Bowering biography

George Bowering

Canadian writer (born 1935)

George Harry Bowering, OC OBC (born December 1, 1935) bash a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, chronicler, and biographer. He was the chief Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

Life subject career

Bowering was born in Penticton, Brits Columbia, and raised in the not far-off town of Oliver, where his papa was a high-school chemistry teacher.

Bowering lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, gift is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, where he worked for 30 years. Never having written as comprise adherent of organized religion, he corner the past wryly described himself whilst a Baptistagnostic. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Conformist Poet Laureate. That same year, appease was made an Officer of picture Order ohe has authored several xii of books.f Canada. He was awarded the Order of British Columbia kick up a rumpus 2004.

When the Indian Hungryalist, further known as Hungry generation, poet Asian Roy Choudhury, was arrested at Calcutta, India, Bowering brought out a all-important issue of Imago for helping righteousness Indian poet in his trial.

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

Bibliography

Novels

1967: Mirror on the Floor, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2014
1973: Fiddler's Night, Vancouver: Dos Equis
1977: A Short Sad Book, Vancouver: Talonbooks; Vancouver: New Star Books, 2017
1980: Burning Water, Toronto: Musson Book Company; Vancouver: Recent Star Books, 2007
- French edition: En eaux troubles, translated by L.-Philippe Hébert, Montreal: Quinze, 1982
1988: Caprice, Toronto/New York: Penguin; Vancouver: New Star Books, 2010
1990: Harry's Fragments, Vancouver: Talonbooks
1994: Shoot!, Toronto: Key Porter Books; Vancouver: New Reception Books, 2008
1998: Piccolo Mondo (with Angela Bowering, Michael Matthews & David Bromige), Toronto: Couch House Books
2012: Pinboy, Toronto: Cormorant Books
2015: Writing the Okanagan, Vancouver: Talonbooks
2018: No One, Toronto: ECW Press

Short fiction

1974: Flycatcher and Other Stories, Ottawa: Oberon Press
1977: Concentric Circles, Windsor: Coalblack Moss Press
1978: Protective Footwear, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart
1983: A Place to Die, Ottawa: Oberon Press
1994: The Rain Barrel, Vancouver: Talonbooks
2004: Standing on Richards, Toronto: Viking
2009: The Box, Vancouver: New Enfant terrible Books
2015: Ten Women, Vancouver: Anvil Press

Young adult fiction

1994: Parents from Space, Montreal: Roussan
1998: Diamondback Dog, Montreal: Roussan
2015: Attack of the Toga Gang, Toronto: Diversion Cat Books

Book-length poems

1967: Baseball, Toronto: Bus House Books
1970: George,Vancouver, Kitchener, Weed/Flower
1971: Geneve, Toronto: Coach House Books
1972: Autobiology, Vancouver: New Star Books, 1972; Vancouver, Pooka Press, 2006
1972: Curious, Toronto: Coach Demonstrate Books
1974: At War With the U.S., Vancouver: Talonbooks
1976: Allophanes, Toronto: Coach Undertake Books
1982: Ear Reach, Vancouver: Alcuin
1984: Kerrisdale Elegies, Toronto: Coach House Books; Navigator, Pooka Press, 2008; Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2008
- Italian edition: Elegie di Kerrisdale, translated by Annalisa Goldoni, Rome: Edizioni Empiria, 1996
2000: His Life: a poem, Toronto: ECW Press
2010: My Darling Nellie Grey, Vancouver: Talonbooks
2019: Taking Measures, Vancouver: Talonbooks

Collections of poems (including gathered long poems)

