Tim Bowling
Tim Bowling has published numerous poetry collections, including Low Water Slack; Dying Scarlet (winner of the 1998 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for poetry); Darkness and Silence (winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry); The Witness Ghost; and The Memory Orchard (both nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award). He is also the author of three novels, Downriver Drift (Harbour), The Paperboy's Winter (Penguin) and The Bone Sharps (Gaspereau Press). His first book of non-fiction, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture (Nightwood Editions), was shortlisted for three literary awards: The Writers' Trust Nereus Non-Fiction Award, the BC Book Prizes' Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and the Alberta Literary Awards' Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction. The Lost Coast was also chosen as a 2008 Kiriyama Prize "Notable Book." Bowling is the recipient of the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, the National Poetry Award and the Orillia International Poetry Prize. Bowling was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. A native of the West Coast, he now lives in Edmonton Alberta. His latest collection of poetry is Tenderman (Nightwood), due out in fall 2011.
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The Book Collector 978-0-88971-235-5 · 0-88971-235-2 · November 2008 · $16.95 “...hauntingly imagined and deftly crafted.” —Canadian Literature |
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Darkness and Silence 978-0-88971-175-4 · 0-88971-175-5 · 2001 · $16.95 Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry |
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Downriver Drift 978-1-55017-220-1 · 1-55017-220-4 · 2000 · $21.95 The compelling and critically-acclaimed debut novel by one of Canada's top poets. |
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Dying Scarlet 978-0-88971-164-8 · 0-88971-164-X · 1997 · $17.95 Named for the poem that won Tim Bowling the 1997 Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, Dying Scarlet has also captured Alberta's 2000 Stephan G. Stephasson Poetry Award and established Tim Bowling as one of our country's best poets. |
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The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture 978-0-88971-211-9 · 0-88971-211-5 · September 2007 · $29.95 An impassioned lament for the home Bowling once knew and for the river and creatures that continue to haunt his imagination. |
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Low Water Slack 978-0-88971-161-7 · 0-88971-161-5 · 1995 · $16.95 "Tim Bowling's first book, Low Water Slack, is a rare find. Accomplished, assured, and stocked with memorable imagery, it trumpets the presence of a huge new talent." -The Antigonish Review |
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Selected Poems 978-0-88971-278-2 · 0-88971-278-6 · April 2013 · $22.95 |
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Tenderman 978-0-88971-259-1 · 0-88971-259-X · August 2011 · $18.95 Are you out there counting in the mast-light's dim as the back-eddy swirls the yoked boats down and fresh numbers strike to plunge the corks? Are you keeping careful track of the dead? |
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Where the Words Come From: Canadian Poets in Conversation 978-0-88971-184-6 · 0-88971-184-4 · February 2002 · $22.95 A first of its kind! - Canada's best-known poets are interviewed by its up-and-coming poets. |
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The Witness Ghost 978-0-88971-191-4 · 0-88971-191-7 · March 2003 · $15.95 Shortlisted for the 2003 Governor General's Award for Poetry. |