Photo info bpNichol -Biography- -Publications- -Critical Materials- -U of Calgary Info- -Internet Links- -Miscellaneous- Biography bpNichol (Barrie Phillip) was born September 30, 1944 in Vancouver, and he died just before his forty-fourth birthday in 1988. During his productive lifetime, Nichol published countless chapbooks and works which frequently challenged or redefined ideas of texts, ...

THE VISUAL POETRY OF BPNICHOL; A BRIEF SKETCH by Karl Young Though bpNichol worked simultaneously in a number of modes, he first gained a wide audience through visual poetry published in magazines and anthologies with an international orientation in the second half of the 60's and in the early 70's. The entire entry for Canada in Mary Ellen Solt's 1968/1970 anthology reads: Canada's leading ...