Some Lines of Poetry: From the Notebooks of Bpnichol by Bpnichol

Some Lines of Poetry: From the Notebooks of Bpnichol

CBC BOOKS "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024"For bpNichol's 80th birthday, a selection of...
$38.01 SGD
$38.01 SGD
SKU: 9781552454909
Product Type: Books
Please hurry! Only 54 left in stock
Author: Bpnichol
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: $38.01
10 customers are viewing this product
Some Lines of Poetry: From the Notebooks of Bpnichol by Bpnichol

Some Lines of Poetry: From the Notebooks of Bpnichol

$38.01

Some Lines of Poetry: From the Notebooks of Bpnichol

$38.01
Author: Bpnichol
Format: Paperback
Language: English

CBC BOOKS "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024"

For bpNichol's 80th birthday, a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks, an astounding trove of never-before-seen work.


One of Canada's most beloved poets, bpNichol (1944-1988), left a huge legacy of poetry, prose, scripts, comics, and playful interrogation of language after his untimely passing in 1988. In celebration of what would have been Nichol's eightieth birthday, Some Lines of Poetry gathers excerpts from Nichol's journals across the 1980s to give a unique perspective on craft, process, and a writer's life. Featuring works in progress, insight into Nichol's thinking, previously unpublished prose and lyric, visual, and sound poems, Some Lines of Poetry documents Nichol's "apprenticeship to language" and his playful daily exploration of the limits of writing.


Lovingly edited by noted poet-scholars Derek Beaulieu and Gregory Betts, who provide an afterword contextualizing Nichol's practice, Some Lines of Poetry is a map of hidden corners, a guidebook to poetic play, and a tribute to Nichol's ongoing influence.

"No other writer of our time and place was so diverse, attempted so much, and never lost sight of his intent." - Michael Ondaatje



Author: Bpnichol
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 10/01/2024
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781552454909

About the Author

bpNichol (1944-1988) created a vast and intricate body of work that stretches from Fraggle Rock and children's books to comic books and operas, from delicate visual poems to The Martyrology, a nine-volume, life-long epic. Nichol was awarded the Governor General's Award in 1970 and spent decades exploring the 'borderblur' between image and text, sound, prose, and poetry, including some of the world's first computer-animated poems. In a career known for collaboration and innovation, bpNichol's writing continues to be generous and generative. Nichol's The Martyrology Books, Ad Sanctos, zygal: a book of Mysteries and Translations, Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Alphabet Game, a book of variations: love - zygal - art facts, and Nights on Prose Mountain: The Fiction of bpNichol all remain in print from Coach House Books.


Derek Beaulieu is the author/editor of over twenty-five collections of poetry, prose, and criticism. His most recent volume of conceptual prose, Silence: Lectures and Writings, was published by Sweden's Timglaset Editions, his most recent volume of poetry, Surface Tension, was published by Coach House Books. Beaulieu has won multiple local and national awards for his teaching and dedication to students, the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for this dedication to Albertan literature and is the only graduate from the University of Calgary's Department of English to receive the Faculty of Arts 'Celebrated Alumni Award.' Beaulieu holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Roehampton University, has served as Poet Laureate of both Calgary and Banff, and the Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.


Gregory Betts is the author of ten books of poetry, two monographs on the Canadian avant-garde (including Finding Nothing: The Vangardes 1959-1975) and editor of ten collections of, or on, Canadian experimental writing. He is a professor at Brock University and curator of the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive. His most recent book is The Fabuous Op, a collection of poetry co-written with Gary Barwin, was published by Ireland's Beir Bua Press.


Returns Policy

You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).

You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).

If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.

Shipping

We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.

When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.

Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.

Related Products

Recently Viewed Products