George Bowering

Geogre Harry Bowering (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 toghether a 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
  • Flycather 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