movement death_date death_place birth_place awards nationality notableworks birth_date language genre image article_title name
concrete poetry ; the four horsemen 25 september 1988 toronto vancouver governor general 's award for poetry canadian '' the martyrology '' 30 september 1944 english poetry bpnichol-rosenfeld . jpg barrie phillip nichol
 barrie p. nichol
barrie phillip nichol

barrie phillip nichol -lrb- 30 september 1944 vancouver , british columbia -- 25 september 1988 toronto , ontario -rrb- , who often went by his lower-case initials and last name , with no spaces -lrb- bpnichol -rrb- , was a canadian poet .
he 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 .
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 .
for having such a brief lifespan , nichol produced a highly prolific volume of work .
however , it was often ephemeral , such as performance .
