George Harry Bowering (born 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He is one of a group of poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah , Jamie Reid (not the British situationist, the Canadian poet), and David Dawson who were together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal Tish. He lives in Vancouver B.C. and recently retired from teaching at Simon Fraser University. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate .

Works:

• Poetry
  • Points on the Grid - 1964
  • Sticks and Stones - 1964
  • The Silver Wire - 1966
  • Rocky Mountain Foot - 1968
  • The Gangs of Kosmos - 1969 (winner of the 1969 Governor General's Award for Poetry)
  • Touch - 1971
  • Geneve - 1971
  • Curious - 1973
  • In the Flesh - 1974
  • The Catch - 1976
  • Allophanes - 1976
  • The Concrete Island: Montreal Poems - 1977
  • Another Mouth - 1979
  • The Mask In Place - 1982
  • West Window - 1982
  • Smoking Mirror 1982
  • Kerrisdale Ellegies - 1984
  • Seventy-One Poems for People - 1985
  • Delayed Mercy - 1986
  • Urban Snow - 1992
  • Parents from Space - 1994
  • Blondes on Bikes - 1997
  • Diamondback Dog - 1998
  • His Life - 2000 (Nominated for a Governor General's Award)

• Fiction
  • Mirror on the Floor - 1967
  • Autobiology - 1972
  • Flycatcher and other stories - 1974
  • A Short Sad Book - 1977
  • Concentric Circles - 1977
  • Protective Footwear - 1978
  • Burning Water - 1980 (winner of the 1980 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
  • A Place to Die - 1983
  • Caprice - 1988
  • Harry's Fragments - 1990
  • Shoot! - 1994
  • The Rain Barrel - 1994

• Non-Fiction
  • Al Purdy - 1970
  • Sa Way With Words - 1982
  • Craft Slices - 1985
  • Errata - 1988
  • Imaginary Hand - 1988
  • The Moustache: Memories of Greg Curnoe - 1993
  • Bowering's B.C: A Swashbuckling History - 1997
  • Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada - 1999
  • A Magpie Life: Growing a Writer - 2001