The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird: Essays on the Common and Extraordinary

"His writing is beautiful and very poignant, so readers will no doubt take away their own impressions from these moving passages."

British Columbia Review

"These essays are filled with quiet wisdom, hard-won insights about everyday life, a stirring love of the natural world, a poignant passion for life heightened by clear-sighted awareness of its brevity, and a rare intimacy and candour, as if Bowling is confiding these stories and thoughts to his closest loved one."

AlbertaViews

"Serious readers of personal essays know how hard it is to keep just a few matters in the air, let alone all this. I kept bracing for the break-up and crash, but to my astonishment the essay lands perfectly. I gasped audibly with surprise and delight for the first time in my reading life."

Alone on a Windy Ridge