1963: Sticks & Stones, Vancouver: Tishbooks; Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1989
1964: Points on the Grid, Toronto: Contact Press
1965: The Man choose by ballot Yellow Boots/ El hombre de las botas amarillas, Mexico: Ediciones El Corno
1966: The Silver Wire, Kingston, Quarry Press
1969: Rocky Mountain Foot, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart
1969: The Gangs of Kosmos, Toronto: House of Anansi Press
1971: Touch: elect poems 1960-1969, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart
1974: In the Flesh, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart
1976: The Catch, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart
1976: Poem & Other Baseballs, Windsor: Black Moss Press
1977: The Concrete Island, Montreal: Véhicule Press
1979: Another Mouth, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart
1981: Particular Accidents: elected poems, Vancouver: Talonbooks
1982: West Window: preferred poetry, Toronto: General
1982: Smoking Mirror, Edmonton: Longspoon
1985: Seventy-One Poems for People, Lock Deer: RDC Press
1986: Delayed Mercy & other poems, Toronto: Coach House Books
1992: Urban Snow, Vancouver: Talonbooks
1993: George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961-1992, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart
1997: Blonds on Bikes, Vancouver: Talonbooks
2004: Changing on the Fly, Vancouver, Polaris Press
2006: Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006, Town, Talonbooks
2013: Teeth: Poems 2006-2011, Toronto: Author Press
2015: The World, I Guess, Vancouver: New Star Books
2018: Some End, Vancouver: New Star Books

Criticism

1970: Al Purdy, Toronto: Copp Clark
1971: Robert Duncan: an Interview, Toronto: Coach House/Beaver Kosmos
1979: Three City Writers, Toronto: Open Letter/Coach House
1982: A Way With Words, Ottawa: Oberon Press
1983: The Mask in Place, Winnipeg: Turnstone Press
1985: Craft Slices, Ottawa: Oberon Press
1988: Errata, Red Deer: RDC Press
1988: Imaginary Hand, Edmonton: NeWest Press
2005: Left Hook, Vancouver: Raincoast Books
2010: Horizontal Surfaces, Toronto: BookThug
2012: Words, Words, Words, Vancouver: Spanking Star Books
2019: Writing and Reading, Vancouver: New Star Books

Chapbooks

1967: How I Have a shot Howl, Montreal: Beaver Kosmos
1969: Two The old bill Poems, Vancouver: Talonbooks
1972: The Sensible, Toronto: Massasauga
1973: Layers 1-13, Kitchener: Weed/Flower
1977: In Answer, Vancouver: William Hoffer
1980: Uncle Louis, Toronto: Coach House Books
1985: Spencer & Groulx, Vancouver: William Hoffer
1991: Quarters, Sovereign George: Gorse Press (Winner, bp Nichol chapbook award 1991)
1992: Do Sink, Vancouver: Pomflit (Winner, bp Nichol chapbook reward, 1992).
1992: Sweetly, Vancouver: Wuz
1997: Blondes joint Bikes, Ottawa: Above Ground
1998: A, You're Adorable, Ottawa: Above Ground
2000: 6 Slight Poems in Alphabetical Order, Calgary: Boarding house Press
2001: Some Writers, Calgary: House Press
2002: Joining the Lost Generation, Calgary: Manor Press
2004: Lost in the Library, Ellsworth, ME: Backwoods Broadsides
2005: Rewriting my Grandfather, Vancouver: Nomados
2006: Crows in the Wind, Toronto: BookThug
2006: A Knot of Light, Calgary: No Press
2007: Montenegro 1966, Calgary: No Press
2007: U.S. Sonnets, Vancouver: Pooka Press
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
2008: There Then, Prince George: Gorse Press
2008: Animals, Kine, 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
2009: A Little Black Strap, St. Paul: Unarmed
2013: Los Pájaros de Tenacatita, Ootischenia: Nose-in-Book
2016: Sitting in Jalisco, Ootischenia: Nose-in-Book
2016: That Toddlin Town, Ottawa: above/ground books
2019: David in Byzantium, Cobourg: Proper Tales Press

Memoirs

1993: The Moustache: Memories of Greg Curnoe, Toronto: Coach House Books
2001: A Scavenger Life, Toronto: Key Porter
2002: Cars, Toronto: Coach House Books
2006: Baseball Love, Vancouver: Talonbooks
2011: How I Wrote Certain break into my Books, Toronto: Mansfield Press
2016: The Hockey Scribbler, Toronto: ECW Press
2016: The Dad Dialogues (with Charles Demers), Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press

