Bøger af bp Nichol

Features poetry that's a lot like art - its meaning comes from what it looks like instead of the order of the words. This work presents concrete poetry, that is playful, sincere, explorative, intelligent, and human. It also presents visual puns and word puzzles.

'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poet's instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poet's quest for insight into himself and his writing through scrupulous attention to the messages hidden in the morphology of his own speech.' - Frank Davey

'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poet’s instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poet’s quest for insight into himself and his writing through scrupulous attention to the messages hidden in the morphology of his own speech.’ – Frank Davey

The long-lost fiction of avant-garde hero bpNichol collected into one groundbreaking volume.

Poetry. Edited by Stephen Cain. While bpNichol (1944-1988) has attained iconic status in Canadian literature in recent years, particularly through his lifelong poem THE MARTYROLOGY, and his work in visual and sound poetry, there are numerous early "fugitive" sequences that are often referred to in critical studies, but are long out of print and only available in library special collections or in the hands of rare book collectors. BP: BEGINNINGS brings together these pre-Martyrology materials in one comprehensive collection, including such key texts as Nichol's first chapbooks Beach Head and Cycles Etc., the minimal lyric sequences The Other Side of the Room and The Journeying and the Returns, and various concrete and sound-texts such as Lament, The Year of the Frog and Ballads of the Restless Are. These collected sequences show nichol developing his talents in both visual poetry and lyricism, pointing the way towards the union of the two forms in the later MARTYROLOGY. Combined with THE CAPTAIN POETRY POEMS COMPLETE (published by BookThug in 2011), BP: BEGINNINGS now makes all of Nichol's major poetry sequences available to both the avid nichol specialists and to aficionados of innovative poetry everywhere.

'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poets instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poets quest for insight into himself and his writing through scrupulous attention to the messages hidden in the morphology of his own speech. Frank Davey

'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poets instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poets quest for insight into himself and his writing through scrupulous attention to the messages hidden in the morphology of his own speech. Frank Davey

'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poets instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poets quest for insight into himself and his writing through scrupulous attention to the messages hidden in the morphology of his own speech. Frank Davey

'All of Nichols work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poets instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poets quest for insight into himself and his writing through scrupulous attention to the messages hidden in the morphology of his own speech. Frank Davey

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

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

a book of variations returns to print three seminal texts by one of the twentieth century's most inventive poets.

bpNichol was one of Canada's most innovative, eclectic, entertaining and enigmatic poets, making startling interventions in the development of poetry and influencing both his own and subsequent generations of writers. This book presents key texts from the broad spectrum of Nichol's work, including both classic favorites and more obscure treasures.