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TimBOWLING |
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Tim Bowling was born and raised near Vancouver, British Columbia and has lived in Edmonton, Alberta for many years. He is the author of twenty-five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and the recipient of numerous honours, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, five Alberta Book Awards, two nominations for the Writers Trust of Canada Awards, and two nominations for the Governor General's Award. His latest books are a collection of short stories, Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand (Freehand Press, 2025) and a poetry collection, In the Capital City of Autumn (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024).
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A boarder coughs in an attic room, a child’s fever breaks, dark branches gull the glass of an upstairs window, and someone reaches for the Seneca on the shelf.
Old houses.
Something is happening at the end of their long hallways: the heart of the past is foreclosing on itself.
From Selected Poems (Nightwood Editions, 2013)
This is the only letter God will ever send you. And if, opening it, you expect answers, advice, condolences, you will find a signature of bone. Otherwise, a great hunched watchfulness will leave your body, and perch on the black branch between stars.
From Selected Poems (Nightwood Editions, 2013)
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