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Bowering, George Harry was born on December 1, 1936 in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. Son of Ewart Harry and Pearl Patricia (Brinson) Bowering.
(Fiction. MIRROR ON THE FLOOR was first published in 1967 ...)
Fiction. MIRROR ON THE FLOOR was first published in 1967 by McClelland and Stewart, the first novel from a young writer named George Bowering. Now with over 100 publications to his credit, we are proud to be reissuing Bowering's debut novel. Set in Vancouver, the novel focuses on one summer in the life of UBC graduate student Bob Small and his roommate, George Delsing, as they study, smoke cigarettes, endure tedious summer jobs, joust one another with philosophical banter and literary repartee, and strike out on near nightly adventures in Small's "poor old over- traveled yellow Morris Minor" to the pubs and late-night diners of East Hastings and Main Street. They spend much of their time carousing and engaging in conversation with the old-timers, retired seamen, dockworkers, and unemployed loggers. And it is on one such night that Bob Small encounters a mysterious and troubled young woman outside the city lock-up. Her name is Andrea and he can't seem to shake—or understand—the inexplicable attraction he feels for her; and from this night on, like an apparition, Andrea appears everywhere: the library, the coffee houses, the bars, the street, and Bob Small is slowly and inevitably pulled into her orbit, an orbit that spins on a tragic and ever- tightening inward coil. MIRROR ON THE FLOOR vividly evokes the Vancouver of the mid-to- late 60s, a Vancouver where neon signs still shimmered on the rain- soaked streets of the Downtown Eastside and Granville Street bustled with movie-goers.
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(George Bowering is one of the country's most respected an...)
George Bowering is one of the country's most respected and beloved authors. In his remarkable career, he has written more than forty books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, winning the Governor-General's Award twice. A Magpie Life is a memoir of a literary life. It is vintage Bowering - funny, self-deprecating and perceptive - and as wide-ranging as his interests. And in true Bowering style, it delights in surprising the reader with profound understanding carefully cloaked by wry humour. Dispensing with the details of his life in the opening "Alphabiography," a witty and moving account in which the important aspects of his life are detailed alphabetically, Bowering settles down to write the story of the literary influences on his life and writing. The reader is treated to a wonderful portrait of the renegade young hipsters who founded the landmark literary magazine Tish in Vancouver in the early 60s; to insights into the structure and style of the poets who influenced his own writing; and to what it was like to carve a writing life from the western edge of the Canadian literary renaissance. A Magpie Life will forever ruin Bowering's carefully-crafted image as the western rube. It's funny and smart and one of the best literary memoirs you'll read. (2001)
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(In her quest to return a stray diamondback dog to the fut...)
In her quest to return a stray diamondback dog to the future, Coriander, a.k.a. Feet, leads the zany Parents from Space foursome into an exploration of time's dimensions. Along the way, George Bowering slips in a tour of B.C. history and a hilarious spoof on the role of the muse in poetry and science.
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( Blonds on Bikes is George Bowering’s first book of poet...)
Blonds on Bikes is George Bowering’s first book of poetry since Urban Snow was published by Talonbooks in 1992. Characteristic of Bowering’s other work, this book is largely made up of sequences. The longest one, the title poem, is a composition of daily riffs during an autumn in Denmark and Italy. Pictures” is an album of verbal portraits by a husband and wife who see differently. There is a series of tributes to other writers on special occasions. Sometimes a short lyric sticks its head up. Whatever the form, Bowering is more interested in sound than he is in ground, more interested in wit than he is in shovels. If you read carefully, you might get a little scared. If you want one of the last great masters who can use language to impose an individual yet universal order on the perceived world,” dont get your hopes up. Look out for air & the knives in the air
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Bowering, George Harry was born on December 1, 1936 in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. Son of Ewart Harry and Pearl Patricia (Brinson) Bowering.
Student, Victoria College, 1953—1954. Bachelor, University British Columbia, 1960. Master of Arts, University British Columbia, 1963.
Postgraduate, University Western Ontario, 1966—1967.
Assistant professor American literature University Calgary, Canada, 1963-1966. Writer in residence Sir George Williams University, Montreal, 1967-1968, assistant professor, 1968-1971. Professor Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, 1972—2001.
Poet laureate of Canada.
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Served with Royal Canadian Air Force, 1954-1957. Member of Association Canada television and Radio Artists.
Married Angela May Luoma, December 14, 1962. 1 daughter, Thea Claire.