• Barrie Phillip Nichol (30 September 1944 – 25 September 1988), known as bpNichol, was a Canadian poet, writer, sound poet, editor, Creative Writing teacher...
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  • collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol, forming the sound-poetry group, The Four Horsemen. Some of McCaffery's...
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  • George Bowering, Nicole Brossard, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Christopher Dewdney, bpNichol and Anne Michaels, Darren O'Donnell, Sean Dixon, Greg MacArthur, Matthew...
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  • film is a portrait of the life and career of Canadian experimental poet bpNichol. The film premiered at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival, where...
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  • Associates). Filming took place on a Toronto soundstage. The avant-garde poet bpNichol worked as one of the show's writers. In the early days of development,...
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    Laureate Lester B. Pearson lived at 12 Admiral Road from 1925 to 1928. bpnichol lived at 59 Admiral with Lea Hindley-Smith, founder of Therafields, and...
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  • sino-tibetan singer bill bissett, Canadian poet danah boyd, American scholar bpNichol, Canadian poet adrienne maree brown, American author, activist, facilitator...
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  • grOnk, or GRoNK, was a Canadian literary magazine begun in 1967 by bpNichol and others (for example, David Aylward, David W. Harris (later David UU; co-editor...
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  • for Johns's writing Year Title Award Result Ref. 2019 How Not to Spill bpNichol Chapbook Award 2020 "Bad Cree" Journey Prize Winner 2023 Bad Cree Amazon...
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  • prominent sound poets include Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Ada Verdun Howell, bpNichol, Bill Bissett, Adeena Karasick, William S. Burroughs, Giovanni Fontana...
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    press and experimental poetry, including the Canadian writer bpNichol. A collection of Nichol's early long poems was compiled and edited by Cain in 2014....
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  • The Four Horsemen was a sound poetry group of Canadian poets composed of bpNichol, Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton and Steve McCaffery that also performed...
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  • 2015 Gerald Lampert Award. Her chapbook Summer was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. A second book of poetry, I left nothing inside on purpose...
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  • a bilingual play Isle of Demons, first produced in 2004. Canadian poet bpNichol depicted her in his poem "lament". The British writer Sara Maitland discusses...
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  • poet and an important small press publisher. Along with Bill Bissett and bpNichol, he was a pioneer of the concrete poetry movement in Canada, and perhaps...
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  • joined, along with bpNichol and Michael Ondaatje, the new editorial board of The Coach House Press. With the assistance of Nichol and Barbara Godard,...
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    music and a BA in creative writing in 1985, where he studied writing with bpNichol, Frank Davey and music with David Mott, James Tenney, and Trichy Sankaran...
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  • the radishes are returned. 20 20 "The Garden Plot" George Bloomfield B.P. Nichol May 23, 1983 (1983-05-23) 120 Red heads to the Gorg's garden to steal...
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    the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated...
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  • published 40 books, including work by George Bowering, Victor Coleman, bpNichol, John Newlove, William Hawkins, and David McFadden. As an editor, he was...
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  • $2500 prize. Fiction: Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors. Poetry or Drama: bpNichol, Beach Head, Still Water and The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid Poetry...
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  • (1970–1988), along with Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Steve McCaffery, and the late bpNichol, Dutton joined his soundsinging oralities and harmonica-playing to John...
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  • Wallace Memorial Award, 2000 Shortlist, CBC Literary Award (Poetry), 2010 bpNichol Chapbook Award, 2017 Shortlist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, 2020 "Sonnet...
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  • Charles Olson, E.E. Cummings, Eli Mandel, Andrew Suknaski, Daphne Marlatt, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, and Robert Kroetsch. As a student, Cooley held a variety...
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  • human, more-than-human, other-than, non. In 2001, rawlings received the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing when she graduated from York University...
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  • Kingsway, the bees, (above/ground press, 2016), was a finalist for the 2017 bpNichol award. Listening to the Bees received the Gold Medal for the 2019 Independent...
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    and then un-made (Gaspereau Press, 2013), which was short-listed for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, The Telephone Game (Baseline Press, 2017), and Against...
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  • Adams Richards, Wayne Johnston, Peter Behrens, Hugh Hood, David Helwig, bpNichol, George Bowering and W.P. Kinsella. Two short-story anthologies, Best Canadian...
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  • late 1960s and early 1970s saw greater experimentation from poets such as bpNichol, Lionel Kearns, David UU, Joe Rosenblatt, Steve McCaffery, Judith Copithorne...
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  • criticism. Notable Talonbooks authors include Michel Tremblay, George Ryga, bpNichol, George Bowering, bill bissett, Daphne Marlatt, George F. Walker, M.A.C...
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