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Could Be
New Poems
Price:
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201785
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: New Star Books
"Still producing at the height of his powers" is a cliche that rarely applies as well as it does to George Bowering's recent output. In Could Be: New Poems, gathering work since his close call five...
Soft Zipper
Objects, Food, Rooms
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CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554201723
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: New Star Books
This engaging memoir relates stories about George Bowering's small-town BC upbringing and his parents — his father long dead and his mother more recently passed on at the age of 100 — while at the...
Taking Measures
Selected Serial Poems
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781772012446
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: Talonbooks
Taking Measures collects the major serial poems of Canada’s inaugural Poet Laureate, George Bowering, including work from each of the last six decades. Here is Bowering at his experimental and irreverent best.
Writing and Reading
Essays
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CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201549
Pub Date: November 2019
Imprint: New Star Books
In the course of a writing life that has spanned more than five decades and encompasses almost eighty books of fiction, poetry, history, and criticism he's written and another thirty that he's played...
if wants to be the same as is
Essential Poems of David Bromige
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CA$45.00
ISBN: 9781554201341
Pub Date: June 2018
Imprint: New Star Books
Drawn from 22 books of poetry published by David Bromige in his lifetime, if wants to be the same as is chronicles the career of one of contemporary poetry's most distinctive writers. Born in London,...
Some End / West Broadway
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CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201457
Pub Date: February 2018
Imprint: New Star Books
A masterpiece of late style and friendship, this volume combines back to back two powerful new works by old masters, George Bowering and George Stanley. Stanley's West Broadway is a long poem, composed...
Baseball Love
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CA$19.95
ISBN: 9780889225299
Pub Date: April 2006
Imprint: Talonbooks
Having written books in practically every genre, George Bowering is often introduced as someone who adores baseball, yet ironically he did not begin this book about the game until he was appointed Canada’s...
Writing the Okanagan
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780889229419
Pub Date: September 2015
Imprint: Talonbooks
George Bowering was born in Penticton, where his great-grandfather Willis Brinson lived, and Bowering has never been all that far from the Okanagan Valley in his heart and imagination. Early in the...
My Darling Nellie Grey
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780889226340
Pub Date: April 2010
Imprint: Talonbooks
In December 2005, stalled on a novel he was writing, George Bowering thought he needed a challenge. By the end of the year he had made a New Year’s resolution: write a poem a day for the 365 days...
Kerrisdale Elegies
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780889225909
Pub Date: January 2008
Imprint: Talonbooks
It is extraordinary that one can take the measure of how radically cultural sensibilities can change throughout a century by a careful reading of only two texts—in this case Rainer Maria Rilke’s...
The Rain Barrel
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780889223455
Pub Date: January 1994
Imprint: Talonbooks
Here are twenty-one user-friendly tales, set in the Okanagan Valley, Austria, Washington, Nanaimo, the Yukon, Iceland, Germany, the future — and Daphne’s Lunch Diner. The Rain Barrel is George Bowering’s...
The Moustache
Memories of Greg Curnoe
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CA$16.95
ISBN: 9780889104570
Pub Date: January 1993
Imprint: Talonbooks
George Bowering and Greg Curnoe became friends in London, Ontario, in 1966. Bowering was a 30-year-old poet and university student and Curnoe was a 29-year-old painter who had dropped out of art school...
Harry's Fragments
A Novel of International Puzzlement
Price:
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780889103870
Pub Date: January 1990
Imprint: Talonbooks
In a parody of a thriller novel, Harry the Hack, newly recruited literary spy, follows a mystery woman seeking wisdom and sanity.
A Short Sad Book
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CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554201297
Pub Date: March 2017
Imprint: New Star Books
With an Introduction by Erín Moure and an Afterword by George Bowering. These days, Canada is a heavyweight of world fiction, boasting some of the gaudiest names in the literary firmament, its schools...
The World, I Guess
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CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554200962
Pub Date: May 2015
Imprint: New Star Books
The World, I Guess is a substantial book, six sections that demonstrate a command of a broad poetic range, a catholic range of interests, and echoes of a lifetime of reading and learning from Pound,...
Words, Words, Words
Essays and Memoirs
Price:
CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554200665
Pub Date: October 2012
Imprint: New Star Books
Words, Words, Words is a wide-ranging collection of literary essays that astonish the reader with their candor, insight, and generosity. Many of them reveal the absurdity that so often underlies our...
Could Be
New Poems
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201785
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: New Star Books
Soft Zipper
Objects, Food, Rooms
CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554201723
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: New Star Books
Taking Measures
Selected Serial Poems
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781772012446
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: Talonbooks
Writing and Reading
Essays
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201549
Pub Date: November 2019
Imprint: New Star Books
if wants to be the same as is
Essential Poems of David Bromige
CA$45.00
ISBN: 9781554201341
Pub Date: June 2018
Imprint: New Star Books
Some End / West Broadway
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554201457
Pub Date: February 2018
Imprint: New Star Books
Baseball Love
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9780889225299
Pub Date: April 2006
Imprint: Talonbooks
Writing the Okanagan
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780889229419
Pub Date: September 2015
Imprint: Talonbooks
My Darling Nellie Grey
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780889226340
Pub Date: April 2010
Imprint: Talonbooks
Kerrisdale Elegies
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780889225909
Pub Date: January 2008
Imprint: Talonbooks
The Rain Barrel
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780889223455
Pub Date: January 1994
Imprint: Talonbooks
The Moustache
Memories of Greg Curnoe
CA$16.95
ISBN: 9780889104570
Pub Date: January 1993
Imprint: Talonbooks
Harry's Fragments
A Novel of International Puzzlement
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9780889103870
Pub Date: January 1990
Imprint: Talonbooks
A Short Sad Book
CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554201297
Pub Date: March 2017
Imprint: New Star Books
The World, I Guess
CA$18.00
ISBN: 9781554200962
Pub Date: May 2015
Imprint: New Star Books
Words, Words, Words
Essays and Memoirs
CA$19.00
ISBN: 9781554200665
Pub Date: October 2012
Imprint: New Star Books