Tim Bowling. Courtesy Harbour Publishing.
Tim Bowling (born 1964)[1] is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Life[]
Bowling was born in Vancouver,[1] and grew up in Ladner, British Columbia.
He lives in Edmonton, Alberta.[2] In addition to writing and publishing poetry he has also written 4 novels.
Recognition[]
His work has been nominated 9 times for the City of Edmonton Book Prize, and 12 times for the Alberta Book Awards.[2]
- 2002: Canadian Authors Association, winner of poetry award, Darkness and Silence [3]
- 2003 Finalist for Governor General's Award for English language poetry, The Witness Ghost
- Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, The Memory Orchard
- 2004: Alberta Book Awards, winner of Best Novel, The Paperboy's Winter [4]
- 2008: Guggenheim Fellowship [2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Low Water Slack. Gibsons Landing, BC: Nightwood Editions, 1995.
- Dying Scarlet. Gibsons Landing, BC: Nightwood Editions, 1997.
- The Thin Smoke of the Heart. Montreal and Ithaca, NY: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.
- Nine Doe. Edmonton, AB: Extra Virgin Press, 2001.
- Darkness and Silence. Roberts Creek, BC: Nightwood Editions, ©2001.
- The Witness Ghost Roberts Creek, BC: Nightwood Editions, 2003.
- The Memory Orchard. London, ON: Brick Books, 2004.
- Fathom. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2006.
- Refrain for rental boat no.4. Kentville, NS : Gaspereau Press, 2008.
- The Book Collector. Gibsons Landing, BC: Nightwood Editions, 2008.
- The Annotated Bee and Me. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2010.
- Tenderman. Gibsons Landing, BC : Nightwood Editions, 2011.
- Selected Poems. Gibsons, BC : Nightwood Editions, 2013.
- Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2014.
- The Thin Smoke of the Heart. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
- The Duende of Tetherball. Gibsons, BC : Nightwood Editions, 2016.
Novels[]
- Downriver Drift. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2000.
- The Paperboy's Winter. Toronto: Penguin, 2003.
- The Bone Sharps. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2007.
- The Tinsmith. Victoria, BC: Brindle & Glass, 2012.
- The Heavy Bear. Hamilton, ON: Buckrider, 2017.
Non-fiction[]
- The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture. Gibsons Landing, BC: Nightwood Editions, 2007.
- In The Suicide's Library. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2010.
Edited[]
- Where the Words Come From: Canadian poets in conversation. Roberts Creek, BC : Nightwood Editions, 2002.
ARC Magazine at Versefest 2014 -- Part 9 -- Tim Bowling Read, Part One
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Birth place and year mentioned in Penguin interview with Tim Bowling regarding The Paperboy's Winter
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Dark Set: New tenderman poems, Wolsak & Wynne. Web, Mar. 5, 2019.
- ↑ Canadian Authors Association: Poetry award winners list
- ↑ Writers' Guild of Alberta: 2004 Alberta Book Awards winners (PDF document)
- ↑ Search results=Tim Bowling, WorldCat, Web, Mar. 29, 2017.
External links[]
- Poems
- "The Last Sockeye"
- "The Tenderman’s Brief History of the Late Twentieth Century"
- Tim Bowling at the Poetry Foundation
- Tim Bowling, 3 poems at Northern Poetry Review
- Audio / video
- Books
- Tim Bowling at Amazon.com
- About
- Nightwood Editions: Tim Bowling
- Tim Bowling at Harbour Publishing
- "Poet staves off poverty in exotic Edmonton," National Post interview, 2008
- "Sincerity, Music, Risk: An interview with Tim Bowling, Prism, 2017
- "Blood and cruelty, friendship and fish," review of The Tinsmith at the Globe and Mail.
- "Time and Tide: The Fraser River poetry of Tim Bowling" by Chris Banks
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