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The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive

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The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive is the official home of the Estate of bpNichol, a digital repository of thousands of pages of material. Explore bp's delightful and unique world of visual poetry, sound poetry, experimental writing, and so much more.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

You are invited and welcome to "The Leafless Page", a one-day symposium at TMU on Thursday 9 April. We will be launching the new bpNichol.ca Digital Archive and collectively beginning to imagine its future use to readers, teachers, students, and poets. Register here: bit.ly/4lO65y6

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The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive @bpnichol.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

"this is a love poem"

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The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive @bpnichol.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Delighted to share this Call for Papers: “the leafless page”: bpNichol and the (true, eventual) Digital Archive. Please consider sharing this CFP to all who might be interested. It would be wonderful to see you at the launch of the new digital archive and to think through its future together.

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Save the date! I will be hosting a one-day bpNichol symposium at Toronto Metropolitan University on Thursday 9 April 2026. Details to follow!! Possible, tentative name for the event: "the leafless book": A One-day Symposium Celebrating the Re-launch of bpNichol.ca

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It's #nationalpoetrymonth -- Download free PDFs of bpNichol's THE MARTYROLOGY Book 1&2 (bpnichol.ca/archive/docu...) Book 3&4 (bpnichol.ca/archive/docu...), Book 5 (bpnichol.ca/archive/docu...) and Book 6 (bpnichol.ca/archive/docu...) all courtesy @bpnichol.bsky.social

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The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive @bpnichol.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Here is the blues song that bpNichol's "Blues" responds to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHMj...

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Bessie Smith - Careless Love

YouTube video by Jazz Everyday!

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Excerpts from my book Some Lines of Poetry (co-edited with Derek Beaulieu) of bpNichol's notebook poems are NOW on display at the Hudson Amtrak Station in New York. @bpnichol.bsky.social

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The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive @bpnichol.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I forgot that Michael Ondaatje references bpNichol in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Billy reminisces, briefly, about a sojourn up to Canada, where he fell in love with the music of "Captain P—" (oetry). Of course, Billy the Kid loves bp's records.

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The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive @bpnichol.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

"bpNichol", an episode of the TV show Canadian Literature on TVO in 1984: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw2a...

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Canadian Literature (TVO 1984) bp Nichol

YouTube video by TV to VHS to MP4

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The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive @bpnichol.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"Between Poetry/Painting" a letter from Dom Sylvester Houédard to bpNichol 07/10/1965 on concrete poetry, Canada, and Marshall McLuhan. Available in the archive: bpnichol.ca/node/241/cit...

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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Friends, the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive is now on Bluesky... @bpnichol.bsky.social

bpnichol.ca

The Official bpNichol Archive

An ever-growing digital archive providing free public access to primary source material created by bpNichol.

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