B. P. Nichol

Nichol's comics (1960-1980) informed his work in other genres as well as the work of other writers.

BpNichol Comics

Steve McCaffery

A Catalogue for the Eleventh International Sound Poetry Festival, Toronto, Canada, October 14 to 21, 1978

Sound Poetry

Paul Dutton

Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum

Gil McElroy

Barbara Caruso

The Visual Poetry of BpNichol

St. Art

Selections from visual poetry to translations by one of the most important poets in the 20th century writing in English.

As Elected

Selected Writing

A thoughtful and provocative 30-year record of Nichol's approaches to textual production.

The Critical Writings of BpNichol

Meanwhile

The Martyrology

BpNichol's The Martyrology is a long poem begun in 1967 and continuing until Nichol's death in 1988. It includes Books 1 & 2 (1972), Book(s) 7 & (1990), and Ad Sanctos: Book 9 (1992). The text in this volume is a facsimile, with minor corrections, of the 1990 edition of Gifts. --Coach House Books.

The Martyrology Book(s) 7 &

Gifts

Howard Gerhard

The final voume of the late B.P. Nichol's famed long poem, The Martyrology. A poetic opera peopled with Nichol's saints of everyday life. --Coach House Books.

A Choral Performance Work

Ad Sanctos

A Preliminary Report from a Book of Research

Translating Translating Apollinaire

Cold Mountain

Le chien bleu

The Martyrology, Book V, Chain 8 : Draft, March 10

Draft, March 10/11 1979

The Martyrology, Book V, Chain 8

CURVD H & Z (Firm)

The Martyrology, Book V, Chain 10

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 he? Is he a poet? Is he a hero? Is he the bearer of heretofore important and unknown knowledge about the world? 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 shows Nichol working through some of the clichZs inherant 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 considerations for poets and their approach to craft. Originally published in 1970 as a mimeo production by bill bissett's seminal blewointment press (the same year that Michael Ondaatje issued his documentary on Nichol titled The Sons of Captain Poetry), smatterings of The Captain Poetry Poems have appeared over the years but never in their entirety. Now, in "official book form" for the first time, these poems will at last be available to scholars, poets, and other fine human beings. With an introduction by bill bissett and an afterword by George Bowering.

The Captain Poetry Poems Complete

Journal

B. P. Nichol

Books

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