bpNichol, 1944-1988
Dates
- Existence: 1944 September 30 - 1988 September 25
Parallel Names
- Nichol, BP
Nationality
Candian
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Berkeley Horse, The: Ruth. No.43/Jan / bp Nichol ; McCaffery S., 1993
Produced by David UU. This poem was first published as Luv 5, in 1967 by Fleye Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[bp Nichol Lane] / Nichol, bp., 1994
Documents a street in Toronto named after bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Catalogue of the Pataphysical Hardware Company / Nichol, bp; Jarry A., 1986
Unable to ascertain whether this work was ever published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Curvd H&Z: Ephemera. No.296/Nov / bp Nichol., 1984
Also designated Sticky Lights #4. This broadside is an announcement for a poetry reading by bp Nichol at Nicky Drumbolis' bookshop, Letters, on Nov. 22, 1984. The silkscreen print that is collaged onto the broadside is is a translation of Basho's "frog." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Curvd H&Z: The Langwedge. No.310/Mar / bp Nichol., 1985
This is a reprint of a work originally issued as Ganglia Press Tonto Or series No.5, 1966 in an edition of 20 copies. A copy from the original run is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Grease Ball Comics. No.1 / bp Nichol., 1972
Gronk Random Number Series: Underwhich Check List 1978-1984. No.1 / bp Nichol., 1984
[Letter to David W Harris aka David UU 25 ii 68] / Valoch, Jiri; Nichol bp; Malina J., 1968
Valoch indicates that he is sending books to David UU in exchange for Canadian Avant Garde poetry books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Letter to David W Harris aka David UU 31 vii 71] / Valoch, Jiri; Nichol bp., 1971
Valoch mentions materials that he is sending for his exhibition, 'microproseplus' and method of payment, i.e., prefers books to money. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Letter to David W. Harris] / Bory, Jean-Francois; Harris DW; Sohm H; Nichol bp., 1967
Letter concerns seeking poems in letraset; J. Bory's assistance to D. Harris with "Spanish Fleye;" and exhibition being organized in Spain by Ignacio Gomez DeLiano. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
List #8: rubber stamped / Room 3o2 Books ; Ball N ; Bennett JM ; curry jw ; Laba M ; O'Sullivan J ; Smith G ; Evason G ; Nichol bp ; Smith G., 1993
This catalogue lists eight rubberstamped works for sale; each citation is rubberstamped on a separate page. The front and back covers were designed by jw curry. Both inside covers are rubberstamped with texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
pauses to talk: 17 October 2006: a retrospective invitation / curry, jw ; Books, Jennifer ; Nichol bp ; Baker C ; Barlow J., 2007
This is a digression that took place from curry's reading of bp Nichol's the martyrology conducted with Jennifer Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pushing the Boundaries / bp Nichol; Brian Nash; jw curry; E Nichol; P Dutton; W Maki; F Wah; S McCaffery; R Barreto-Rivera., 1998
This is a posthumous documentary film of bp Nichol's life and work including several interviews of his poet friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pushing the Boundaries / bp Nichol; Brian Nash; jw curry; E Nichol; P Dutton; W Maki; F Wah; S McCaffery; R Barreto-Rivera., 1998
This is a posthumous documentary film of bp Nichol's life and work including several interviews of his poet friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book Machine, 1992
Steve McCaffery edited and wrote the introductory essay for this book that consists of the collected research reports of the Toronto Research Group (TRG) 1973-1992. There is a discussion of the experimental fiction of Steve Katz, Raymond Federman, Madeline Gins, Scott Symons, and B.S. Johnson on pages 79-88. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Sharp Facts: Some Selections from Translating Translating Apollinaire 26 / Nichol, bp., 1980
Nichol demonstrates "copying machine disintegrative tendencies" by repeatedly putting the same text through four different photocopying machines. The text breaks down until it gradually disappears, so that "the machine is the message." The process is the same as that employed by Emmett Williams in a series of poems that are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Sound Poetry - A Catalogue: Eleventh International Sound Poetry Festival, 1978
Special Collections / Anonymous ; Pound E ; Olson C ; McClure M ; Gilbert G ; Nichol bp ; Blake W., 1996
Thumbprints / Fetherling, Douglas, editor ; Nichol bp ; bissett b ; Atwood M ; Ball N ; Souster R ; Garnet E ; Colombo JR., 1969
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.