Tim Bowling

Tim Bowling has published numerous poetry collections, including Low Water Slack; Dying Scarlet (winner of the 1998 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for poetry); Darkness and Silence (winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry); The Witness Ghost; and The Memory Orchard (both nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award). He is also the author of three novels, Downriver Drift (Harbour), The Paperboy's Winter (Penguin) and The Bone Sharps (Gaspereau Press). His first book of non-fiction, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture (Nightwood Editions), was shortlisted for three literary awards: The Writers' Trust Nereus Non-Fiction Award, the BC Book Prizes' Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and the Alberta Literary Awards' Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction. The Lost Coast was also chosen as a 2008 Kiriyama Prize "Notable Book." Bowling is the recipient of the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, the National Poetry Award and the Orillia International Poetry Prize. Bowling was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. A native of the West Coast, he now lives in Edmonton Alberta. His latest collection of poetry is Tenderman (Nightwood), due out in fall 2011.

Books by Tim Bowling

Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand

In the Capital City of Autumn

The Marvels of Youth

The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird

Dark Set, The

The Heavy Bear

The Duende of Tetherball

The 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief

Selected Poems

The Tinsmith

Tenderman

In the Suicide’s Library

Nutrition and the Cancer Patient

The Book Collector

Refrain for Rental Boat #4

The Lost Coast

The Bone Sharps

Fathom

Writing the Terrain

Memory Orchard, The

The Witness Ghost

Where the Words Come From

Darkness and Silence

The Thin Smoke of the Heart

Downriver Drift

Dying Scarlet

Low Water Slack