P Webb; B Dedora; F Wah; D McFadden; G Shikatani; M Ondaatje; P Dutton; S McCaffery; R Barreto-Rivera; Four Horsemen., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-05605-5712
Scope and Contents

This recording constitutes a memorial service to bp Nichol from writings chosen and read by his friends on Toronto's Harbourfront, December 2, 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Audiovisual Materials

The Grammer Trilogy: Hours 20, 21 & 22 from The Book of Hours, part of The Martyrology Bk VI / Nichol, bp., 1982

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Identifier: CC-32320-33884
Scope and Contents

Printed for a reading by bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

The Martyrology Book 9: Ad Sanctos / Nichol, bp ; Gerhard, Howard., 1993

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Identifier: CC-34226-35913
Scope and Contents

This is a choral performance work that consists of words by bp nichol and music by Howard Gerhard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Tlaloc. No.13 / Cavan McCarthy, editor ; levy da ; Baxter E ; Clark TA ; Carter A ; Chopin H ; Nichol bp ; Hausmann R ; Fisher R., 1965

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Identifier: CC-48236-69260
Scope and Contents

bp Nichol designed the cover. "The Para-Concrete Manifesto" by the North American concretists (da levy) is on the back cover. This manifesto is also present on the verso of a letter from Cavan McCarthy to George Dowden which is also held by the Sackner Archive. Loc-Sheets No.17-24 that document the concrete poetry scene in 1966 is stapled to one copy of this issue. da levy contributed a typed. punctuation poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Tonto or: alaphbit. No.7 / bp Nichol., 1966

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Identifier: CC-50827-71905
Scope and Contents

This pamphlet was included in Agentzia 2 but is stored in the "Tonto or" portfolio box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Tonto or: Vision in the U of T Stacks. No.3 / bp Nichol., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-01524-1557
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

TTbpN2: Translating translating bpNichol Part 2 / Beaulieu, Derek, editor ; Basinski M ; Cain S ; fyffe cj ; Hennessy N ; Nichol bp ; Peters C ; Scobie S ; Peters C ; Betts G ; Xisto P ; levy da., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36086-37863
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Twenty/20 / Coach House Press ; Nichol bp ; Ball N ; Copithorne J ; Bowering G ; Clark TA ; Ginsberg A ; McCaffery S ; Cobbing B ; Curnoe G ; Finlay IH ; Nations O ; UU D., 1985

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Identifier: CC-17162-17520
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Underlines / Underwhich Editions ; Cobbing B ; Xisto P ; Truhlar R ; Basmajian S ; McCaffery S ; Smith S ; Dedora B ; Nichol bp ; Dean M ; Fencott PC ; bissett b ; curry jw., 1982

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Identifier: CC-31522-33015
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

[Untitled] / Coach House Press ; Bowering G ; Nichol bp ; Clark TA ; Nations O., 1980

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Identifier: CC-17152-17510
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

[Untitled] / Coach House Press ; Nichol bp ; Bowering G ; Atwood M ; Tostevin L., 1983

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Identifier: CC-17168-17526
Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

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