'All of Nichol's work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poet's instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poet's quest for insight into himself and his writing through scrupulous attention to the messages hidden in the morphology of his own speech.' -- Frank Davey
- ISBN10 0889102511
- ISBN13 9780889102514
- Publish Date 3 February 1994 (first published 18 January 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Coach House Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 176
- Language English