Background
Trower was born in Street Leonards-on-Sea, England, and came to Canada in 1940.
Trower was born in Street Leonards-on-Sea, England, and came to Canada in 1940.
He worked for 22 years as a logger and has been writing professionally since 1971. Peter has published three novels to date, more than ten books of poetry and numerous articles One of his novels, Grogan"s Cafe (novel), is in pre-production for a film In 1976, Trower was the subject of a Canadian Broadcasting Company documentary titled Between the Sky and the Splinters, after his 1974 book of poetry of the same name.
Witches and Idiots Raincoast Chronicles Best Poems - 1967 West Coast Seen Kites and Cartwheels Listen Skookum Wa Wa Storm Warning 2 Raincoast Chronicles First Five A Government Job at Last Western Windows Who Owns the Earth Assault on the Worker Poems for a Snow-eyed Country Foreign Openers Going for Coffee Raincoast Chronicles Six/Ten British Columbia/A Celebration Soul of a City Vancouver Vancouver and its Writers Strong Voices Paperwork Oberon Vancouver Songs from the Wild Because You Loved Being a Stranger Witness to Wilderness Raincoast Chronicles Eleven Up Earle Birney - A Tribute (Chicago) Australia Prism International West Coast Review This Magazine Canadian Magazine Vancouver Magazine West World Equity Western Living Raincoast Chronicles The Georgia Straight Sunshine Coast News Business Logger B. C. Studies Way Stations (Selected ) The Counting House (Short stories centred on Oakalla Prison) Holy Herb - Master Cracksman (Semi-fictionalized biography) Rainbow"s End Horizons (Travel pieces) Booking In (Selected book and film reviews) Reluctant Brush Ape (Autobiographical logging pieces) The Gathering (Poems new, revised and uncollected).