Download or read book Language and the Sacred in Canadian Poet BpNichol's The Martyrology written by Susan Elizabeth Billingham and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the circular relationship between notation and faith in bp Nichol's life-long poem, The Martyrology. Pun and paradox, the ability to believe simultaneously in apparently contradictory things, lie at the heart of Nichol's writing, which this work discusses. This work proposes pataphysics as a useful category for understanding Nichol's poetics.