Name Barbara Nickel | Role Poet | |
Books A Boy Asked the Wind, Hannah Waters and the Daug, From the Top of A Grain Ele, Domain: Poems |
Barbara Nickel reads her work
Barbara Kathleen Nickel (born June 22, 1966, in Saskatoon, Sasketchewan) is a Canadian poet.
Contents
- Barbara Nickel reads her work
- World Read Aloud Day Barbara Nickel
- Life
- Awards
- Publications
- Young adult fiction
- Anthologies
- Criticism
- Review
- References

World Read Aloud Day - Barbara Nickel
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, then back in British Columbia. She was on a panel at the 2005 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference.
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").