Books

Green

  “Green, is a beautiful book! The sensory affection of Marilyn Bowering’s words make each poem glow.  The intelligence of heart, mind and body are merged throughout with emotional depth and a rare meditative sensibility. This is wise, tenderly cadenced work, exquisitely drawn and evocative.  The linguistic grace of these poems simmers with the authority [...]

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Work-in-Progress

Book length non-fiction–A commonplace of Hills- remains as work- in-progress at the moment. It’s astonishing how much time it can take to finish a novel, a libretto and a series of poems….so I’ll post an inspirational photo of my path-finding friend, Alan Danesh.

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Calendar Poems

Marilyn Bowering on Poetry Interview by Ajmer Rode, translator into Punjabi of Marilyn Bowering’s Calendar Poems.  http://www.ajmerrode.ca/ Creative Process Q: How does a poem happen? Is inspiration necessary or do you just start writing it without any inspiration – like American poet Ashbury? Usually the poem begins with a feeling: I can tell one is [...]

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En Poemas y Dibujos

Exhibition in Spain   I’d met the artist, Mercedes Carbonell, when I was living in Sevilla in the early 1990′s. Subsequently, she designed the covers of several of my poetry books, and in 2004 gathered together and translated a collection of my poetry to accompany her drawings of women.  Her work is always full of [...]

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Many Voices

When I’m asked why I began to look for poems to include in Many Voices I tend to say it was because Robin Skelton, then my teacher, asked me to think of an important book that was absent from our literature and then do something about it. Although that is true, and it seemed obvious [...]

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The Sunday Before Winter

Short-listed for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry   “A clear voice—lyric soprano—and singing such songs: difficult, frightening, fragile. But all glistening like wet stones, the wings of insects, scissors.”    PK Page   “In Marilyn Bowering’s poetry the world that we touch and the world that we dream are brought together in a mirror that reflects [...]

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Locate Works

Where to Locate Works Amazon.com Bolen Books Dundurn Press HarperCollinsCanada Munro’s Books Penguin Canada Green can be ordered from Exile Editions Books published by BeachHolme Press can be ordered from the University of Toronto Press (UTP): By mail: Dundurn Books University of Toronto Press Inc. 5201 Dufferin Street Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T8 By phone: 1-800-565-9523 [...]

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Human Bodies

  Human Bodies collects the poems of the latter half of award-winning poet and novelist Marilyn Bowering’s illustrious career. On the heels of her Governor General nominated Beach Holme title Autobiography, this collection also includes her earlier works Love As It Is, Calling All the World, Anyone Can See I Love You, Grandfather Was A [...]

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The Alchemy of Happiness

In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness. Like an alchemist of old, she transmutes experiences, perceptions, and perspectives into something richer and rarer despite the passage of [...]

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What it Takes to be Human

Marilyn Bowering’s haunting novel What It Takes to Be Human, is set largely in an asylum for the criminally insane in British Columbia in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Sandy Grey’s version of reality may not match those in the world within a world in which he finds himself, but he does know what it is ‘to be human’—unlike those, beginning with his parents, who have treated him cruelly. The world outside is disintegrating in war, and within the confines of the asylum, the same war with its automatic hatreds and racism continue to play out.

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