Jérôme Melançon
$6
bp leaves
no doubt
no doubt
sounds more alive than paper
in through between bo
dy parts bodies bo
th sets of eyes voices
locational
definational
def
ying any ki
nd of mixing it so
unds like it so
unds like so
unds so
unding
nothing pure or empty
time is no
t mine here i am ca
ugh
t in his
have to wai
t for him his wai
ling his wa
ndering re
petit
ive in
cant (at)
ing
self distorting
wait as he stretches sounds
*
These sections of the poem “speechletting” are a response to bpNichol’s recorded sound poems. It disassembles, reflects upon, and reincorporates elements of Nichol’s poems, at least as I heard them. Many are available on the bpNichol Digital Archive (bpnichol.ca). The image that appears on the cover is a still of a video that can be found online titled “My concern...” My thanks to Gregory Betts and the team at the bpNichol Digital Archive for giving us that endlessly generous arrangement of alphabets. And to rob mclennan for the continuing support. And to my family for sitting through me listening to these sound poems and working out new ones at the kitchen table.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
June 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Jérôme Melançon writes and teaches and writes and lives in oskana kâ-asastêki / Regina, SK. His fourth collection, Prairial·es, is now out with Prise de parole. Let us not forget his three chapbooks with above/ground press: Bridges Under the Water (2023), Tomorrow’s Going to Be Bright (2022), and Coup (2020), his occasional translations, and his book of philosophy, La politique dans l’adversité (Metispresses, 2018). He has also edited books and journal issues, and keeps publishing academic articles that sometimes have to do with some of this. He is on various social media under variations of @lethejerome, notably at bsky.social.
This is his fourth chapbook with above/ground press.
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