George Bowering
Contents
Bibliography
- Sticks & Stones (Tishbooks, 1963)
- Sitting in Mexico (Beaver Kosmos, 1965)
- The Silver Wire (Quarry Press, 1966)
- Baseball (Coach House Press, 1967)
- How I Hear Howl (Beaver Kosmos, 1967)
- The Gangs of Kosmos (Anansi Press, 1969)
- Rocky Mountain Foot (M&S, 1969)
- Two Police Poems (Talon, 1969)
- George, Vancouver (Weed/Flower, 1970)
- Geneve. Toronto (Coach House Press, 1971)
- Touch: selected poems 1960-1969 (M&S, 1971)
- Autobiology (New Star, 1972)
- The Sensible (Massasauga, 1972)
- Layers 1-13 (Weed/Flower, 1973)
- Curious. Toronto (Coach House Press, 1973)
- At War With the U.S. (Talon, 1974)
- In the Flesh (M&S, 1974)
- Allophanes (Coach House Press, 1976)
- The Catch (M&S, 1976)
- Poem & Other Baseballs (Black Moss, 1976)
- The Concrete Island (Vehicule Press, 1977)
- In Answer (William Hoffer, 1977)
- Another Mouth (M&S, 1979)
- Uncle Louis (Coach House Press, 1980)
- Particular Accidents: selected poems (Talon, 1981)
- A Way with Words (Oberon, 1982)
- Smoking Mirror (Longspoon, 1982)
- West Window: selected poetry (General, 1982)
- The Mask in Place (Turnstone Press, 1983)
- Kerrisdale Elegies (Coach House Press, 1984)
- Craft Slices (Oberon, 1985)
- Seventy-One Poems for People (Red Deer Press, 1985)
- Spencer & Groulx (William Hoffer, 1985)
- Delayed Mercy & other poems (Coach House Press, 1986)
- Errata (Red Deer Press, 1988)
- Imaginary Hand (NeWest Press, 1988)
- Sticks & Stones (Talonbooks, 1989)
- Quarters (Gorse Press, 1991)
- Do Sink (Pomflit, 1992)
- Sweetly (Wuz, 1992)
- Urban Snow (Talonbooks, 1992)
- George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961-1992 (M&S, 1993)
- Blonds on Bikes (Talonbooks, 1997)
- His Life (ECW Press, 2000)
- Changing on the Fly (Taincoast Books, 2004)
- Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006 (Talonbooks, 2006)
George Harry Bowering was part of the 1960's small press explosion in Canada and was the founding editor of the influential Vancouver poetry journal Tish. He is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer born in Penticton, British Columbia, in 1935. After serving as a photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bowering attended the University of British Columbia where he met Frank Davey, Fred Wah, David Dawson and James Reid, with whom he started Tish in 1961. Bowering was involved in the Vancouver Poetry Conference at the University of British Columbia in 1963, and founded Imago magazine in 1964. He is a contributing editor for Open Letter.
Bowering has taught at the University of Calgary, University of Western Ontario, and retired from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in 2001. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. That same year, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 2004.
