Writing the Okanagan
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George Bowering, Canada's first Parliamentary Poet Laureate, is a major Canadian literary figure and one of the country's most prolific authors, having written more than one hundred books, including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography, and youth fiction. His texts have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Romanian. A founder of the influential poetry journal TISH, Bowering went on to become a distinguished novelist, poet, editor, professor, and historian and a tireless supporter of fellow writers. He has twice won the Governor General's Literary Award, and has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the BC Book Prize, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Bowering is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has also been awarded the Order of British Columbia and the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. The George Bowering Collection and Reading Room at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections is scheduled to open in 2026.
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Delsing (1961)
Sticks & Stones (1962)
Radio Jazz
The Valley (1963)
Okanagan Storm
Locus Solus
Locus Primus
Patrol
Points on the Grid (1964)
Meta Morphosis
The Man in the Yellow Boots (1965)
Recharge
The Silver Wire (1966)
Driving to Kelowna
Baseball (1967)
2nd Inning
The Gangs of Kosmos (1967)
I Don't
Autobiology (1972)
The Raspberries
Some Deaths
Growing
Working and Wearing
The Lake
The First Two Towns
The Fourth Town
The Pool
The Joints
Flycatcher (1974)
Flycatcher
Time and Again
Apples
The Catch (1976)
Desert Elm II
Desert Elm V
Desert Elm VII
Desert Elm IX
Desert Elm X
Reconsiderations II
Protective Footwear (1978)
Re Union
West Window (1982)
Trucking Peaches
Smoking Mirror (1982)
Calm After
The Smooth Loper
At Fairview, Burnt to the Earth
A Way With Words (1982)
The Memory of Red Lane
A Place to Die (1983)
A Short Story
Caprice (1987)
Urban Snow (1991)
Grizzle Boy
Oliver Community Park 1948
The Rain Barrel (1994)
The Rain Barrel,
Blithe Trees
Rhode Island Red
The Creature
Shoot! (1994)
Bowering's B.C. (1996)
Rock Creek
En'owkin
Blonds on Bikes (1997)
Fall Bird
His Life, a Poem (2000)
Winter 1958
Winter 1963
Spring 1971
Winter 1978
Fall 1983
A Magpie Life (2001)
Ewart Bowering
Deking Dad
Poems for Men
Parashoot!
Cars (2002)
Standing on Richards (2004)
The Outhouse
Left Hook (2005)
The Autobiographings of Mourning Dove
Vermeer's Light (2006)
Unlikely Childhood Transculturation
Crows in the Wind (2006)
I Watched My Father
Baseball Love (2006)
Growing up in Baseball
Eggs in There (2007)
I remember going to church
I remember being in the back seat
Valley (2008)
The Box (2009)
An Experimental Story
Horizontal Surfaces (2010)
Lawrence
The Diamond Alphabet (2011)
Babe
Donkeys
Okanagan
Words, Words, Words (2012)
The Family Son
Pinboy (2012)
Teeth (2013)
Tie
Six Events to Make a Poet (2015)
The Giant Snowball
Someone's Horse