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George Bowering




Bowering is one of a group of poets including Frank Davey , Fred Wah , Jamie Reid (not the British situationist, the Canadian poet), and David Dawson who were together at the University Of British Columbia in the 1950s . There they founded the journal ''Tish''. He lives in Vancouver , British Columbia and recently retired from teaching at Simon Fraser University . 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 .


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Poetry



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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

  • ''Cars'' - 2002

  • ''Stone Country'' - 2003

  • ''Left Hook: A Sideways Look at Canadian Writing'' - 2005

  • ''Baseball Love'' - 2006



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