The bpNichol.ca Digital Archive

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.

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

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

YouTube video by Jazz Everyday! Bessie Smith - Careless Love

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

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

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.

YouTube video by TV to VHS to MP4 Canadian Literature (TVO 1984) bp Nichol

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

"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...

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