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George Bowering Bibliography (selected)

This piece is about 7 printed pages long.

For a more complete bibliography of George Bowering up to 1989, look at Roy Miki’s A Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering; Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1989.

I. Poetry

Sticks & Stones. Vancouver BC: Tishbooks, 1962; Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1989.

Points on the Grid. Toronto ON: Contact Press, 1964.

The Man in Yellow Boots / El hombre de las amarillas. Mexico City: el corno emplumado, 1965.

The Silver Wire. Kingston ON: The Quarry Press, 1966.

Baseball: A Poem in the Magic Number 9. Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1967; Toronto ON: Coach House Books, 2004.

Rocky Mountain Foot. Toronto ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1969.

The Gangs of Kosmos. Toronto ON: Anansi, 1969.

Two Police Poems. Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1969.

Sitting in Mexico. Montreal QC: Imago / Beaver Kosmos Folio, 1970.

George, Vancouver. Toronto ON: Weed/ Flower Press, 1970.

Genève. Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1971.

Touch: selected poems 1960-1970. Toronto ON/ Montreal QC: McClelland & Stewart, 1971.

Autobiology. Vancouver BC: Georgia Straight Writing Supplement, Vancouver Series #7, 1972.

The Sensible (chapbook). Toronto ON: Massasauga Editions, 1972.

Curious. Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1973.

At War With The U.S. Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1974

In The Flesh. Toronto ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1974.

Layers 1-13 (chapbook). Toronto ON: Weed/ Flower Press, 1974.

Allophanes. Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1976.

Poem and Other Baseballs. Coatsworth ON: Black Moss Press, 1976.

The Catch. Toronto ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1976.

In Answer (chapbook). Vancouver BC: William Hoffer, 1977.

The Concrete Island. Montréal QC: Véhicule Press, 1977.

Another Mouth. Toronto ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1979.

Uncle Louis. Toronto ON: Coach House Press MS. Editions, 1980.

Selected Poems, Particular Accidents. Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1980.

West Window: The Selected Poetry of George Bowering. Toronto ON: General Publishing Co. Limited, 1982.

Ear Reach (chapbook). Vancouver BC: The Alcuin Society, 1982.

Smoking Mirror. Edmonton AB: Longspoon Press, 1982.

Kerrisdale Elegies. Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1984.

Seventy-One Poems For People. Red Deer AB: Red Deer College Press, 1985.

Delayed Mercy and Other Poems. Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1987.

Quarters (chapbook). Prince George BC: Gorse Press, 1991.

Do Sink (chapbook). Vancouver BC: Pomflit, 1992.

Sweetly (chapbook). Vancouver BC: Wuz, 1992.

Urban Snow. Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1992.

George Bowering Selected: Poems 1962-1992. Toronto ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1993.

Elegie di Kerrisdale. Trans. Annalisa Goldoni. Rome: Edizioni Empiria, 1996.

Blondes on Bikes 1-20 (chapbook). STANZAS #12. Ottawa ON: above/ ground press, 1997.

Blonds on Bikes. Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1997.

A, You’re Adorable. chapbook. First edition, as “Ellen Field.” Ottawa ON: above/ ground press, 1998; second edition, “George Bowering as Ellen Field.” Ottawa ON: above/ ground press, 2004.

Poèmes et autres baseballs. Montreal QC: Triptique, 1999.

His Life. Toronto ON: ECW Press, 2000.

Some Writers. chapbook. Calgary AB: housepress, 2001.

Lost in the Library (pamphlet). Ellsworth ME: Backwoods Broadsides, Chaplet Series #84, 2004.

Changing on the Fly, The Best Lyric Poems of George Bowering. Vancouver BC: Polestar Books, 2004.

Rewriting My Grandfather. Vancouver BC: Nomados, 2005.

II. Fiction

Mirror on the Floor (novel). Toronto ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1967.

Flycatcher And Other Stories. Ottawa ON: Oberon Press, 1974.

A Short Sad Book (novel). Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1977.

Concentric Circles (novella). Coatsworth ON: Black Moss Press, 1977.

Protective Footwear (stories). Toronto ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1978.

Burning Water (novel). Don Mills ON: Musson Book Company, General Publishing Co. Limited, 1980; Toronto ON: Penguin Canada, 1994.

En eaux troubles. Trans. L.-Philippe Hébert. Montreal QC: Quinze, 1982.

A Place to Die (stories). Ottawa ON: Oberon Press, 1983.

