Title: Aka bpNichol : a preliminary biography /
Authors: Davey, Frank, 1940-
Publisher: ECW Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Nichol, B. P.,; Nichol, B. P.,; Poets, Canadian (English) Biography.; Poètes canadiens-anglais Biographies.
Abstract: "Aka bpNichol is the biography of the major Canadian poet bpNichol, who was a practising lay psychoanalyst and vice-president of one of the largest and longest-lasting communes in North America for more than a decade. Though he died at the young age of 44, Barrie Nichol was internationally influential as a visual poet and sound poet. Nichol authored the multi-volume The Martyrology, one of the most substantial long poems of the 20th century; four novels; two musical comedies; six children's books; hundreds of hand-drawn visual poems; and 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.
Contents: 1. Birth, death, and life -- 2. H a Section -- 3. Port Arthur -- 4. Winnipeg -- 5. Vancouver -- 6. Lea or Dace -- 7. Becoming bp -- 8. Ideopoet -- 9.Captain Poetry -- 10. Psychotherapy poetics -- 11. Beginning the Mortyrology -- 12. Friends much more than footnotes -- 13. Meanings of crocuses -- 14. Expository turns -- 15. Me & we -- 16. Working together -- 17. Russian roulette -- 18. Strange years -- 19. Blown away -- 20. Eric Von Daniken meets Kurt Schwitters -- 21. Unable to rest -- 22. Waste of my words -- 23. Unbound -- 24. Afterlife of bpNichol.