Teeth

Every new collection by George Bowering is an event in Canadian poetry. His latest book—topping a six-decade writing career—is an eclectic, lively mix of free verse, list poems, haiku, and more. Whether Bowering is taking on the big themes—love, mortality, politics—or the mundane or trivial, his poems are fresh, snappy, and always provocative. The poetry in Teeth is by turns playful, meditative, and outrageous—odes to his contemporaries, to long-dead bards, to baseball players and jazz musicians, to loved ones lost.

An unusual bonus in this volume is an extensive end-of-the-book interview with Bowering by fellow poet Judith Fitzgerald that explores the evolution of Canadian poetry since the 1960s, what it means to be a poet, and Bowering’s
own oeuvre.

Caprice is the second of three historical novels by George Bowering set in British Columbia, and recently re–issued by New Star Books. Burning Water was reissued in 2007, and Shoot! in 2008.

An officer of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia, and Canada's first modern–day poet–laureate, George Bowering has won two Governor–General's Awards for his books, as well as the British Columbia Lieutenant–Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. He lives in Vancouver, where he intends to write every day as long as they let him.