Writing the Okanagan

One of Canada's most celebrated writers shares a lifetime of poems, short stories, and essays inspired by the Okanagan Valley.

Table des matières

Introduction

Delsing (1961)

Sticks & Stones (1962)
Radio Jazz

The Valley (1963)
Okanagan Storm
Locus Solus
Locus Primus
Patrol

Points on the Grid (1964)
Meta Morphosis

The Man in the Yellow Boots (1965)
Recharge

The Silver Wire (1966)
Driving to Kelowna

Baseball (1967)
2nd Inning

The Gangs of Kosmos (1967)
I Don't

Autobiology (1972)
The Raspberries
Some Deaths
Growing
Working and Wearing
The Lake
The First Two Towns
The Fourth Town
The Pool
The Joints

Flycatcher (1974)
Flycatcher
Time and Again
Apples

The Catch (1976)
Desert Elm II
Desert Elm V
Desert Elm VII
Desert Elm IX
Desert Elm X
Reconsiderations II

Protective Footwear (1978)
Re Union

West Window (1982)
Trucking Peaches

Smoking Mirror (1982)
Calm After
The Smooth Loper
At Fairview, Burnt to the Earth

A Way With Words (1982)
The Memory of Red Lane

A Place to Die (1983)
A Short Story

Caprice (1987)

Urban Snow (1991)
Grizzle Boy
Oliver Community Park 1948

The Rain Barrel (1994)
The Rain Barrel,
Blithe Trees
Rhode Island Red
The Creature

Shoot! (1994)

Bowering's B.C. (1996)
Rock Creek
En'owkin

Blonds on Bikes (1997)
Fall Bird

His Life, a Poem (2000)
Winter 1958
Winter 1963
Spring 1971
Winter 1978
Fall 1983

A Magpie Life (2001)
Ewart Bowering
Deking Dad
Poems for Men
Parashoot!

Cars (2002)

Standing on Richards (2004)
The Outhouse

Left Hook (2005)
The Autobiographings of Mourning Dove

Vermeer's Light (2006)
Unlikely Childhood Transculturation

Crows in the Wind (2006)
I Watched My Father

Baseball Love (2006)
Growing up in Baseball

Eggs in There (2007)
I remember going to church
I remember being in the back seat

Valley (2008)

The Box (2009)
An Experimental Story

Horizontal Surfaces (2010)
Lawrence

The Diamond Alphabet (2011)
Babe
Donkeys
Okanagan

Words, Words, Words (2012)
The Family Son

Pinboy (2012)

Teeth (2013)
Tie

Six Events to Make a Poet (2015)
The Giant Snowball
Someone's Horse

A propos de l'auteur

George Bowering, Canada's first Parliamentary Poet Laureate, is a major Canadian literary figure and one of the country's most prolific authors, having written more than one hundred books, including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography, and youth fiction. His texts have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Romanian. A founder of the influential poetry journal TISH, Bowering went on to become a distinguished novelist, poet, editor, professor, historian, and tireless supporter of fellow writers. He has twice won the Governor General's Literary Award, and has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the BC Book Prize, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Bowering is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has also been awarded the Order of British Columbia and the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. The George Bowering Collection and Reading Room at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections is scheduled to open in late 2025.

Résumé

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 twenty-first century, he was made a permanent citizen of Oliver. Bowering has family up and down the Valley, and he goes there as often as he can. He has been asked during his many visits to Okanagan bookstores over the years to publish a collection of his writing about the Valley.

Writing the Okanagan draws on forty books Bowering has published since 1960 – poetry, fiction, history, and some forms he may have invented. Selections from Delsing (1961) and Sticks & Stones (1962) are here, as is “Driving to Kelowna” from The Silver Wire (1966). Other Okanagan towns, among them Rock Creek, Peachland, Vernon, Kamloops, Princeton, and Osoyoos, inspire selections from work published through the 1970s and on to 2013. Fairview, the old mining site near Oliver, is the focus of an excerpt from Caprice (1987, 2010), one volume in Bowering’s trilogy of historical novels. “Desert Elm” takes as its two main subjects the Okanagan Valley and his father, who, as Bowering did, grew up there. With the addition of some previously unpublished works, the reader will find the wonder of the Okanagan here, in both prose and poetry.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: George Bowering, George Bowering
• Edition: Talonbooks
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780889229419
• ISBN: 978-0-88922-941-9
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 25 mm
• Poids: 590 g
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée