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Each year a prize of two thousand dollars is offered for the best poetry chap-book in English ublished in Canada.

The chap-book should be between 10 and 48 pages long.

This twenty-fourth annual award is sponsored by The Phoenix Community Works Foundation.

The poet or publisher should submit three copies (not returnable) and a brief curriculum vitae.

Please make sure to include your phone number and email address and send to:

The bpNichol Chap-Book Award
c/o Philip McKenna
316 Dupont Street
Toronto, Ontario M5R 1V9
Entries close March 31st, 2010

Conrad DiDiodato has recently written a poetic 'paratext' on bpNichol's "The Martyrology: Books 1 & 2". Using a single page from Gilles Deleuze-Felix Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus" as a palimpsest, he has composed a series of poetic reflections on a single line from Book 2: "saint of no-names" against both the text and illustration found on Deleuze-Guattari's page.

We've just added images of the program for the Vivaxis production of bpNichol's musical comedy "Group." The first is the cover, and the second is the interior with notes about the production and the list of songs. Most of the cast were professional actors who were part of the community. Mary Beth Hall was often on the CBC children's show "Mr Dressup," and John Pepper and Maggie Shaw were regulars at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Click on "Images" and enjoy!

Congratulations to Gary Barwin (Inverting the Deer) and Sandra Ridley (Lift: Ghazals for C., JackPine Press, Saskatoon, SK) - both are winners of the 2009 bpNichol Chapbook Award.

Please come to the awards ceremony for the 2009 winner of the bpNichol Chapbook Award! For more information on the award, please see the page for the bpNichol Chapbook Award.

Date: Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Location: Augusta House
152 Augusta Ave.2nd floor
(416) 977-8881

The second of three special issues of Open Letter is now available for purchase from Frank Davey. Please see the poster below for information on how to contact Davey and on the list of contributors.

bpNichol.ca has finally launched after years of planning and good intentions. If you read this message in time, you're encouraged to attend our launch event:

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Nicholback

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Supermarket
268 Augusta Avenue
Toronto, ON

Literary event at Supermarket celebrates three new pieces of Nicholmania from late Canadian author bpNichol