Barbara Nickel

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Barbara Nickel
Born (1966-06-22) June 22, 1966 (age 57)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
OccupationPoet
NationalityCanadian
Education Goshen College
University of British Columbia (MFA)
Notable awards Pat Lowther Award (1998)

Barbara Kathleen Nickel (born June 22, 1966, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet. [1]

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Life

She was raised in Rosthern, Saskatchewan. She graduated from Goshen College and the University of British Columbia with an M.F.A. She was the poetry editor of Prism International.

She moved to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, then back in British Columbia. [2] She was on a panel at the 2005 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference. [3]

Awards

Publications

Young adult fiction

Anthologies

Criticism

Review

In Domain, her second collection, B.C. poet and fiction writer Barbara Nickel engages explicitly with the concept of home – specifically, the house she grew up in and the memories it evokes. That focus doesn't mean the poems are narrow in scope. Nickel subtly explores the broader associations of each room (for instance, the section "Master Bedroom" comments on marriage) and searchingly paces the halls of a family history that's filled with heartache (her Russian ancestors' village is described in idyllic terms, until "Revolution burned / that inside out"). [4]

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References

  1. Elizabeth Lumley (2005). Canadian Who's Who 2005. University of Toronto Press. ISBN   978-0-8020-8907-6.
  2. "Who's". Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
  3. "Northern Poetry Review". Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
  4. Barbara Carey (June 10, 2007). "Home, it's where we want to be". The Toronto Star.