bpNichol (1944–1988) created a vast and intricate body of work that stretches from Fraggle Rock and children’s books to comic books and operas, from delicate visual poems to The Martyrology, a nine-volume, life-long epic. Nichol was awarded the Governor General’s Award in 1970 and spent decades exploring the ‘borderblur’ between image and text, sound, prose, and poetry, including some of the world’s first computer-animated poems. In a career known for collaboration and innovation, bpNichol’s writing continues to be generous and generative. Nichol’s The Martyrology Books,Ad Sanctos, zygal: a book of Mysteries and Translations, Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Alphabet Game, a book of variations: love – zygal – art facts, and Nights on Prose Mountain: The Fiction of bpNichol all remain in print from Coach House Books.
