George Harry Bowering (born 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He 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 B.C. and recently retired from teaching at Simon Fraser University. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Frank Davey (born April 19, 1940) is a Canadian poet and scholar. ... Jamie Reid (born 1947) is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the situationist movement. ... The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands, a suburb directly adjoining Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... Members of Parliament Libby Davies, Ujjal Dosanjh, David Emerson, Hedy Fry, Stephen Owen Members of the Legislative Assembly Gordon Campbell, David Chudnovsky, Adrian Dix, Colin Hansen, Jenny Kwan, Lorne Mayencourt, Wally Oppal, Gregor Robertson, Shane Simpson, Carole Taylor Mayor Larry Campbell Governing Body Vancouver City Council Latitude: Longitude: 49°16... Simon Fraser University (SFU) is located in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia. ...

Works

Poetry

• Points on the Grid - 1964
• Sticks and Stones - 1964
• The Silver Wire - 1966
• Rocky Mountain Foot - 1968
• The Gangs of Kosmos - 1969 (winner of the 1969 Governor General's Award for Poetry)
• Touch - 1971
• Geneve - 1971
• Curious - 1973
• In the Flesh - 1974
• The Catch - 1976
• Allophanes - 1976
• The Concrete Island: Montreal Poems - 1977
• Another Mouth - 1979
• The Mask In Place - 1982
• West Window - 1982
• Smoking Mirror 1982
• Kerrisdale Ellegies - 1984
• Seventy-One Poems for People - 1985
• Delayed Mercy - 1986
• Urban Snow - 1992
• Parents from Space - 1994
• Blondes on Bikes - 1997
• Diamondback Dog - 1998
• His Life - 2000 (Nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Changing on the Fly - 2004 (shortlisted for the 2005 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)

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Fiction

• Mirror on the Floor - 1967
• Autobiology - 1972
• Flycatcher and Other Stories - 1974
• A Short Sad Book - 1977
• Concentric Circles - 1977
• Protective Footwear - 1978
• Burning Water - 1980 (winner of the 1980 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
• A Place to Die - 1983
• Caprice - 1988
• Harry's Fragments - 1990
• Shoot! - 1994
• The Rain Barrel - 1994

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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

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External links

• Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips