Poetry

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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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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Green

In Green, Marilyn Bowering addresses her physical and metaphysical worlds in conversations that move from the most intimate expressions of longing to the political. Her love of Lorca and Ritsos and Rumi and the years she spent in Spain have seeped into the frames of her poetry, adding another colour to the interplay of form [...]

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