George Bowering, Contributor - Banff Centre Press

George Bowering, Contributor
Banff Centre Press

George Bowering was born in 1936 in Penticton, B.C. He attended Victoria College in Victoria, B.C., the University of British Columbia, and the University of Western Ontario. He received an M.A. from UBC in 1963. Among numerous other awards, he won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 1969 for The Gangs of Kosmos (House of Anansi 1969) and Rocky Mountain Foot (McClelland & Stewart 1969). He won the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in 1980 for his novel Burning Water (General 1980) and was shortlisted for poetry in 2000. He won the bp Nichol Chapbook Award for poetry in 1991 and 1992 and the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Poetry in 1993.

Contributor to:
First Chapter (contributor)

Novels:
Mirror on the Floor, McClelland & Stewart, 1967.
A Short Sad Book, Talonbooks, 1977.
Burning Water, General, 1980.
En eaux troubles, Quinze, 1982. (Transl. L.-Philippe HÈbert.)
Caprice, Viking/Penguin, 1987.
Harry's Fragments, Coach House, 1990.
Shoot!, Key Porter, 1994.
Parents From Space, Roussan, 1994.
Piccolo Mondo, Coach House Books, 1998 (collaboration).
Diamondback Dog, Roussan, 1998.

Stories:
Flycatcher & Other Stories, Oberon, 1974.
Concentric Circles, Black Moss, 1977.
Protective Footwear, M&S, 1978.
A Place to Die, Oberon, 1983.
The Rain Barrel, Talonbooks, 1994.

Booklength Poems:
Sitting in Mexico, Beaver Kosmos, 1965.
Baseball, Coach House, 1967.
George Vancouver, Weed/Flower, 1970.
Geneve, Coach House, 1971.
Autobiology, New Star, 1972.
Curious, Coach House, 1973.
At War With the U.S., Talon, 1974.
Allophanes, Coach House, 1976.
Ear Reach, Alcuin, 1982,
Kerrisdale Elegies, Coach House, 1984.
Elegie di Kerrisdale, Edizioni Empiria, 1996. (Transl. Annalisa Goldoni.)
His Life: A Poem, ECW, 2000.

Collections of Poems (including gathered long poems):
Sticks & Stones, Tishbooks, 1963.
Points on the Grid, Contact Press, 1964.
The Man in Yellow Boots/ El hombre de las botas amarillas, Ediciones El Corno, 1965.
The Silver Wire, Quarry, 1966.
Rocky Mountain Foot, M&S, 1969.
The Gangs of Kosmos, House of Anansi, 1969.
Touch: Selected Poems 1960-1969, M&S, 1971.
In the Flesh, M&S, 1974.
The Catch, M&S, 1976.
Poem & Other Baseballs, Black Moss, 1976.
The Concrete Island, Vehicule, 1977.
Another Mouth, M&S, 1979.
Particular Accidents: Selected Poems, Talon, 1981.
West Window: Selected Poetry, General, 1982.
Smoking Mirror, Longspoon, 1982.
Seventy-One Poems for People, Red Deer, 1985.
Delayed Mercy & Other Poems, Coach House, 1986.
Sticks & Stones, Talonbooks, 1989.
Urban Snow, Talonbooks, 1992.
George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961-1992, McClelland & Stewart, 1993.
Blonds on Bikes, Talonbooks, 1997.
Poémes et autres baseballs, Tryptique, 1999 (collaboration).

Criticism:
Al Purdy, Copp Clark, 1970.
Three Vancouver Writers, Open Letter/Coach House, 1979.
A Way with Words, Oberon, 1982.
The Mask in Place, Turnstone Press, 1983.
Craft Slices, Oberon, 1985.
Errata, Reed Deer, 1988.
Imaginary Hand, NeWest, 1988.

Chapbooks:
How I Hear Howl, Beaver Kosmos, 1967.
Two Police Poems, Talon, 1969.
The Sensible, Massasauga, 1972.
Layers 1-13, Weed/Flower, 1973.
In Answer, William Hoffer, 1977.
Uncle Louis, Coach House, 1980.
Spencer & Groulx, William Hoffer, 1985.
Quarters, Gorse, 1991.
Do Sink, Pomflit, 1992.
Sweetly, Wuz, 1992.
Blondes on Bikes, Above Ground, 1997.
A, You're Adorable, Above Ground, 1998.
6 Little Poems in Alphabetical Order, House Press, 2000.
Memoirs:
The Moustache: Remembering Greg Curnoe, Coach House, 1993.