Douglas George Fetherling (born 1 Jan 1949) is a Canadian

Canada

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 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, novelist, journalist

Journalist

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 and essayist. One of the most prolific figures in Canadian letters, he has written and edited more than fifty books, including more than a dozen volumes of poetry, two novels, and a multi-volume memoir. He wrote as either Doug or Douglas Fetherling until 1999 when he began using his middle name.

Fetherling is the editor and publisher of Subway Books, an independent publishing house based in Vancouver, British Columbia

British Columbia

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. His column, "Books this Week", appears in Seven Oaks magazine, an online journal and Geist

Geist (magazine)

Geist is Canada's most widely read literary magazine. Geist is published four times a year in Vancouver since 1990. The magazine takes its name from the German word geist, meaning "mind" or "spirit."...

magazine.

A study of Fetherling's books George Fetherling and His Work, edited by Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Port Alice, British Columbia.A past president of the League of Canadian Poets and the Federation of BC Writers she lives in Victoria, British Columbia.-Poetry:...

, features essays by W. H. New

W. H. New

William Herbert New, OC, FRSC is a Canadian poet and literary critic. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of Leeds. He taught English literature at the former from 1965 to 2003...

, George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke, OC is a Canadian poet and playwright. His work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the Black Canadian community of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as "Africadia".-Life:Born to William and Geraldine...

, Brian Busby

Brian Busby

Brian John Busby is a Canadian literary historian and anthologist. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, he attended John Abbott College and Concordia University...

 and others.

Poetry

• United States of Heaven — 1968
• My Experience in the War — 1970
• Our Man in Utopia — 1971
• Café Terminus — 1973
• Eleven Early Poems — 1973
• Achilles' Navel — 1974
• Subroutines — 1981
• Variorum: New Poems and Old, 1965-1985 — 1985
• Moving Towards the Vertical Horizon — 1986
• Rites of Alienation — 1988
• The Dreams of Ancient Peoples — 1990
• Selected Poems — 1994
• Madagascar — 2000
• Singer, An Elegy — 2004

Fiction

• The File on Arthur Moss — 1994
• Jericho — 2005
• Tales of Two Cities — 2006

Non-fiction

• The Five Lives of Ben Hecht — 1977
• Gold Diggers of 1929: Canada and the Great Stock Market Crash — 1979
• The Blue Notebook: Reports on Canadian Culture — 1985
• The Crowded Darkness — 1988
• The Gold Crusades: A Social History of the Gold Rushes, 1849-1929 — 1988
• The Rise of the Canadian Newspaper — 1990
• A LIttle Bit of Thunder: The Strange Inner LIfe of the Kingston Whig-Standard — 1993
• The Book of Assassins — 2001
• River of Gold: The Fraser and Cariboo Gold Rushes — 2008

Memoir

• Notes from a Journal 1978-1980 — 1987
• Travels By Night: A Memoir of the Sixties — 1994
• Way Down Deep in the Belly of the Beast: A Memoir of the Seventies — 1996

Travel writing

• Year of the Horse: A Journey Through Russia and China — 1991
• The Other China: Journeys Around Taiwan — 1995
• Running Away to Sea: Round the World on a Tramp Freighter — 1998
• Three Pagodas Pass: A Roundabout Journey to Burma — 2002
• One Russia, Two Chinas — 2004

Anthologies edited

• A George Woodcock Reader — 1980
• Carl Sandburg at the Movies: A Poet in the Silent Era 1920-1927 — 1985 (with Dale Fetherling)
• Documents in Canadian Art — 1987
• Documents in Canadian Film — 1988
• The Broadview Book of Canadian Anecdotes — 1988
• Best Canadian Essays 1989 — 1989
• Best Canadian Essays 1990 — 1990
• The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs — 2001

External links

• George Fetherling's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• George Fetherling at Geist
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