George Bowering

George Bowering, Canada’s first Poet Laureate, was born in the Okanagan Valley.After serving as an aerial photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bowering earned a BA in English and an MA in history at the University of British Columbia, where he became one of the co-founders of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. He has taught literature at the University of Calgary, the University of Western Ontario, and Simon Fraser University, and he continues to act as a Canadian literary ambassador at international conferences and readings.A distinguished novelist, poet, editor, professor, historian, and tireless supporter of fellow writers, Bowering has authored more than eighty books, including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography, and youth fiction. His writing has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Romanian.Bowering has twice won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s top literary prize. In 2019 he received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.

Books by George Bowering

Good Morning Poems

Could Be

Soft Zipper

Writing and Reading

Taking Measures

if wants to be the same as is

No One

Some End / West Broadway

A Short Sad Book

The Dad Dialogues

Writing the Okanagan

10 Women

Attack of the Toga Gang

The World, I Guess

Pinboy

Mirror on the Floor

Teeth

Words, Words, Words

How I wrote certain of my books

The Diamond Alphabet

The Heart Does Break

Caprice

Horizontal Surfaces

My Darling Nellie Grey

The Box

Swamp Angel

Shoot!

The Griffin Poetry Prize 2008 Anthology

Kerrisdale Elegies

Burning Water

Vermeer's Light

Baseball Love

Writing the Terrain

Baseball

Cars

A Magpie Life

And Other Stories

His Life: A Poem

Piccolo Mondo

Blonds on Bikes

The Rain Barrel

The Moustache

Harry's Fragments

Sticks & Stones