bp: beginnings

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, 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.

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“Thanks to Stephen Cain and Book*hug, readers and scholars might possibly, for the first time, really be able to dig into a period of Nichol’s work that hasn’t really been explored properly.” —rob mclennan

“There’s so much in bp: beginnings to revisit with pleasure or to discover, oh lucky readers, for the first time. A necessary book.” — Douglas Barbour


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Dimensions:

200 Pages
8.00in * 6.10in * .40in
.75lb
340.00gr

Published:

April 15, 2014

Publisher:

Book*hug Press

ISBN:

9781771660358

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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