The Captain Poetry Poems

About bill bissettbp Nichol

bpNICHOL (Barrie Phillip Nichol) was born September 30 1944 in Vancouver British Columbia. His writing is by definition engaged with what he called 'borderblur': in his lifetime he wrote (somewhere between) poetry novels short fiction children's books musical scores comic book art collage/assemblage and computer texts. Nichol was also an inveterate collaborator working with the sound poetry ensemble The Four Horsemen (whose members were Nichol Rafael Barreto-Rivera Paul Dutton and Steve McCaffery); Steve McCaffery as part of the Toronto Research Group (TRG); the visual artist Barbara Caruso; and countless other writers. In the mid-1980s bpNichol became a successful writer for the children's television show Fraggle Rock produced by Jim Henson. His early work in sound was documented in Michael Ondaatje's film Sons of Captain Poetry. A second film has been made on Nichol bp: pushing the boundaries directed by Brian Nash; he also appears in Ron Mann's film Poetry in Motion. bpNichol died in Toronto Ontario on September 25 1988. BILL BISSETT opened Canadian poetry to postmodernism and from there proceeded in every direction all at once. Since his invention of the blewointment press in 1963 bissett has worked diligently to explode all boundaries of author text and context radically disrupting static and disciplinary modes of art making. Read taught studied and imitated all around the world he now lives in Toronto painting and writing somewhere between painting and poetry. DEREK BEAULIEU is the author of multiple books of poetry and conceptual fiction editor of the acclaimed small presses housepress and No Press and co-editor of Writing Surfaces: the Selected Fiction of John Riddell. He is an instructor at Mount Royal University and the Alberta College of Art + Design. GREGORY BETTS is a poet editor essayist and teacher originally from Vancouver and Toronto. Since his first published poem an anagrammatical translation of a short poem by bpNichol Betts's work has consistently troubled individual authorship through such mechanisms as anagrams collaboration found-texts and response-text writing. Betts currently lives in St. Catharines where he edits PRECIPICe magazine curates the Grey Borders Reading Series and teaches Avant-Garde and Canadian Literature at Brock University.