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George Harry Bowering, OC
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, OBC
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 (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian
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 novelist, poet
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, historian
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, and biographer. He has served as Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

He was born in Penticton
Penticton, British Columbia
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, British Columbia
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, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver
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, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher. Bowering is author of more than 90 books.

Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey
Frank Davey
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, Fred Wah
Fred Wah
Frederick James Wah is a Canadian poet, novelist, and scholar.Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but grew up in the interior of British Columbia. His Canadian-born father was raised in China, the son of a Chinese father and a Scots-Irish mother. Fred Wah's mother was a Swedish-born...

, Jamie Reid
Jamie Reid (Canadian poet)
Jamie Reid is a Canadian poet, writer, and arts organizer/activist. He was born in Timmins, Ontario and came of age on the west coast of Canada....

, and David Dawson who studied together at the University of British Columbia
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 in the 1950s. There they founded the journal TISH
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. Bowering lives in Vancouver, British Columbia
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 and is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University
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, where he worked for 30 years. Never having written as an adherent of organized religion, he has in the past wryly described himself as a Baptist
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 agnostic. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate
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. That same year, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada
Order of Canada
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. He was awarded the Order of British Columbia
Order of British Columbia
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 in 2004.

When the Indian Hungryalist, also known as Hungry generation
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, poet Malay Roy Choudhury
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, was arrested at Kolkata, India, Bowering brought out a special issue of Imago for helping the Indian poet in his trial.

Bowering was one of the judges for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize
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.

Fiction

  • Mirror on the Floor - 1967
  • A Short Sad Book - 1977
  • Burning Water - 1980 (winner of the 1980 Governor General's Award for Fiction
    1980 Governor General's Awards
    Each winner of the 1980 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.-Fiction:Winner:*George Bowering, Burning WaterOther Finalists:...

    ), 2007
  • Caprice - 1988, 2010
  • Harry's Fragments - 1990
  • Shoot! - 1994, 2008
  • Parents from Space - 1994
  • Piccolo Mondo - 1998 (with Angela Bowering, Michael Matthews & David Bromige)
  • Diamondback Dog - 1998
  • "Pinboy" Toronto, Cormorant, 2010.

Short Fiction

  • Autobiology - 1972
  • Fiddler's Night - 1973
  • Flycatcher and Other Stories - 1974
  • Concentric Circles - 1977
  • Protective Footwear - 1978
  • A Place to Die - 1983
  • The Rain Barrel - 1994
  • Standing on Richards - 2004
  • "The Box" - 2009

Booklength Poems

  • "Baseball" Toronto, Coach House Press, 1967, 2003.
  • "Sitting in Mexico" Calgary, Beaver Kosmos, 1970.
  • "George,Vancouver" Kitchener, Weed/Flower, 1970.
  • "Geneve" Toronto, Coach House, 1971.
  • "Autobiology" Vancouver, New Star, 1972. Vancouver, Pooka, 2006.
  • "Curious" Toronto, Coach House, 1973.
  • "At War With the U.S." Vancouver, Talon, 1974.
  • "Allophanes" Toronto, Coach House, 1976.
  • "Ear Reach" Vancouver, Alcuin, 1982,
  • "Kerrisdale Elegies" Toronto, Coach House, 1984. Vancouver, Pooka Press, 2008.
    • Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2008.
  • "Elegie di Kerrisdale" Rome, Edizioni Empiria. Transl. Annalisa Goldoni. 1996.
  • "His Life: a poem" Toronto, ECW Press, 2000.

