bp Nichol
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 toThe 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...
