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George Bowering Biography |
George Harry Bowering (born 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He is one of a group of poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, James Reid, and David Dawson who were together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal Tish. He lives in Vancouver B.C. and teaches at Simon Fraser University.
Works:
Poetry
Points on the Grid - 1964
Sticks and Stones - 1964
The Silver Wire - 1966
Rocky Mountain Foot - 1968
The Gangs of Kosmos - 1969 (winner of the 1969 Governor General's Award for Poetry)
Touch - 1971
Geneve - 1971
Curious - 1973
In the Flesh - 1974
The Catch - 1976
Allophanes - 1976
The Concrete Island: Montreal Poems - 1977
Another Mouth - 1979
The Mask In Place - 1982
West Window - 1982
Smoking Mirror 1982
Kerrisdale Ellegies - 1984
Seventy-One Poems for People - 1985
Delayed Mercy - 1986
Urban Snow - 1992
Parents from Space - 1994
Blondes on Bikes - 1997
Diamondback Dog - 1998
His Life - 2000 (Nominated for a Governor General's Award)
Fiction
Mirror on the Floor - 1967
Autobiology - 1972
Flycatcher and other stories - 1974
A Short Sad Book - 1977
Concentric Circles - 1977
Protective Footwear - 1978
Burning Water - 1980 (winner of the 1980 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
A Place to Die - 1983
Caprice - 1988
Harry's Fragments - 1990
Shoot! - 1994
The Rain Barrel - 1994
Non-Fiction
Al Purdy - 1970
Sa Way With Words - 1982
Craft Slices - 1985
Errata - 1988
Imaginary Hand - 1988
The Moustache: Memories of Greg Curnoe - 1993
Bowering's B.C: A Swashbuckling History - 1997
Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada - 1999
A Magpie Life: Growing a Writer - 2001 |
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