Collections of Poems (including gathered long poems

  • "Sticks & Stones" Vancouver, Tishbooks, 1963.
  • "Points on the Grid" Toronto, Contact Press, 1964.
  • "The Man in Yellow Boots/ El hombre de las botas amarillas" Mexico,
    • Ediciones El Corno, 1965.
  • "The Silver Wire" Kingston, Quarry Press, 1966.
  • "Rocky Mountain Foot" Toronto, M&S, 1969.
  • "The Gangs of Kosmos" Toronto, House of Anansi, 1969.
  • "Touch: selected poems 1960-1969" Toronto, M&S, 1971.
  • "In the Flesh" Toronto, M&S, 1974.
  • "The Catch" Toronto, M&S, 1976.
  • "Poem & Other Baseballs" Windsor, Black Moss, 1976.
  • "The Concrete Island" Montreal, Vehicule Press, 1977.
  • "Another Mouth" Toronto, M&S, 1979.
  • "Particular Accidents: selected poems" Vancouver, Talon, 1981.
  • "West Window: selected poetry" Toronto, General, 1982.
  • "Smoking Mirror" Edmonton, Longspoon, 1982.
  • "Seventy-One Poems for People" Red Deer, RDC Press, 1985.
  • "Delayed Mercy & other poems" Toronto, Coach House, 1986.
  • "Sticks & Stones" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1989.
  • "Urban Snow" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1992.
  • "George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961-1992" Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1993.
  • "Blonds on Bikes" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1997.
  • "Poémes et autres baseballs" Montreal. Tryptique, 1999 (collaboration).
  • "Changing on the Fly" Vancouver, Polestar, 2004.
  • "Vermeer’s Light: Poems 1996-2006" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2006, 2007.
  • Kerrisdale Elegies 2nd Edition; Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2008.
  • My Darling Nellie Gray Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2010.

Criticism

  • "Al Purdy" Toronto, Copp Clark, 1970.
  • "Robert Duncan: an Interview" Toronto, Coach House/Beaver Kosmos, 1971.
  • "Three Vancouver Writers" Toronto, Open Letter/Coach House, 1979.
  • "A Way With Words" Ottawa, Oberon, 1982.
  • "The Mask in Place" Winnipeg, Turnstone Press, 1983.
  • "Craft Slices" Ottawa, Oberon, 1985.
  • "Errata" Red Deer, RDC Press, 1988.
  • "Imaginary Hand" Edmonton, NeWest Press, 1988.
  • "Left Hook" Vancouver, Raincoast Books, 2005.

Chapbooks

  • "How I Hear Howl" Montreal, Beaver Kosmos, 1967.
  • "Two Police Poems" Vancouver, Talon, 1969.
  • "The Sensible" Toronto, Massasauga, 1972.
  • "Layers 1-13" Kitchener, Weed/Flower, 1973.
  • "In Answer" Vancouver, William Hoffer, 1977.
  • "Uncle Louis" Toronto, Coach House, 1980.
  • "Spencer & Groulx" Vancouver, William Hoffer, 1985.
  • "Quarters" Prince George, Gorse Press, 1991. (Winner, bp Nichol chapbook award 1991)
  • "Do Sink" Vancouver, Pomflit, 1992. (Winner, bp Nichol chapbook award, 1992).
  • "Sweetly" Vancouver, Wuz, 1992.
  • "Blondes on Bikes" Ottawa, Above Ground, 1997.
  • "A, You're Adorable" Ottawa, Above Ground, 1998, 2004.
  • "6 Little Poems in Alphabetical Order" Calgary, House Press, 2000.
  • "Some Writers" Calgary, House Press, 2001.
  • "Joining the Lost Generation" Calgary, House Press, 2002.
  • "Lost in the Library" Ellsworth, ME, Backwoods Broadsides, 2004.
  • "Rewriting my Grandfather" Vancouver, Nomados, 2005.
  • "Crows in the Wind" Toronto, BookThug, 2006.
  • "A Knot of Light" Calgary, No Press. 2006.
  • "Montenegro 1966" Calgary, No Press, 2007.
  • "U.S. Sonnets" Vancouver, Pooka, 2007.
  • "Eggs in There" Edmonton, Rubicon, 2007.
  • "Some Answers" Mt. Pleasant, ON, LaurelReed Books, 2007.
  • "Horizontal Surfaces" Edmonton, Olive Collective, 2007.
  • "Tocking Heads" Edmonton, above/ground, 2007.
  • "There Then" Prince George, Gorse Press, 2008.
  • "Animals, Beasts, Critters" Vancouver, JB Objects, 2008.
  • "Valley" Calgary, No Press, 2008
  • "Fulgencio" Vancouver, Nomados, 2008.
  • "According to Brueghel" North Vancouver, Capilano, 2008.
  • "Shall I Compare" Penticton, Beaver Kosmos, 2008.
  • "A Little Black Strap" St. Paul, Unarmed, 2009.

