CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5649
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
BpNichol: manuscripts, part 1 of 2 #398
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Interview
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Nichol, B. P.
Dates:
1944-1988
Role:
"Speaker"
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Track Configuration:
2 track
Playback Mode:
Stereo
Sound Quality:
Poor
Physical Condition:
Good
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:54
Size:
29.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:04
Size:
28.9 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 004 Talking about The Martyrology with Linda McCartney (?)
St. – words becoming Saints
Scraptures as a generative work
034 Living for a form not based on stylistic unity
069 For Jesus Lunatic – inward search for an emotionally accurate picture
078 Book Three of The Martyrology – new formal developments
093 Monotones as prelude to Martyrology
The saints subsumed in Book Three become an energy, rather than isolate
125 The Plunket Papers and Billy the Kid
144 Captain Poetry. Forming a kind of trilogy with The Plunket Papers and Billy the Kid. “The book of the dead”
161 Love : A Book of Remembrances
211 Bp’s publication plans – The Plunket poems
Michael Ondaatje in the Plunket Papers, and Captain Poetry in Ondaatje’s Collected Works of Billy the Kid
253 Captain Poetry in Ganglia issue
283 The Aleph Bet Book
Compositions occurring in units
323 The Other Side of the Room – links to Plunket
A book about isolation
411 Ends
Two 000 Long poem called “the Journey,” written 62, partly published in anthology “Thumbprints”
A journey from west to east
Journey and the Returns – east to west
039 Novels – For Jesus Lunatic. Discarded novel, fall 1967. Began The Martyrology 1967, when he realized the novel was not the right form
095 Still water. Bp talking about a letter to Mary-Ellen Solte, talking about his writing.
Original title of Still Water – The Chinese poems
134 Using single edition books as a way of finding patterns in poetry
141 Concrete poetry, typewriter, Xeroxing, handwriting shaped poems
219 Comic strips – in Scraptures, and Andy
Overlap between Concrete and Comic strips
260 Sound poetry – the beginning
280 Connection with Bissett
308 Gertrude Stein. European market, connection with Margaret Avison
336 The Dream series – long concrete poem using “pivotal rhythm”
385 The sonnet form as a natural flow in Italian. Rhyme in language
407 Ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
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