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Barrie Phillip Nichol (September 30, 1944 - September 25, 1988), who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces (bpNichol), was a Canadian poet. Events 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 303 - On a voyage preaching the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and became widely known for his concrete poetry while living there in the 1960s. Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal British Columbia (ˌbrɪtɨʃ kəˈlʌmbiə ( BC) ( (la Colombie-Britannique C Concrete poetry, pattern poetry or shape poetry is Poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He received his elementary teaching certificate from the University of British Columbia in 1963, but he only worked a brief stint as a teacher. The University of British Columbia ( UBC) is a Canadian public research University with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He had audited creative writing courses while in university, and his life moved in that direction after about a year of teaching. It is safe to say that Nichol was at least partly responsible for changing the way subsequent Canadian poets deal with text and even meaning itself.

His most famous published work is probably The Martyrology, a long poem encompassing 9 books in 6 volumes.

Nichol also worked in a wide variety of other genres, including musical theatre, children's books, collage/assemblage, pamphlets, spoken word, computer texts, fiction, and television. Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance. Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 A collage (From the coller to glue is a work of formal art primarily in the Visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms thus creating a new whole A pamphlet is an unbound Booklet (that is without a hard cover or binding) Spoken word is a form of literary Art or artistic performance in which Lyrics, Poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung For having such a brief lifespan, Nichol produced a highly prolific volume of work. However, it was often ephemeral, such as performance.

Fortunately for those interested in Nichol's less publishable work, his early work in sound poetry was documented in Michael Ondaatje's film Sons of Captain Poetry (1970); in Borders, a small phonodisc included with his poetic work Journeying & the returns (1967); and in the long-playing record Motherlove (1968). Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC (ɒnˈdɑːtʃiː (born 12 September 1943 is a Sri Lankan Canadian Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Also, the 1998 film bp/pushing the boundaries was made on Nichol and his contributions to art by Brian Nash (director) and Elizabeth Yake (producer). Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar)

Although Nichol had been writing since 1961, he first attracted public notice in the mid-1960s with his hand-drawn or "concrete" poems, and received international acclaim. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The "visual book" Still water, together with the booklets The true eventual story of Billy the Kid and Beach Head as well as the anthology of concrete poetry, The cosmic chef, won the Governor General's Award for poetry. The Governor General's Awards are named in honour of the Governor General of Canada, and are presented in a number of fields

In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and Steve McCaffery, forming the sound-poetry group The Four Horsemen. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian Poet and Scholar who was a professor at York University.

He was known as a promoter of poetry and the small press, a manipulator of the lines between genres, and a prolific Canadian word artist.

A street in Toronto, Canada, is named in his honour. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario bpNichol Lane is located in the Annex district behind Coach House Press. The Annex is a neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario. It features an eight-line poem by Nichol carved into the pavement: "A / LAKE / A / LANE / A / LINE / A / LONE". (An employee at Coach House regularly waters the word "LAKE". )

Contents

Published works

Note: this list is not complete.

Poetry

Booklets

From 'The Capitain Poetry Poems' (1971) (and many others)

Prose

Visual Books

Recordings

Television

References

External links

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