Peter Trower
Peter Trower was born at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, England, in 1930. He immigrated to British Columbia at age ten, following the death of his test-pilot father in a plane crash. His mother married a West Coast pulp mill superintendent who drowned soon after. Trower quit school to work as a logger for twenty-two years. Since 1969, he has published more than a dozen books of poetry—from which poems were selected for Haunted Hills & Hanging Valleys: Selected Poems 1969–2004—and contributed to several issues of Raincoast Chronicles and Vancouver Magazine. Poetry collections such as Moving Through Mystery (1969), Between the Sky and the Splinters (1974), The Alders and Others (1969) and Ragged Horizons (1978) express his admiration and resentment at the magisterial power of nature. He has written three novels about the West Coast logging life: Grogan's Cafe (1993), Dead Man's Ticket (1996) and The Judas Hills (2000). Trower lives in Gibsons, British Columbia.
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Dead Man's Ticket 978-1-55017-149-5 · 1-55017-149-6 · August 1996 · $21.95 "A pulpy romp through the seamy underbelly of Vancouver in the 1950s." -Vancouver Province |
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Goosequill Snags 978-0-920080-58-0 · 0-920080-58-8 · 1983 · $12.95 "Among the 'unknown poets' Peter Trower ranks with Milton Acorn. . . Haig-Brown is a prose parallel . . . but the voice is entirely Trower's own. A poet worth knowing." -Al Purdy |
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Grogan's Cafe 978-1-55017-071-9 · 1-55017-071-6 · 1993 · $21.95 A riproaring tale with its feet on the ground and its heart in the woods, Grogan's Cafe is acclaimed writer Peter Trower's first novel. |
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Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys: Selected Poems 1969–2004 978-1-55017-311-6 · 1-55017-311-1 · April 2004 · $18.95 Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Jack Chalmers Poetry Award (2005) "It’s high time [Trower] was recognized more widely as the gifted and versatile force in Canadian poetry that he is. If this fine selection can’t garner such recognition, it’s hard to imagine what will." -Zach Wells, The Danforth Review |
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The Judas Hills 978-1-55017-228-7 · 1-55017-228-X · October 2000 · $21.95 "For British Columbians who remember these legacies [of their province], and for those who never knew, The Judas Hills should be required reading." -The Georgia Straight Shortlisted for the 2001 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize |
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Unmarked Doorways 978-1-55017-003-0 · 1-55017-003-1 · 1989 · $12.95 ". . . heft and passion and a gift for telling place and detail." -Irving Layton ". . . fine, strong, original-the kind of grassroots poetry that I am always on the lookout for." -Dorothy Livesay |