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Title: aka BpNichol
Subtitle: A Preliminary Biography
Author: Frank Davey
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
Language: English
Release date: 02-03-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
Reflecting on the career of a prominent poet, this biography focuses on Canadian wordsmith Barrie Nichol - more commonly known by his pen name, bpNichol - who was a practicing lay psychoanalyst and vice president of one the largest and longest-lasting North American communes for more than a decade. Recognizing his international influence as both a visual and sound poet, Nichols literary achievements are reviewed, including The Martyrology - a renowned, seven-volume poem - four novels, two musical comedies, six childrens books, hundreds of hand-drawn visual poems, and even 10 episodes of Jim Hensons hit television series Fraggle Rock.
Penned by one of Nichols numerous literary collaborators, this account reveals the close connections among the writers various activities, particularly how the autobiographical inquiries and Freudian dream theory linked with the young poets biographical self-awareness. The audiobook demonstrates how the subjects main psychoanalytic client was his own writing, following Nichol as he explored its slips, accidental puns, and "unintended" meanings and implications for the communal future of the human species - both in high literature and comical prime time television.
Editorial Reviews:
Dropping his first name and going by the curiously arranged bpNichol, the poet Barrie Phillip Nichol gained quite the following for his concrete poetry. He is perhaps best known for the epic poem The Martyrology, but crossed over a multitude of genres in his career, including musical theatre, collage, fiction, and more. In this biography by one of bpNichols literary collaborators, Frank Davey, and performed with a gentle empathy by veteran narrator Kirby Heyborne, listeners get an intimate look at what inspired and drove the late poet. By examining a wide breadth of bpNichols work, Davey gives as complete a picture as possible of this enigmatic poet.
