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Barrie Phillip Nichol (1944-1988), who often goes by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces (bpNichol), is a Canadian poet. He was born on September 30, 1944, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and became widely known for his concrete poetry while living there in the 1960s.

He received his elementary teaching certificate from the University of British Columbia in 1963, but he only worked a brief stint as a teacher. He had audited creative writing courses while in university, and his life moved in that direction after about a year of teaching.

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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. The Martyrology is 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[?], s