Some Lines of Poetry by bpNichol Paperback Book 9781552454909

CBC BOOKSamp160amp34CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024amp34For bpNichols 80th birthday a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks an astounding trove of neverbeforeseen workamp10One of Canadaamp8217s most beloved poets bpNichol 19441988 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 Nicholamp8217s eightieth birthday Some Lines of Poetry gathers excerpts from Nicholamp8217s journals across the 1980s to give a unique perspective on craft process and a writeramp8217s life Featuring works in progress insight into Nicholamp8217s thinking previously unpublished prose and lyric visual and sound poems Some Lines of Poetry documents Nicholamp8217s quotapprenticeship to languagequot and his playful daily exploration of the limits of writingamp10Lovingly edited by noted poetscholars Derek Beaulieu and Gregory Betts who provide an afterword contextualizing Nicholamp8217s practice Some Lines of Poetry is a map of hidden corners a guidebook to poetic play and a tribute to Nicholamp8217s ongoing influenceamp34No other writer of our time and place was so...