Spencer & Groulx (from the forthcoming Caprice). Vancouver BC: William Hoffer, 1985.

Caprice. Toronto ON: Viking, 1987, 1988; 2^nd ed., 1994.

Harry’s Fragments. Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1990.

The Rain Barrel (stories). Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1994.

Parents From Space (young adult novel). Montreal QC: Roussan, 1994, 2^nd ed. 1996; Toronto ON: Scholastic Publishers, 1996.

Shoot! (novel). Toronto ON: Key Porter, 1994; New York NY: St. Martin’s, 1996.

Piccolo Mondo (with Angela Bowering, Mike Matthews and David Bromige). Toronto ON: Coach House Books, 1998.

Diamondback Dog (young adult novel). Montreal QC: Roussan, 1998.

Standing on Richards (selected stories). Toronto ON: Viking Canada, 2004.

III. Criticism

How I Hear Howl. Montreal QC: Beaver Kosmos Folio, 1969.

Al Purdy. Toronto ON: The Copp Clark Publishing Company, 1971.

Robert Duncan: An Interview (with Robert Hogg). Toronto ON: Coach House Press / Beaver Kosmos Folio, 1971.

Three Vancouver Writers: interviews by George Bowering (including Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt and Frank Davey). Toronto ON: Open Letter, Fourth Series, Number 3, Spring 1979.

A Way With Words. Ottawa ON: Oberon Press, 1982.

The Mask In Place: Essays on Fiction in North America. Winnipeg MB: Turnstone Press, 1982.

Craft Slices. Ottawa ON: Oberon Press, 1985.

Errata. Red Deer AB: Red Deer College Press, 1988.

Imaginary Hand. Edmonton AB: NeWest Press, 1988.

Left Hook: A Sideways Look at Canadian Writing. Vancouver BC: Raincoast, 2005.

IV. Non-fiction / Memoir

The Moustache: Memories of Greg Curnoe (memoir). Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1993.

Bowering’s B.C. Toronto ON: Viking, 1996; Toronto ON: Penguin Canada, 1997.

Egotists and Autocrats: the Prime Ministers of Canada. Toronto ON: Penguin Canada, 1999.

A Magpie Life: Growing A Writer (memoir). Toronto ON: Key Porter Books, 2001.

Stone Country: an Unauthorized History of Canada. Toronto ON: Penguin Canada, 2003.

Baseball Love (memoir). Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 2006.

V. Plays

The Home for Heroes, Vancouver BC: Prism, 1962.

What Does Eddie Williams Want?, Montreal QC: CBC-TV, 1966.

George Vancouver, Vancouver BC: CBC radio network, 1972.

Sitting in Mexico, Vancouver BC: CBC radio network, 1973.

Music in the Park, Vancouver BC: CBC radio network, 1986.

The Great Grandchildren of Bill Bissett’s Mice, Vancouver BC: CBC radio network, 1989.

VI. Books and Pamphlets Edited

Tish: A Poetry Newsletter. Vancouver BC: 1961-63.

Imago 1-19. Long poem journal. Calgary AB, London ON, Montreal QC, Vancouver BC, 1964-1974.

The 1962 Poems of R.S. Lane. Toronto ON: Ganglia Press, 1965.

Beaver Kosmos Folios. Calgary AB, London ON, Montreal QC, Vancouver BC, 1966-75.

Vibrations: poems of youth. Toronto ON: Gage, 1970.

The Story so Far. Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1972.

Imago Twenty. Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1974.

Cityflowers, by Artie Gold. Montreal QC: Delta Canada, 1974.

Letters from Geeksville: letters from Red Lane 1960-64. Prince George BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1976.

Great Canadian Sports Stories. Ottawa ON: Oberon Press, 1979.

Fiction of Contemporary Canada. Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1980.

Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek: selected poems of Fred Wah. Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 1981.

My Body was Eaten by Dogs: selected poems of David McFadden. Toronto ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1981; New York NY: CrossCountry, 1981.

The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology. Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1983.

Sheila Watson and The Double Hook: the artist and her critics. Ottawa ON: Golden Dog Press, 1984.

Taking the Field: The Best of Baseball Fiction. Red Deer AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990.

Likely Stories: A Postmodern Sampler (with Linda Hutcheon). Toronto ON: Coach House Press, 1992.

An H in the Heart: Selected works of bpNichol (with Michael Ondaatje). Toronto ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1994.

And Other Stories. Vancouver BC: Talonbooks, 2001.