bissett, bill

bissett, bill, poet, painter, singer (b 23 Nov 1939, Halifax). As a young teenager he ran away from home with his boyfriend and eventually settled in VANCOUVER. There he became a central figure in the counterculture movement, as a poet and as publisher of BLEWOINTMENT magazine, which evolved into blewointmentpress, a BOOK PUBLISHER. bissett's poetry, distinctive for its use of lower case and phonetic spelling, and his sound poetry performances in cities across North America and in Europe have...

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