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Tim Bowling

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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.

Books by Tim Bowling

In the Capital City of Autumn

by (author) Tim Bowling

The Marvels of Youth

by (author) Tim Bowling

The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird

Essays on the Common and Extraordinary

by (author) Tim Bowling

Dark Set, The

New Tenderman Poems

by (author) Tim Bowling

The Heavy Bear

by (author) Tim Bowling

The Duende of Tetherball

by (author) Tim Bowling

The 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

A Selection of the Shortlist

edited by Tim Bowling, Fanny Howe & Piotr Sommer

Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief

by (author) Tim Bowling

Selected Poems

by (author) Tim Bowling

The Tinsmith

by (author) Tim Bowling

Tenderman

by (author) Tim Bowling

In the Suicide’s Library

A Book Lover’s Journey

by (author) Tim Bowling

The Book Collector

by (author) Tim Bowling

Refrain for Rental Boat #4

by (author) Tim Bowling

The Lost Coast

Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture

by (author) Tim Bowling

The Bone Sharps

by (author) Tim Bowling

Fathom

by (author) Tim Bowling

Writing the Terrain

Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets

contributions by Ian Adam, Robert Stamp, Tammy Armstrong, Margaret Avison, Douglas Barbour, John O. Barton, Doug Beardsley, Bonnie Bishop, E.D. Blodgett, Robert Boates, George Bowering, Tim Bowling, Jan Boydol, Gordon Burles, Murdoch Burnett, Anne Campbell, Weyman Chan, Leonard Cohen, Dennis Cooley, Joan Crate, Michael Cullen, Cyril Dabydeen, Lorne Daniel, Alexa DeWiel, Jason Dewinetz, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Cecelia Frey, Gary Geddes, Gail Ghai, Deborah Godin, Jim Green, Leslie Greentree, Vivian Hansen, Tom Henihan, Michael Henry, Walter Hildebrandt, Gerald Hill, Robert Hilles, Nancy Holmes, Richard Hornsey, Tom Howe, Aislinn Hunter, Bruce Hunter, Laurence Hutchman, Sally Ito, Pauline Johnson, Aleksei Kazuk, Robert Kroetsch, Fiona Lam, William Latta, Tim Lilburn, Alice Major, Kim Maltman, Miriam Mandel, Sid Marty, David McFadden, Barry McKinnon, Erin Michie, Deborah Miller, Anna Mioduchowska, James M. Moir, Colin Morton, Erín Moure, Charles Noble, P.K. Page, Rajinderpal Pal, Ruth Roach Pierson, Joseph Pivato, Roberta Rees, D.C. Reid, Monty Reid, R. rickey, Ken Rivard, Stephen Scobie, Allan Serafino, Joan Shillington, Greg Simison, Carol Ann Sokoloff, Karen Solie, Stephan Stephansson, Peter Stevens, Ivan Sundal, Anne Swannell, Vanna Tessier, Colleen Thibadeau, John O. Thompson, James M. Thurgood, Eva Tihanyi, Yvonne Trainer, Aritha van Herk, Rosalee van Stelten, Miriam Waddington, James Wreford Watson, Wilfred Watson, Tom Wayman, Phyllis Webb, Jon Whyte, Christine Wiesenthal, Sheri-D Wilson, Christopher Wiseman, Stacie Wolfer, Rita Wong, Richard Woollatt & Jan Zwicky

Memory Orchard, The

by (author) Tim Bowling

The Witness Ghost

by (author) Tim Bowling

Where the Words Come From

Canadian Poets in Conversation

edited by Tim Bowling

Darkness and Silence

by (author) Tim Bowling

The Thin Smoke of the Heart

by (author) Tim Bowling

Downriver Drift

by (author) Tim Bowling

Dying Scarlet

by (author) Tim Bowling

Low Water Slack

by (author) Tim Bowling