Background

Tim Bowling was born in 1964, in Vancouver, Canada.

Education

Tim Bowling received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Alberta.

Career

Tim Bowling has published numerous poetry collections, including Low Water Slack, Dying Scarlet, Darkness and Silence, The Witness Ghost and The Memory Orchard and his Selected Poems.

Tim still works each summer as a deckhand on a fishing boat on the Fraser River, in Bowling’s native British Columbia. Life among his seagoing countrymen colors much of the author’s work, including the novel The Downriver Drift and the poetry collection Low Water Slack.

Tim is also a contributor to anthologies, including Breathing Fire: Canada ’s New Poets, Fiddlehead Gold, and Vintage.

Bowling was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Achievements

• Tim Bowling, a respected Canadian author, has been published in top literary journals. He is the author of 10 collections of poetry, two works of nonfiction, and four novels. His memoir The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture, was shortlisted for the Nereus Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize.

Works

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  • Darkness and Silence

    (Darkness and Silence moves from the lush riverscape of BC...)

    2001
  • Duende of Tetherball

    (The Duende of Tetherball fearlessly ransacks the scrutini...)

    2016
  • The Dark Set: New Tenderman Poems

    (In The Dark Set, the Tenderman is a character from anothe...)

    2019
  • Selected Poems

    (With Selected Poems, Tim Bowling has gathered together hi...)

    2013
  • Tenderman

    (With these opening words, accomplished poet Tim Bowling o...)

    2011
  • The Heavy Bear

    (In Tim Bowling's fifth novel, The Heavy Bear, the main ch...)

    2017
  • Dying Scarlet

    (The poems in this collection, inspired by Keats' misspell...)

    1997
  • Low Water Slack

    (At once historical and intensely personal, Low Water Slac...)

    1995
  • The Witness Ghost

    (Bowling has written one of the most intense and loving st...)

    2003
  • The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture

    (The Lost Coast is a lyrical, impassioned lament for the h...)

    2007
  • The Book Collector and Other Poems

    (Tim Bowling's startling and powerful eighth collection of...)

    2009
  • The History of Second Baptist Church: 150th Anniversary

    (The History of Second Baptist Church of Bowling Green, Mi...)

    2015
  • The Memory Orchard

    (This is poetry of loss and fury, of awe and celebration, ...)

    2004
  • Nutritional Support for Adults and Children

    (Ordinary doctors and nurses on hospital wards often lack ...)

    2004
  • The Master

    (The story re-imagines the infamous Hatton Garden heist in...)

    2019
  • The Tinsmith 2012
  • Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief 2014
  • In the Suicide's Library: A Book Lover's Journey 2010
  • The Bone Sharps 2007
  • Fathom 2006
  • Writing the Terrain: Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets 2005
  • Where the Words Come From 2002
  • The Thin Smoke of the Heart 2000
  • The Paperboy's Winter 2003
  • Between Rainfalls 2010
  • The Annotated Bee and Me 2010
  • Downriver Drift 2000
  • Refrain for Rental Boat 4 2008