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:
- Poetry
- Points on the Grid - 1964
- Sticks and Stones - 1964
- The Silver Wire - 1966
- Rocky Mountain Foot - 1968
- The Gangs of Kosmos - 1969 (winner of the 1969 Governor General's Award for Poetry)
- Touch - 1971
- Geneve - 1971
- Curious - 1973
- In the Flesh - 1974
- The Catch - 1976
- Allophanes - 1976
- The Concrete Island: Montreal Poems - 1977
- Another Mouth - 1979
- The Mask In Place - 1982
- West Window - 1982
- Smoking Mirror 1982
- Kerrisdale Ellegies - 1984
- Seventy-One Poems for People - 1985
- Delayed Mercy '' - 1986
- Urban Snow - 1992
- Parents from Space - 1994
- Blondes on Bikes - 1997
- Diamondback Dog - 1998
- His Life - 2000 (Nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Fiction
- Mirror on the Floor - 1967
- Autobiology - 1972
- Flycather and other stories - 1974
- A Short Sad Book - 1977
- Concentric Circles - 1977
- Protective Footwear - 1978
- Burning Water - 1980 (winner of the 1980 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
- A Place to Die - 1983
- Caprice - 1988
- Harry's Fragments - 1990
- Shoot! - 1994
- The Rain Barrel - 1994
- Non-Fiction