bpNichol

Bio:

Barrie Phillip Nichol, known as bpNichol, was a Canadian writer. His body of work spans poetry, novels, short fiction, children’s books, musical scores, comic book art, collage/assemblage, computer texts, and concrete poems that explore the material, tangible, and aural qualities of language. An inveterate collaborator, he worked closely with the sound poetry ensemble The Four Horsemen; poet Steve McCaffery as part of the Toronto Research Group; visual artist Barbara Caruso; and countless other writers. Nichol’s playful approach to narrative often manifested in humorous reworkings of conventions within genres ranging from the novel, to the western, the detective story, the romance novel, the journal entry and the autobiography.