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bpNichol, 1944-1988

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1944 September 30 - 1988 September 25

Parallel Names

  • Nichol, BP

Nationality

Candian

Found in 325 Collections and/or Records:

Selected Organs: Parts of an Autobiography / Nichol, bp ; Kroetsch R., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-50285-71352
Scope and Contents

Selected Organs is a part of a larger autobiography entitled Organ Music. The basic idea of these prose pieces was to write an autobiography from a different direction concentrating on the parts of the body. All stories in this autobiography are true and told in a specific style borrowed from the oral story-telling methods of Nichol's grandmother. Nichol also drew the body part for each section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-22196-22618
Scope and Contents

Cover painting by bissett. Len Early wrote the introduction to this selection of bissett's poems from 1962-1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Selected Poems: Particular Accidents, 1980

 Item
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

Sense(d)/Visuals (1968-86) / Basmajian, Shaunt; Nichol bp; Gomringer E., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-22712-23147
Scope and Contents

All these works are catalogued individually. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Sensory Deprivation / Dream Poetics / Lopes, Damian ; UU D ; Nichol bp ; Bradley Df., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-37034-38874
Scope and Contents

Most of the pages in this book depict a visual or concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Sharp Facts: Some Selections from Translating Translating Apollinaire 26 / Nichol, bp., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-05561-5668
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1980

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

 Item
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

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

 Item
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

St. Art: The Visual Poetry of bpNichol / Nichol, bp ; Dutton P ; Caruso B ; McElroy G., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-43383-45445
Scope and Contents

This exhibition and catalogue were curated and written by Gil McElroy. The exhibition dealt with Nichol's early concrete and visual poetic works. Most of these works were done in the 1960's and early 1970's. He died at age 44 years in 1988. Paul Dutton and Barbara Caruso contribute essays on their collaborations with Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000