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Taking Measures collects the major serial poems of Canadäs inaugural Poet Laureate, George Bowering, including work from each of the last six decades. Here is Bowering at his experimental and irreverent best.

Canadian literary legend George Bowering lays bare his process as reader and lover of poetry in this curated collection of poems to be read in the morning. In a series of deeply astute and conversational essays, two-time Governor General's Award winner and inaugural Parlimentary Poet Laureate of Canada George Bowering travels through five hundred years, give or take, of English-language literature, adding historical, political, feminist, socio...

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In Vermeer's Light, Canada's first Poet Laureate reveals secrets of creation that he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself.

Literary Nonfiction. Baseball. George Bowering is fond of baseball, and he likes the alphabet. Having written a few baseball books and a few alphabet books over the years, he decided to write a baseball alphabet book. THE DIAMOND ALPHABET is made up of 130 between-innings takes, five for each letter. You probably expected "Mays, " but were you ready for "Uzbekistan"? Tall tales, memories, facts and opinions are interwoven in this delightful co...

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One of Canada's most celebrated writers shares a lifetime of poems, short stories, and essays inspired by the Okanagan Valley.

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It happened in Vancouver, just before 'the sixties' started. A whole generation of poets, writers and artists shook off the repression of 1950s Vancouver. Piccolo Mondo blurs the lines between the fiction and fact of those days, challenging both the boundaries of narrative and the rules of biography. This hilarious collaborative novel chronicles the coming of age of a generation, a city and a new literary culture.

A poignant, funny correspondence between two generations of fathers about raising their daughters.

These daily riffs during an autumn in Denmark and Italy record perspectives of a husband and wife who see differently.

Literary Nonfiction. Every once in a while Bowering has to turn to a book such as this. HORIZONTAL SURFACES came from the same atelier as Craft Slices and Errata. You could keep the book somewhere that you visit for short periods, reading one item at a time. You should also feel free to add a sentence or two. George Bowering writes these books about literary composition as well as short stories and the odd novel. He is also a poet of sorts, an...

Each year, the best English-language books of poetry are honored with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's richest and most influential literary awards. And each year, poetry lovers and readers eagerly await the release of the Griffin Poetry Prize short-list anthology. "The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology" includes poems from all the books selected this year. It gathers together an absolute who's who of contemporary poets and intro...