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George Bowering

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Gender Male
Age 88
Date of birth December 1,1935
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Penticton
Canada
Spouse Jean Baird
Job Poet
Author
Historian
Novelist
Awards Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama
Official site georgebowering.com
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A short sad book
Burning Water
Kerrisdale elegies
Some End / West Broadway
Changing on the Fly
Vermeer's Light
Pinboy: A Memoir
Baseball Love
Writing the Okanagan
The World, I Guess: Poems
Shoot!
A magpie life
Delayed mercy
My Darling Nellie Grey
Horizontal Surfaces
Bowering's B. C.
Mirror on the floor
Blonds on bikes
His Life: A Poem
Stone country
Caprice
Standing on Richards
The Moustache
The Hockey Scribbler
Egotists and autocrats
Craft slices
The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning
Harry's fragments
Urban snow
Baseball
Imaginary hand
Left hook
George Bowering selected
Seventy-one poems for people
Attack of the Toga Gang
Taking the Field: The Best of Baseball Fiction
Selected Poems: Particular Accidents
A way with words
The mask in place
How I Wrote Certain of My Books
Another mouth
Poem and other baseballs
Parents from space
The Diamond Alphabet: Baseball in Shorts
Diamondback dog
Flycatcher & other stories
No One
Allophanes
Words, Words, Words: Essays and Memoirs
At war with the U. S
Sticks & stones
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George Harry Bowering, OC OBC is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher.

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