Barbara Nickel


Barbara Kathleen Nickel is a Canadian poet.

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.
She was on a panel at the 2005 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference.

Awards

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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 and searchingly paces the halls of a family history that's filled with heartache.