Monday, June 27, 2022

new from above/ground press: Reading The Great Classics Of Canlit through Book 5 of bpNichol’s The Martyrology, by Grant Wilkins

Reading The Great Classics Of Canlit through Book 5 of bpNichol’s The Martyrology
Grant Wilkins
$5

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
June 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy


This poem was created by a loose diastic reading-through of Book 5 of bpNichol’s The Martyrology (Coach House Press, 1982).

Grant Wilkins is a printer, papermaker and occasional poet from Ottawa who has made a practice of doing strange things to other people’s words. He has degrees in History & Classical Civilization and in English, and he likes ink, metal, paper, letters, sounds and words, and combinations thereof. A second above/ground press title is forthcoming.

above/ground press reprinted bpNichol's KON 66 & 67 (for jiri valoch in January 2002 and THE TRUE EVENTUAL STORY OF BILLY THE KID, with an afterward by carl peters, in December 2005.

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