bpNichol's The Martyrology is a long poem begun in 1967 and continuing until Nichol's death in 1988. It includes Books 1 & 2 (1972), Books 3 &4 (1976), Book 5 (1982), Book 6 (1987), gifts: Books 7 & (1990), and Ad Sanctos: Book 9 (1992). Ad Sanctos is a piece of music theatre written with composer Howard Gerhard.
bpNichol's The Martyrology is a long poem begun in 1967 and continuing until Nichol's death in 1988. It includes Books 1 & 2 (1972), Books 3 & 4 (1976), Book 5 (1982), Book 6 Books (1992), gifts: Book(s) 7 & (1990), and As Sanctos: Book 9 (1992). The text in this volume is a facsimile, with minor corrections, of the 1990 edition of Gifts.
My Adventures To & Fro Down Under the Town of Plunkett: By Captain M.L. Poetry as told to his alter ego Nichol St. Nichol
A Christmas Spectac
hand-writ Christ's Mass 1968 for MAL + for JUDY
love from beep
a MINNIE-MOO-HA-HA special
Title Nights on prose mountain; some scraptures sequences.
Publication Area Toronto, Ganglia Press, 1969.
8 ½ x 11 in.; side-stapled on white paper.
This scan was generously made possible by the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo.
Title Scraptures, tenth sequence / bpNichol.
Publication Area [Toronto : s.n., 1967?]
Poems rubber-stamped in black on tan leaves, 6 x 8 ½ in.; top leaf deckle-edged on bottom; single folded sheet cover, 6 ½ x 10 in., printed in black on yellow background.
This scan was generously made possible by the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo.
"Scraptures: 11th Sequence" was published as grOnk 8 in August 1967. grOnk was published monthly and was edited by bpNichol, David Aylward, and David W. Harris.
Title Scraptures : sequence eleven.
Publication Area [Toronto : Gronk, 1967]
8 ½ x 11 in.; side-stapled on white paper.
This scan was generously made possible by the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo.
Title Scraptures : third sequence / bpNichol
Publication Area Toronto, Ont. : Ganglia, 1966.
10 ½ x 14 cm.; paperbound in white, saddle-stapled; printed and illustrated in black; some light yellow pages.
This scan was generously made possible by the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo.
Title Scraptures : basic sequences / bpNichol.
Publication Area Toronto [Ont.] : Massassauga Editions, c1973.
11 ½ x 14 ½ cm.; interior pages saddle-stapled on white paper, bound in deep purple-red paper wrappers; printed and illustrated in black.
Cover by bill bissett.
This scan was generously made possible by the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo.
Title Scraptures : fourth sequence / bpNichol.
Publication Area Niagara Falls, N.Y. : Press Today Niagara, [1979?]
14 x 21 ½ cm.; paperbound in light yellow-orange; printed in black; saddle-stapled.
This scan was generously made possible by the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo.
Title Scraptures : second sequence / bpNichol ;
cover drawing Bill Bissett.
Publication Area Toronto [Ont.] : Ganglia, [1965]
5 ½ x 8 ½ in.; paperbound in white, saddle-stapled; printed and illustrated in black.
This scan was generously made possible by the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo.
Title The year of the frog : a study of the frog
from Scraptures : ninth sequence / bpNichol.
Publication Area Toronto [Ont.] : Ganglia Press, 1967.
5 ½ x 8 ½ in.; paperbound loose in white; printed and illustrated in black.
Twelve years in the Making! Featuring a cast of thousands! Starring the letter H & introducing Probable Systems, Negatives, & The Actual Life of Language! Your heart will pound as you see H's turn into I's before your very own. You'll thrill as words fall apart only to create other words. You'll gasp as bpNichol collaborates with the dead. You'll shake your head in disbelief as he walks the line between fact & fiction one step beyond into the twilight zone of ''pataphysics.