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Barrie Phillip Nichol

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Barrie Phillip Nichol (30 September 1944 – 25 September 1988), known as bpNichol, was a Canadian poet, writer, sound poet, editor and grOnk/Ganglia Press publisher. [1]

43 relations: Anthology, Author editing, Babar (TV series), Bill Bissett, Blizzard Island, Canadians, Care Bears, Children's literature, Coach House Books, Collective, Composer, Concrete poetry, David UU, Dora Mavor Moore Award, Elizabeth Yake, Fiction, Fraggle Rock, Governor General's Awards, GrOnk, Jim Henson, John Beckwith (composer), Literary magazine, Lyric poetry, Mexico, Michael Ondaatje, Novel, Oakville, Ontario, Paul Dutton, Poet, Poetry, R. Murray Schafer, Ron Mann, Short story, Sound poetry, Steve McCaffery, Textuality, The Four Horsemen (poetry), The Raccoons, Toronto, Under the Umbrella Tree, Vancouver, Visual poetry, YouTube.

Anthology

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler.

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Author editing

An authors' editor is a language professional who works "with authors to make draft texts fit for purpose".

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Babar (TV series)

Babar is a Canadian/French animated television series produced in Toronto, Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company.

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Bill Bissett

Bill Bissett (born William Frederick Bissett, November 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet known for his unconventional style.

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Blizzard Island

Blizzard Island was a television show consisting of twelve episodes produced by CBC between 1987–1988.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Care Bears

The Care Bears are a group of multi-colored bear characters.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Coach House Books

Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario.

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Collective

A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together to achieve a common objective.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Concrete poetry

Concrete, pattern, or shape poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance.

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David UU

David UU (pronounced David W.), or David W. Harris, (1948–1994) is considered an accomplished concrete and experimental poet and an important small press publisher.

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Dora Mavor Moore Award

The Dora Mavor Moore Award (also known as the Dora Award) is an award presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts which honours theatre, dance, and opera productions in Toronto.

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Elizabeth Yake

Elizabeth Yake is a Canadian film producer, who is the founder and president of True West Films.

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Fiction

Fiction is any story or setting that is derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.

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Fraggle Rock

Fraggle Rock (also known as Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock or Fraggle Rock with Jim Henson's Muppets) is a children's puppet television series about interconnected societies of Muppet creatures, created by Jim Henson.

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Governor General's Awards

The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields.

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GrOnk

grOnk, or GRoNK, was a seminal Canadian literary magazine begun in 1967 by David Aylward, David W.Harris (later David UU; co-editor for the first series (8 issues, 1967), and editor of most of the 7th series (5 of 8 issues, 1971)), bpNichol & Rah Smith (i.e. Robert Hindley-Smith).

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Jim Henson

James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker who achieved international fame as the creator of the Muppets.

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John Beckwith (composer)

John Beckwith, (born March 9, 1927) is a Canadian composer, writer, pianist, teacher, and administrator.

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Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense.

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Lyric poetry

Lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Michael Ondaatje

Philip Michael Ondaatje, (born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Oakville, Ontario

Oakville is a suburban town in southern Ontario, located in Halton Region on Lake Ontario halfway between Toronto and Hamilton, and is part of the Greater Toronto Area, one of the most densely-populated areas of Canada.

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Paul Dutton

Paul Dutton (born in 1943) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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R. Murray Schafer

Raymond Murray Schafer, (born 18 July 1933) is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977).

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Ron Mann

Ronald "Ron" Mann (born June 13, 1959) is a Canadian documentary film director focusing primarily on aspects of Canadian and American popular culture.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Sound poetry

Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words".

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Steve McCaffery

Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University.

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Textuality

In literary theory, textuality comprises all of the attributes that distinguish the communicative content under analysis as an object of study.

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The Four Horsemen (poetry)

The Four Horsemen was a sound poetry group of Canadian poets composed of bpNichol, Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton and Steve McCaffery that also performed concrete poetry.

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The Raccoons

The Raccoons is a Canadian animated series which was originally broadcast from 1985 to 1992, with three preceding television specials from its inception in 1980, and one direct to video special in 1984.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Under the Umbrella Tree

Under the Umbrella Tree is a Canadian children's television series created by Noreen Young that originally aired on CBC from 1986 to 1993.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Visual poetry

Literary theorists have identified visual poetry as a development of concrete poetry but with the characteristics of intermedia in which non-representational language and visual elements predominate.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrie_Phillip_Nichol

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