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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Artfacts: A Book of Contents / Nichol, bp., 1990

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Identifier: CC-05510-5615
Scope and Contents

Third volume in an ongoing series. First was Love C1972 & second Zygal 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Beach Head / Nichol, bp ; Wagner Dr., 1970

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Identifier: CC-50568-71640
Scope and Contents

The cover line drawing was done by D.r. Wagner. In a poatscript, Nichol disavows these poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

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

Bumblebee Dittyramb / Rosenblatt, Joe ; Nichol bp., 1972

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Identifier: CC-50438-71506
Scope and Contents

Includes a printed cartoon by bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

In England Now That Spring (Deluxe Edition) / McCaffery, Steve ; Nichol, bp ; Clark TA., 1979

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Identifier: CC-38159-40053
Scope and Contents

The final section of this book consists of The Martyrology Book V: Chains 2 and 0. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

In England Now That Spring / McCaffery, Steve ; Nichol, bp ; Clark TA., 1979

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Identifier: CC-38160-40054
Scope and Contents

The final section of this book consists of The Martyrology Book V: Chains 2 and 0. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

In England Now That Spring / McCaffery, Steve ; Nichol, bp ; Clark TA., 1979

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Identifier: CC-38161-40055
Scope and Contents

The final section of this book consists of The Martyrology Book V: Chains 2 and 0. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Selected Poems: Particular Accidents, 1980

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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

The (Almost) Instant Anthology '88 / Daurio, Beverley, editor ; Jones, editor ; Nichol, bp, editor ; curry jw ; Dedora B ; Joe ; Kilpatrick N ; Necakov L ; Venright S., 1988

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Identifier: CC-30399-31818
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This publication was done at the 2nd Toronto Small Press Book Fair. Writers were invited to submit one page of poetry or prose to the editors four days before the Fair. Nancy Kilpatrick contributed a poem shaped as a side view of a hamburger on a bun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Captain Poetry Poems Complete / Nichol, bp ; curry jw ; bissett b., 2011

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Identifier: CC-55219-9998981
Scope and Contents Book Thug Internet: Poetry, comic book art, pop culture, concrete poetry, the lyric, the myth of the cowboy, even the myth of the poet-hero: these are just some of the avenues explored by bpNichol in The Captain Poetry Poems. In this short portrait of the poet as a young man, our hero is a dilemma: part fabrication and part confession, Cap is a character created by these poems that extends their author into realms of possible identities. Who is Captain Poetry? Is he a poet? Is he a hero? Is he the bearer of heretofore important and unknown knowledge? Written at a time when questions about what poetry might be; when questions about what the figure of the poet might be, The Captain Poetry Poems showed Nichol grappling with some of the cliches inherent to both his craft and his identity. Playful, even at times silly, but never without the human intelligence Nichol is best known for, these poems may not be the "best" work in Nichol's oeuvre, but their experiments reveal important...
Dates: 2011

The Captain Poetry Poems / Nichol, bp., 1971

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Identifier: CC-55218-53873
Scope and Contents This book was reissued by Book Thug in 2011 with a new afterword by bill bissett.Internet: This book tells the story of the eponymous superhero and his struggle to find happiness. Bald, beaked and wattled, "Cap""”Nichol's pet name for him"”is hardly the rock-jawed conqueror. In fact, with his visor, spandex, wings and six-pack abs, our man looks like a mutant chicken. Cap is a sad sack: self-conscious, plagued by doubts, undone by indecision, torn about his purpose in life. Nichol shouts encouragements from the sidelines ("O CAPTAIN POETRY SEE IT THRU") but, plum out of ideas, Cap finds himself in a Groundhog Day funk ("O he sings like a madman, talks like he's sane, / and does it each day again and again"). And popping up everywhere in the book (in one case even cradling Captain Poetry's head) is Nichol's most intriguing and disquieting alter ego: Milt the Morph, the dementedly smiling, empty-eyed troublemaker. It's obvious Nichol intended the book to be both a send-up of the...
Dates: 1971

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

Thumbprints / Fetherling, Douglas, editor ; Nichol bp ; bissett b ; Atwood M ; Ball N ; Souster R ; Garnet E ; Colombo JR., 1969

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Identifier: CC-11248-11463
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Subtitled "An Anthology of Hitchhiking Poems," this may be considered a precursor to the hitchhiking poems and journal of John Curry on his trip across Canada in 1994, held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969