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Essays

by George Bowering ...

George Bowering has been provoking and inspiring writers and readers for half a century. While he may be better known for his poetry and fiction, the essay holds an equally important place in his work.Writing and Reading includes discussions of writers (ranging from Michael Ondaatje and Alice Munro to Oana Avasilichioei and Robert Kroetsch), difficult poetry and close reading (from Gerard Manley ... Read more

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George Bowering has been provoking and inspiring writers and readers for half a century. While he may be better known for his poetry and fiction, the essay holds an equally important place in his work.Writing and Reading includes discussions of writers (ranging from Michael Ondaatje and Alice Munro to Oana Avasilichioei and Robert Kroetsch), difficult poetry and close reading (from Gerard Manley
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Shoot!

by George Bowering ...

Series series Bowering's BC History Trilogy
Cowboys and Indians, sometimes one and the same, occupy the rugged landscape of the late nineteenth-century British Columbia interior in George Bowering's Shoot! Meet the McLean Gang — brothers Allan, Charlie, and Archie — and their sidekick Alex Hare. Halfbreeds who grew up bitter outcasts, rejected by both white and Indian worlds, they roam the ranch country around Kamloops on a wild spree of ... Read more

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Cowboys and Indians, sometimes one and the same, occupy the rugged landscape of the late nineteenth-century British Columbia interior in George Bowering's Shoot! Meet the McLean Gang — brothers Allan, Charlie, and Archie — and their sidekick Alex Hare. Halfbreeds who grew up bitter outcasts, rejected by both white and Indian worlds, they roam the ranch country around Kamloops on a wild spree of
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Caprice

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Series series Bowering's BC History Trilogy
It's the mid 1890s in Kamloops, British Columbia. Two men argue over a bottle of whisky and in the struggle Frank Spencer, an American outlaw-turned-farmhand, kills Pete Foster, a French-Canadian and fellow farmhand.Enter Caprice: a vision and a brain. Almost six feet tall, with flaming red hair and long legs, and toting a lethal bullwhip, she sets out to avenge her brother's murder. Travelling ... Read more

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It's the mid 1890s in Kamloops, British Columbia. Two men argue over a bottle of whisky and in the struggle Frank Spencer, an American outlaw-turned-farmhand, kills Pete Foster, a French-Canadian and fellow farmhand.Enter Caprice: a vision and a brain. Almost six feet tall, with flaming red hair and long legs, and toting a lethal bullwhip, she sets out to avenge her brother's murder. Travelling
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Soft Zipper

Object, Food, Rooms

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With an introduction by Lisa Robertson"There is no there there" Gertrude Stein's famous phrase about the Oakland she grew up in, applies to the Oliver, BC of George Bowering's youth. What is to be found there, as Stein demonstrated, are objects, and rooms, and food.George Bowering's newest book delights in the thing-iness of memory. Understanding himself as an object among objects, Bowering ... Read more

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With an introduction by Lisa Robertson"There is no there there" Gertrude Stein's famous phrase about the Oakland she grew up in, applies to the Oliver, BC of George Bowering's youth. What is to be found there, as Stein demonstrated, are objects, and rooms, and food.George Bowering's newest book delights in the thing-iness of memory. Understanding himself as an object among objects, Bowering
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The Dad Dialogues

A Correspondence on Fatherhood (and the Universe)

by George Bowering, Charles Demers ...

George Bowering: George Bowering is a novelist, poet, editor, professor, and historian; at age 80, has written more than 80 books, including poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography, and young-adult fiction. He was the first Poet Laureate of Canada, and has twice won the Governor General’s Literary Award in Canada.Charles Demers: Charles Demers is an author, stand-up comedian, and creative ... Read more

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George Bowering: George Bowering is a novelist, poet, editor, professor, and historian; at age 80, has written more than 80 books, including poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography, and young-adult fiction. He was the first Poet Laureate of Canada, and has twice won the Governor General’s Literary Award in Canada.Charles Demers: Charles Demers is an author, stand-up comedian, and creative
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The Hockey Scribbler

by George Bowering ...

Hockey forms the backdrop of our lives. For many Canadians, the big moments — births, deaths, marriages, moves — are all mixed up with the wins and losses of our teams. The voices of Hockey Night in Canada sportscasters are our soundtrack, and visions of skates scraping across the ice lull us to sleep.George Bowering, Canada’s former poet laureate, is no different. Growing up in Oliver, BC, ... Read more

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Hockey forms the backdrop of our lives. For many Canadians, the big moments — births, deaths, marriages, moves — are all mixed up with the wins and losses of our teams. The voices of Hockey Night in Canada sportscasters are our soundtrack, and visions of skates scraping across the ice lull us to sleep.George Bowering, Canada’s former poet laureate, is no different. Growing up in Oliver, BC,
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10 Women

by George Bowering ...