Memoirs

  • "The Moustache: remembering Greg Curnoe" Toronto, Coach House, 1993.
  • "A Magpie Life" Toronto, Key Porter, 2001.
  • "Cars" Toronto, Coach House Books, 2002.
  • "Baseball Love" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2006.

History

  • "Bowering's B.C." Toronto, Viking, 1996. Penguin, 1997. Also published in 2000 by Penguin
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    . ISBN 9780140275506. .
  • "Stone Country" Toronto, Viking, 2003. Penguin, 2004.

Plays

  • "The Home for Heroes" Vancouver, Prism, 1962.
  • "What Does Eddie Williams Want?" Montreal, CBC-TV, 1966.
  • "George Vancouver" Vancouver, CBC radio network, 1972.
  • "Sitting in Mexico" Vancouver, CBC radio network, 1973.
  • "Music in the Park" Vancouver, CBC radio network, 1986.
  • "The Great Grandchildren of Bill Bissett's Mice" Vancouver, CBC radio network,1989.

Editions

  • "The 1962 Poems of R.S. Lane" Toronto, Ganglia Press, 1965.
  • "Vibrations: poems of youth" Toronto, Gage, 1970.
  • "The Story so Far" Toronto, Coach House, 1972.
  • "The City in her Eyes" by David Cull, Vancouver, Vancouver Community Press, 1972.
  • "Imago Twenty" Vancouver, Talon, 1974.
  • "Cityflowers" by Artie Gold
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    Artie Gold was a Montreal based Canadian poet who rose to prominence in the 1970s as one of the circle of Montreal-based writers known as the Vehicule Poets...

    , Montreal, Delta Canada, 1974.
  • "Letters from Geeksville: letters from Red Lane 1960-64" Prince George, Caledonia Writing Series, 1976.
  • "Great Canadian Sports Stories" Ottawa, Oberon, 1979.
  • "Fiction of Contemporary Canada" Toronto, Coach House, 1980.
  • "Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek: selected poems of Fred Wah" Vancouver, Talon,1981.
  • "My Body was Eaten by Dogs: selected poems of David McFadden" Toronto, M&S, New York, CrossCountry, 1981.
  • "1945-1980," in Introduction to Poetry: British, American, Canadian, David and Lecker, Toronto, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981.
  • "The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology" Toronto, Coach House, 1983.
  • "Sheila Watson and The Double Hook: the artist and her critics" Ottawa, Golden Dog Press, 1984.
  • "Taking the Field:the best of baseball fiction" Red Deer, RDC Press, 1990.
  • "Likely Stories: a postmodern sampler" Toronto, Coach House Press, 1992. WithLinda Hutcheon.
  • "An H in the Heart: Selected works of bpNichol" Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1994. With Michael Ondaatje.
  • "And Other Stories" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2001.
  • "The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology" Toronto, House of Anansi, 2008.
  • "The Heart Does Break" Toronto, Random House, 2009. With Jean Baird.

Editor

  • "Tish" Vancouver, 1961-63.
  • "Imago" Calgary, London, Montreal, Vancouver, 1964-1974.
  • "Beaver Kosmos Folios" Calgary, London, Montreal, Vancouver, 1966-75.

About

  • "A Record of Writing: an annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of GeorgeBowering" by Roy Miki, Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1989, 401 pp.
  • "Essays on Canadian Writing, George Bowering issue" ed. Ken Norris, 1989, 127 pp.
  • "George Bowering: Bright Circles of Colour" by Eva-Marie Kroller,Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1992, 128 pp.
  • "George Bowering and His Works" by John Harris, Toronto, ECW Press, 1992, 62 pp.
  • "71 (+) for GB" ed. Jean Baird, David McFadden and George Stanley, Vancouver/Toronto, (printed at) Coach House Books, 2005.

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