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bp Nichol

Wayne Clifford came to Grand Manan, New Brunswick as a permanent resident in 2007 after thirty-five years of college teaching. A former resident of Kingston, Ontario and Halifax, Nova Scotia, he and his wife, M.J. Edwards, have built a house at Rocky Corner on the Whistle Road, where she practices as an artist, and he writes more or less full-time. Author of more than a dozen poetry books and chapbooks, Wayne is also an amateur musician, artist, and award-winning designer. He holds a BA from the University of Toronto, and an MA and MFA from the prestigious international Writers' Workshop at The University of Iowa, but appreciates that his adopted home has much to teach him.

bpNichol (Barrie Phillip Nichol) was born September 30, 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His writing is, by definition, engaged with what he called "borderblur": in his lifetime he wrote (somewhere between) poetry, novels, short fiction, children's books, musical scores, comic book art, collage/assemblage, and computer texts. Nichol was also an inveterate collaborator, working with the sound poetry ensemble The Four Horsemen (whose members were Nichol, Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and Steve McCaffery); Steve McCaffery as part of the Toronto Research Group (TRG); the visual artist Barbara Caruso; and countless other writers. In the mid 1980s bpNichol became a successful writer for the children's television show Fraggle Rock, produced by Jim Henson. His early work in sound was documented in Michael Ondaatje's film Sons of Captain Poetry. A second film has been made on Nichol, bp: pushing the boundaries, directed by Brian Nash; he also appears in Ron Mann's film Poetry in Motion. bpNichol died in Toronto, Ontario on September 25, 1988.

Books by bp Nichol

Some Lines of Poetry

From the Notebooks of bpNichol

by (author) bp Nichol
edited by Derek Beaulieu & Gregory Betts

Nights on Prose Mountain

by (author) bp Nichol
edited by Derek Beaulieu

bp: beginnings

by (author) bp Nichol
edited by Stephen Cain

Theseus

A Collaboration

by (author) bp Nichol & Wayne Clifford

a book of variations

love - zygal - art facts

by (author) bp Nichol
edited by Stephen Voyce

organ music

parts of an autobiography

by (author) bp Nichol

Once

A Lullaby

by (author) bp Nichol

The Captain Poetry Poems

by (author) bp Nichol
introduction by bill bissett, Derek Beaulieu & Gregory Betts

The Alphabet Game

A bpNichol Reader

by (author) bp Nichol
edited by Lori Emerson & Darren Wershler-Henry

Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer

by (author) bp Nichol

Meanwhile

The Critical Writings of bpNichol

by (author) bp Nichol
edited by Roy Miki

Zygal

A Book of Mysteries and Translations

by (author) bp Nichol

Martyrology Book 6

by (author) bp Nichol

Martyrology Books 1 & 2

by (author) bp Nichol

Ad Sanctos

The Martyrology Book 9

by (author) bp Nichol

Martyrology Books 3 & 4

by (author) bp Nichol

Martyrology Book 5

by (author) bp Nichol

Gifts: The Martyrology Book(s) 7 &

The Martyrology Book(s) 7 &

by (author) bp Nichol

Gifts: The Martyrology Book(s) 7 &

The Martyrology Book(s) 7 & 8

by (author) bp Nichol

Truth

A Book of Fictions

by (author) bp Nichol

Rational Geomancy

The Kids of the Book-Machine, The Collected Research Reports of the Toronto Research Group 1973-1982

introduction by Steve McCaffery
by (author) bp Nichol

bpNichol Comics

by (author) bp Nichol
edited by Carl Peters

Selected Writing

As Elected

by (author) bp Nichol