The Martyrology Books 1 & 2
"Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches." Gertrude Stein of those saints we know the listing follows saint orm married saint rain gave birth to saint iff and saint ave this is the oldest family saint iff married saint rive gave birth to saint reat who married saint agnes gave birth to saint rand saint ave married saint raits gave birth to saint ranglehold who did not marry of the other families these we mention saint ill married saint ove gave birth to saint and & saint rike saint and did not …
The Martyrology Books 3 & 4
the martyrology carrots onions celery potatoes cheddar cheese beef For stock salt pepper garlic windy day keep the door open kitchen cool core & steam the cabbages peel the leaves rice & vegetables for the hollopchis sit around the table talk of nothing good feeling for the job that's done walk the fields the wind blows blue sky above you always pray that will be so This page intentionally left blank the martyrology BOOkS 3&4 Bp nichol The Coach House Press Toronto This page intentionally left blank THE …
The Martyrology Book 5
blue bluer bloor This page intentionally left blank the martyrology This page intentionally left blank 'In so moche that in my dayes happened that certayn marchauntes were in a shippe in tamyse, for to have scyled over the sea into zelande, and for lack of wynde, thei taryed atte forlond, and wente to lande for to refreshe them. And one of theym named Sheffelde, a mercer, came in-to an hows and axed for mete, and specyally he axed after egges. And the goode wyf answerede that she could speke no frenshe. …
The Martyrology Book 6
i-a counting. This page intentionally left blank the rruRtyRoloqy Book 6 Books 1978-1985 Bp nichol The Coach House Press Toronto copyright © bpNichol, 1987 ISBN 0-88910-319-4 'One's pestered in these days by so many 'ologies We thought we would fain see the tale of our foes; A niche of your own in the new Martyrologies You'd earn if you'd only go halves in our woes.1 author unknown - quoted in C.C.Bombaugh's Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature 'If I don't learn to shut my mouth I'll soon go to …
Ad sanctos: The Martyrology, Book 9
AD SANCTOS This page intentionally left blank AD SANCTOS a choral performance work bpNichol/words Howard Gerhard/music The Martyrology Book 9 1986-87 Coach House Press Toronto Text © 1993 the Estate of bpNichol Music © 1993 Howard Gerhard Published with the assistance of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Department of Communications. The writing of Ad Sanctos was made possible by a grant from the Music Theatre Development Program of the Ontario Arts Council. Canadian Cataloguing in …
Gifts: The Martyrology book(s) 7 &
"wHAT i HAVE WRITEN HAS NO PLAN, OR AT LAEST IS NOTPLANNED..iF IT HAS A T SHAPE IT IS CHIFLY THAT IT RETURNS TO ITS BEGINING, iT HAS THEMES AND AwHAT i HAVE WRITEN HAS NO PLAN, OR AT LAEST IS NOTPLANNED. iF IT HAS A SHPE theme even if it wanders far. If it has a unity it is that what goes before conditions what comes after and vice versa." from The Anathemata by David Jones "If we don't garden the tongue, they'll blacktop it over." Gerry Gilbert, in a letter "And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, …
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from The Chronicle of Knarn i've looked across the stars to find your eyes they aren’t there where do you hide when the sun goes nova? i think it’s over somewhere a poem dies inside i hide my fears like bits of broken china mother brought from earth milleniums ago i don’t know where the rim ends to look over into the great rift i only know i drift without you into a blue that is not there tangled in the memory of your …
As Elected: Selected Writing 1962-1979
A s · Elected el ec te ri ti n N ic ho l I PS 8527 132 A6 1980 • • • • As Elected Selected Writing 1962-1979 • , • • , • • • • • \ copyrig ht © 1980 bpNicho l Introduc tion copyrig ht © 1980 Jack David published with assistance from the Canada Council • • • • Talon books 201101 9 East Cordova Vancouver British Columbia V6A 1MB Canada Talon books P. 0. Box 42720 Los Angeles California 90042 U.S.A. This book was typeset at the Coach House Press, designed by bpNicho l and Nel~on Adams and printed by Friesen …
Beach Head
•• .. LI .l\RY. o~r -.:.\il VERSI*t.t v ,-.-- :n 0 ocs ·r - ,.. • • ' I • • r -- - I ' I 'I l __________ :__. .__ BEACH HEAD by b p Nichol transitions 66 & 67 Runclble Spoon Sacramento, Gallfornla copyright 1970 hy hp r·JI cho I 0 i-~10 r PUt 'C IOLE SPOOtJ books by bp Nichol in c lude: SCRA?TURES FC'URTH SEQUENCE (o.p) BA LLADS OF THC RESTLESS ARE covE: r by D. r. V/agnc r SEA • - a letter In january to wayne & julie clifford * having risen fnom the bath old Images return sea moving fnto me only the echos …
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the city gleams in afternoon suns. the aluminum walls of the stellar bank catch the strange distorted faces of the inter-galactic crowds. im holding my hat in my hand standing awkwardly at the entrance to their shrine wishing i were near you. were they like us? i don’t know. how did they die & how did the legend grow? (a long time ago i thot i knew how this poem would go, how the figures of the saints would emerge. now it’s covered over by my urge to write you what lines i can. the sun is dying. i’ve heard …