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bill bissett

bill bissett
originalee from lunaria ovr 300 yeers ago in lunarian time
sent by shuttul thru halifax nova scotia originalee wantid 2
b dansr n figur skatr became a poet n paintr in my longings
after 12 operaysyuns reelee preventid me from following th
inishul direksyuns
?bill bissett
bill bissett garnered international attention in the 1960s as a pre-eminent figure of the counterculture movement in Canada and the United Kingdom. In 1964, he founded blewointment press, which published the works of bpNichol and Steve McCaffery, among others.
bissett’s charged readings, which never fail to amaze his audiences, incorporate sound poetry, chanting and singing, the verve of which is only matched by his prolific writing career?more than seventy books of bissett’s poetry have been published.
A pioneer of sound, visual and performance poetry?eschewing the artificial hierarchies of meaning and the privileging of things (?proper” nouns) over actions imposed on language by capital letters; the metric limitations imposed on the possibilities of expression by punctuation; and the illusion of formal transparency imposed on the written word by standard (rather than phonetic) spelling?bissett composes his poems as scripts for pure performance and has consistently worked to extend the boundaries of language and visual image, honing a synthesis of the two in the medium of concrete poetry.
Whether paying tribute to his hometown lunaria or exercising his native tongue dissent, bissett continues to dance upon upon the cutting edge of poetics and performance works.
bill bissett was recently a featured poet on the Heart of a Poet series, produced in conjunction with Bravo! TV.
Among bissett’s many awards are The George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award (2007); BC Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Prize (2003) peter among th towring boxes / text bites; BC Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Prize (1993) inkorrect thots.

Books by bill bissett

its th sailors life / still in treetment

meditaysyuns from gold mountain

by (author) bill bissett

I Want to Tell You Love

A Critical Edition

edited by Eric Schmaltz & Christopher Doody
by (author) bill bissett & Milton Acorn

breth

th treez uv lunaria: selektid rare n nu pomes n drawings, 1957–2019

by (author) bill bissett

th book

by (author) bill bissett

RUSH

what fukan theory; a study uv language

by (author) bill bissett
edited by derek beaulieu & Gregory Betts

hungree throat

a novel in meditaysyun

by (author) bill bissett

novel

by (author) bill bissett

time

by (author) bill bissett

The Captain Poetry Poems

by (author) bp Nichol
introduction by bill bissett, derek beaulieu & Gregory Betts

griddle talk

a yeer uv bill n carol dewing brunch

by (author) Carol Malyon & bill bissett

sublingual

by (author) bill bissett

ths is erth thees ar peopul

by (author) bill bissett

northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing

by (author) bill bissett

narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane

by (author) bill bissett

a name is a label

by (author) Irene June Karasick
illustrated by bill bissett

peter among th towring boxes / text bites

by (author) bill bissett

b leev abul char ak trs

by (author) bill bissett

scars on th seehors

by (author) bill bissett

loving without being vulnrabul

by (author) bill bissett

th influenza uv logik

by (author) bill bissett

th last photo uv th human soul

by (author) bill bissett

inkorrect thots

by (author) bill bissett

Selected Poems

Beyond Even Faithful Legends

by (author) bill bissett