“Literary escapades enlighten and entertain in this boundary-pushing collection.” (Foreword Reviews)“The maestro is at it again” (The Vancouver Sun)Ten Women is a new collection of short fiction from one of Canada’s preeminent writers. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom the author may or may not have had either an intimate and/or a meaningful relationship. You can’t ... Read more

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“Literary escapades enlighten and entertain in this boundary-pushing collection.” (Foreword Reviews)“The maestro is at it again” (The Vancouver Sun)Ten Women is a new collection of short fiction from one of Canada’s preeminent writers. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom the author may or may not have had either an intimate and/or a meaningful relationship. You can’t
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Baseball Love

by George Bowering ...

Having written books in practically every genre, George Bowering is often introduced as someone who adores baseball, yet ironically he did not begin this book about the game until he was appointed Canada’s first Poet Laureate for 2002–04. This picaresque memoir of a road trip with his fiancée through the storied ballparks of a poet’s youthful dreams is built on the bargain of fiction—that the ... Read more

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Having written books in practically every genre, George Bowering is often introduced as someone who adores baseball, yet ironically he did not begin this book about the game until he was appointed Canada’s first Poet Laureate for 2002–04. This picaresque memoir of a road trip with his fiancée through the storied ballparks of a poet’s youthful dreams is built on the bargain of fiction—that the
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Barefoot Gringo

by George Bowering ...

Bringing a seasoned and highly regarded Canadian voice to the travel writing tradition, George Bowering unveils a deep love of life, food, and all things Mexico. Drawing on his time spent as a foreigner in Latin America, Bowering traces his footsteps to linger on the joy found in the little things.Barefoot Gringo, set against a Mexican backdrop, ventures beyond travel and into engaging discussions ... Read more

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Bringing a seasoned and highly regarded Canadian voice to the travel writing tradition, George Bowering unveils a deep love of life, food, and all things Mexico. Drawing on his time spent as a foreigner in Latin America, Bowering traces his footsteps to linger on the joy found in the little things.Barefoot Gringo, set against a Mexican backdrop, ventures beyond travel and into engaging discussions
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Burning Water

by George Bowering ...

Series series Bowering's BC History Trilogy
First published in 1980 to high acclaim, Burning Water won a Governor General's Award for fiction that year. A rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouver's search for the Northwest Passage, the book has over its career been mentioned in recommended lists of postmodern fiction, BC historical fiction, gay fiction and humour. This gives you some idea of the scope of what has been called Bowering's ... Read more

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First published in 1980 to high acclaim, Burning Water won a Governor General's Award for fiction that year. A rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouver's search for the Northwest Passage, the book has over its career been mentioned in recommended lists of postmodern fiction, BC historical fiction, gay fiction and humour. This gives you some idea of the scope of what has been called Bowering's
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Mirror on the Floor

by George Bowering ...

Reissued as part of Anvil Press's Lost BC Literature seriesSet in Vancouver in the mid-1960s, Mirror on the Floor focuses on one summer in the life of UBC grad student Bob Small and his roommate, George Delsing.They spend their time carousing the downtown eastside and engaging in conversations with the old-timers—dockworkers, unemployed loggers, and retired seamen. They study, smoke cigarettes, ... Read more

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Reissued as part of Anvil Press's Lost BC Literature seriesSet in Vancouver in the mid-1960s, Mirror on the Floor focuses on one summer in the life of UBC grad student Bob Small and his roommate, George Delsing.They spend their time carousing the downtown eastside and engaging in conversations with the old-timers—dockworkers, unemployed loggers, and retired seamen. They study, smoke cigarettes,
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Slavery and The Civil War

What Your History Teacher Didn’t Tell You

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NOTHING IN AMERICAN HISTORY has ever equaled the death and destruction of the intense and bloody warfare of 1861-1865 between Americans. Given the size of the population at the time, that period is unmatched in the scale of military mobilization, in the destruction of property on our own soil, and in the casualties, not only of soldiers but of Southern civilians, black and white.For later ... Read more

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NOTHING IN AMERICAN HISTORY has ever equaled the death and destruction of the intense and bloody warfare of 1861-1865 between Americans. Given the size of the population at the time, that period is unmatched in the scale of military mobilization, in the destruction of property on our own soil, and in the casualties, not only of soldiers but of Southern civilians, black and white.For later
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