bill bissett (born William Frederick Bissett, November 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style. He purposefully does not capitalize his name. is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the art form. ...

Life

bissett was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He attended Dalhousie University (1956) and the University of British Columbia (1963 - 1965). bissett dropped out of both universities because of an overriding desire to live as a free agent, writer and painter unencumbered by any academic constraints. He did complete course requirements for his two majors in English and Philosophy. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1958. Five years later he started the blew ointment magazine. He later launched blewointment press, which has published volumes by Cathy Ford, Maxine Gadd, Michael Coutts, Hart Broudy, Rosemary Hollingshead, Beth Jankola, Carolyn Zonailo, bpNichol, Ken West, Lionel Kearns and D. A. Levy. One person art show, curated by Scott Watson, 1984-85 at the Vancouver Art Gallery and a rezoning construksyun group show 1989 four person show with Al Neil curated by Keith Wallace. bissett is based in Vancouver and Toronto, Ontario, alternating between the two cities. Motto: E Mari Merces(Latin) From the Sea, Wealth Coordinates: , Country Province Established April 1, 1996 Government  - Type Regional Municipality  - Mayor Peter Kelly  - Governing body Halifax Regional Council  - MPs List of MPs Alexa McDonough Geoff Regan Michael Savage Peter Stoffer (Bill Casey) (Gerald Keddy) (Peter MacKay)  - MLAs List of MLAs... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 11 Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867... Dalhousie University is a university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. ... The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Canadian public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna. ... For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ... Motto: Splendor sine occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 36 Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 5th Total 944... Carolyn Zonailo (born 1947) is a Canadian poet and publisher. ... Barrie Phillip Nichol (September 30, 1944 _ September 25, Canadian poet. ... Biographical Note on Lionel Kearns, based on an entry by Frank Davey in the Lionel Kearns was born in 1937 and raised in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, where he was an enthusiastic student, musician and athlete. ... d. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 107 Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area...

Career

He is known for his use of a unique orthography and incorporating visual elements in his printed poetry, and his performance of "concrete sound" poetry, sound effects, chanting, and barefoot dancing during his poetry readings. He has also had large exhibits of his paintings and made audio recordings. His work typically ranges from the mystical to the mundane, incorporating humor, a sense of wonder and sentimentality, and political commentary. The orthography of a language specifies the correct way of using a specific writing system to write the language. ... Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of movies, video games, music, or other media. ... For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ...

In 2006, Nightwood Editions published radiant danse uv being (Jeff Pew & Stephen Roxborough, eds.), a poetic tribute to bissett with contributions from more than 80 writers, including Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane, Steve McCaffery, P. K. Page and Darren Wershler-Henry. Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. ... Leonard Norman Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. ... Lorna Crozier (1948-2006) was a Canadian poet who lived in Saanichton, British Columbia. ... Patrick Lane (born March 26, 1939, Nelson, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet. ... Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University, but now holds the Gray Chair at SUNY Buffalo (Amherst). ... Patricia Kathleen Page (born November 23, 1916), commonly known as P. K. Page, is a Canadian poet. ... Darren Wershler-Henry is a Canadian experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic. ...

Bibliography

• Th Jinx ship nd othr trips: pomes, drawings, collage - (1966)
• Th gossamer bed pan - (1967)
• Lebanon voices - (1967)
• Where is Miss Florence Riddle? - (1967)
• What Poetiks - (1967)
• Awake in th red desert! - (1968)
• Of the land divine service: poems - (1968)
• Liberating skies - (1969)
• The Lost Angel Mining Co. - (1969)
• S th story I to: trew adventure - (1970)
• Tuff shit: [love pomes] - (1970)
• Why dusint the League of Canadian Poets do sumthing nd get an organizer for cross country poetry reading circuit: [sic] press release. - (1970)
• Blew trewz - (1971)
• Dragon fly - (1971)
• Nobody owns th earth - (1971)
• Ice - (1972)
• Pomes for Yoshi - (1972)
• Th first sufi line - (1973)
• Pass th food release th spirit book - (1973)
• Living with the vishyun - (1974)
• Medicine my mouth's on fire - (1974)
• Space travl - (1974)
• What - (1974)
• Yu can eat it at th opening - (1974)
• Image being - (1975)
• Stardust - (1975)
• Th fifth sun - (1975)
• Venus - (1975)
• An allusyn sic to macbeth - (1976)
• Sailor - (1978)
• Selected poems: beyond even faithful legends (editor) - (1980)
• Northern birds in color - (1981)
• Seagull on Yonge Street - (1983)
• Canada gees mate for life - (1985)
• The Last Blewointment anthology (editor) - (1986)
• Animal uproar - (1987)
• What we have - (1988)
• Hard 2 beleev - (1990)
• Inkorrect thots - (1992)
• Th last photo uv th human soul - (1993)
• Th influenza uv logik - (1995)
• Loving without being vulnrabul - (1997)
• Scars on th seehors - (1999)
• B leev abul char ak trs - (2000)
• peter among th towring boxes / text bites - (2002)
• narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane - (2004)
• northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing - (2005)
• ths is erth, thees ar peopul - (2007)

See also

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• Coupal, Michel. "Quelques aspects de l'identite culturelle canadienne dans l'oeuvre de Bill Bissett." Annales du Centre de Recherches sur l'Amerique 18 (1993): 47-54, 360.
• David, Jack. "Visual Poetry in Canada: Birney, Bissett, and bp." Studies in Canadian Literature 2 (1977): 252-66.
• Early, Len. "Bill Bissett: Poetics, Politics & Vision." Essays on Canadian Writing 4 (1976): 4-24.
• Enright, Robert. "Composition by feeled the visual art of bill bissett." Capilano Review 2.23 (1997): 105-7.
• Maylon, Carol. "we ar always on th 401: the use of fiction in bissett's poems." Capilano Review 2.23 (1997): 113-6.
• Pew, Jeff, and Stephen Roxborough (editors). radiant danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait of bill bissett. Roberts Creek, B. C.: Nightwood Editions, 2006.
• Precosky, Don. "Bill Bissett: Controversies and Definitions." Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 27 (1990): 15-29.
• Precosky, Don. "Self selected/selected self: bill bissett's Beyond Even Faithful Legends." Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 34 (1994): 57-78.
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• Wershler-Henry, Darren. "Vertical excess: what fuckan theory and bill bissett's concrete poetics." Capilano Review 2.23 (1997): 117-24.

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External links

• paintings by bill bissett
• Review of bissett's pavlov's dog 1
• bissett's poems at University of Toronto
• Online interview with bissett