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George Bowering

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born

January 01, 1935 in Penticton, Canada

gender

male

genre

Poetry

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After serving as a photographer in the RCAF, Bowering attended the University of British Columbia. There he met Frank Davey, Fred Wah, David Dawson and James Reid, with whom he started TISH. He later founded Imago and is a contributing editor for Open Letter. Bowering has taught at the University of Calgary, the University of Western Ontario, and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Bowering is well recognized as one of Canada's most prolific writers of poetry, short stories, and novels with over forty titles. Bowering won the 1969 Governor General's Literary Award in the poetry category for his works The Gangs of Kosmos and Rocky Mountain Foot. He won the GG for fiction in 1980 for his novel Burning Water. Beginning on November 8, 2002, G...more

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Books by George Bowering

Average rating: 3.56 · 270 ratings · 26 reviews · 69 distinct works

	Shoot! 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Changing on the Fly 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Burning Water 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Stone Country: An Unautorized History Of Canada 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Standing on Richards 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Egotists And Autocrats 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Caprice 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Kerrisdale Elegies 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	His Life: A Poem 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Left Hook 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating: