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Nichol, Eleanor
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Eleanor (Ellie) Nichol, née Hiebert, is a Canadian poet, writer, and printer. In 1968, she met a Canadian poet, writer, sound poet, editor, and creative writing teacher, Barrie Philip Nichol, known as bpNichol (1944-1988), at Therafields, a therapeutic organization, and they married in 1980. Together they wrote books of poetry, "A Bouquet as Thanks" (198?) and "One Thread: Two H's" (1987). They also published "Le Chien Bleu" (1985) and “Clouds and Water; An Exhibition of Works on Fabric and Paper” (1981). In 2012, she published the book "Refuting a.k.a. bpNichol."