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bill bissett
1939 -
works by
- fires in the temple (1966)
- we sleep inside each other all (1966)
- awake in th red desert (1968)
- nobody owns th earth (anansi, 1971)
- th high green hill (1972)
- pomes for yoshi (1972)
- th first sufi line (blewointmentpress "printid in ltd edishun uv 500 copees jan 1973")
- pass th food release th spirit book (1973)
- medicine my mouths on fire (1974)
- plutonium missing (1976)
- sailor. (talonbooks, 1978)
- selected poems: Beyond Even Faithfull Legends (1980)
- norther birds in color (1981)
- Seagull on Yonge Street (talonbooks, 1983)
- air 10-11-12 (air)
- living with th vishyun (new star books)
- The Last Blewointment Anthology, as editor (Nightwood Editions, 1985)
- canada gees mate for life (talonbooks, 1985)
- Animal Uproar (talonbooks, 1987)
- What We Have (talonbooks,1988)
- hard 2 beleev (1992)
- th last photo uv th human soul (talonbooks, 1993)
- inkorrect thots (talonbooks, 1992)
- th influenza uv logik (talonbooks, 1995)
- scars on th seehors (talonbooks, 1999)
audio recordings
- sonic horses, with dermot foley and lenore coutts ( )
- Luddites, with Peter Denny, Gerry Collins and Murray Favro (1987)
- Shining spirit (1989)
- Luddites dreemin uv th nite (1991)
art exhibits
"wun prson show richmond art galleree, 1985. wun prson show pizzaricos vancouvr, 1985. selby hotel art galleree toronto, 1989. not just deserts vancouvr, 1993. modern fuel galleree kingston, 1994. 501 church st. April, 1997 toronto."
works on
- Frank Davey, From There to Here (1974)
- Eli Mandel, "Ecological Heroes and Visionary Politics: Contemporary Primitivism in Canadian Writing," Rune, no.2 (1975):55-67
- Len Early, "bill bissett/Poetics, Politics & Vision," Essays on Canadian Writing no. 5 (1976):4-24
- Jack David, "Visual Poetry in Canada: Birney, bissett, and bp," Studies in Canadian Literature, 2 (1977):252-66
- Steve McCaffery, "Bill Bissett: A Writing Outside Writing," North of Intention: Critical Writings 19973-1986 (1986)
awards
- Milton Acorn Peopl's Poet Award for 1990
- Dorothy Livesay BC Book Award for Poetry for 1993
resources
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league of canadian poets
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picture and brief bio.
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bill bissett
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brief bio and picture
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scream 93
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brief bio and picture from bill's reading at the 93 Scream at High Park festival
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Qwerte
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listen to bill reading a few of his poems online.
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