Geogre Harry Bowering (
1935- ) is a prolific
Canadian novelist,
poet,
historian, and
biographer. He is one of a group of poets including
Frank Davey,
Fred Wah[?],
James Reid[?], and
David Dawson[?] who were toghether a the
University of British Columbia in the
1950s. There they founded the journal
Tish. He lives in
Vancouver B.C. and teaches at
Simon Fraser University.
Works:
- Fiction
- Mirror on the Floor - 1967
- Autobiology - 1972
- Flycather and other stories - 1974
- A Short Sad Book - 1977
- Concentric Circles - 1977
- Protective Footwear - 1978
- A Place to Die - 1983
- Caprice - 1988
- Harry's Fragments - 1990
- Burning Water - 1994
- Shoot! - 1994
- The Rain Barrel - 1994
- 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