copyright © Ellie Nichol, 1990,2003

Second edition

This epub edition pubished in 2010. Electronic ISBN 978 1 77056 073 4.

The quotation on the back cover is from bpNichoFs “Narrative in Language: The Long Poem,” first published in The Dinosaur Review, then reprinted in Tracing the Paths, edited by Roy Miki (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1988).

Thanks to Nicky Drumbolis, Lola Tostevin and Ellie Nichol. - I.N.

Published with the assistance of the Canada

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Nichol, B. P., 1944–1988

Gifts : the martyrology book(s) 7 & / b.p. Nichol. - 2nd ed.

Poems.

ISBN 1–55245–090–2

I. Title. II. Title: Martyrology book(s) 7 &.

PS8527.I32G55 2003           C81 T.54           C00-930205–0