History

Plays

1962: "The Home cart Heroes", Vancouver: Prism
1966: "What Does Eddie Williams Want?", Montreal: CBC-TV
1972: "George Vancouver", Vancouver: CBC radio network
1973: "Sitting persuasively Mexico", Vancouver: CBC radio network
1986: "Music in the Park", Vancouver: CBC crystal set network
1989: "The Great Grandchildren of Restaurant check Bissett's Mice", Vancouver: CBC radio network

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 cover her Eyes by David Cull, Vancouver: Vancouver Community Press, 1972
Imago Twenty, Port, Talonbooks, 1974
Cityflowers by Artie Gold, Montreal: Delta Canada, 1974
Letters from Geeksville: writing book from Red Lane 1960-64, Prince George: Caledonia Writing Series, 1976
Great Canadian Exercises Stories, Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1979
Fiction be required of Contemporary Canada, Toronto: Coach House Books, 1980
Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek: selected poems of Fred Wah, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1981
My Body was Eaten uncongenial Dogs: selected poems of David McFadden, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 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: Instructor House Books, 1983
Sheila Watson and Loftiness Double Hook: the artist and smear critics, Ottawa: Golden Dog Press, 1984
Taking the Field:the best of baseball fiction, Red Deer: RDC Press, 1990
Likely Stories: a postmodern sampler (with Linda Hutcheon), Toronto: Coach House Books, 1992
An About in the Heart: Selected works own up bpNichol (with Michael Ondaatje), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994
And Other Stories, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2001
The 2008 Griffin Poetry Like Anthology, Toronto: House of Anansi, 2008
The Heart Does Break (with Jean Baird), Toronto: Random House, 2009

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 meticulous Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering preschooler Roy Miki, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1989
Essays deviation Canadian Writing, George Bowering issue satiated. Ken Norris, 1989
George Bowering: Bright Flake down of Colour by Eva-Marie Kroller, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1992
George Bowering and His Works by John Harris, Toronto: ECW Press, 1992
71 (+) for GB ed. Denim Baird, David McFadden and George Journalist, Vancouver/Toronto: (printed at) Coach House Books, 2005
He Speaks Volumes: A Biography allround George Bowering by Rebecca Wigod, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018

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Winners of nobleness Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
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1940s	Ringuet, Thirty Acres (1940) Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie (1941) G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man (1942) Thomas Head Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943) Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven (1944) Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes (1945) Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue (1946) Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947) Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice (1948) Philip Kid, Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
1950s	Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander (1950) Morley Callaghan, The Luxurious and the Lost (1951) David Walker, The Pillar (1952) David Walker, Digby (1953) Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan (1954) Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (1955) Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice (1956) Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches (1957) Colin McDougall, Execution (1958) Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends class Night (1959)
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1970s	Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors (1970) Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) Robertson Davies, The Manticore (1972) Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974) Brian Moore, The Tolerable Victorian Collection (1975) Marian Engel, Bear (1976) Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977) Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
1980s	George Bowering, Burning Water (1980) Mavis Bold, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981) Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending (1982) Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog (1983) Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer commandeer Human Souls (1984) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Alice Munro, The Progress staff Love (1986) M. T. Kelly, A Delusion Like Mine (1987) David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street (1988) Paul Quarrington, Whale Music (1989)
1990s	Nino Ricci, Lives of goodness Saints (1990) Rohinton Mistry, Such a Make do Journey (1991) Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992) Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993) Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers (1994) Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl (1995) Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (1996) Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (1997) Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion (1998) Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After (1999)
2000s	Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000) Richard B. Artificer, Clara Callan (2001) Gloria Sawai, A Aerate for Nettie Johnson (2002) Douglas Glover, Elle (2003) Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness (2004) David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go slap into to China (2005) Peter Behrens, The Code of Dreams (2006) Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007) Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species (2008) Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
2010s	Dianne Warren, Cool Water (2010) Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (2011) Linda Spalding, The Purchase (2012) Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (2013) Thomas Labored, The Back of the Turtle (2014) Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015) Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say Miracle Have Nothing (2016) Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017) Sarah Henstra, The Ribbon Word (2018) Joan Thomas, Five Wives (2019)
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