Marilyn Bowering

WORKS

POETRY

The Alchemy of Happiness. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002.

Breaking the Surface. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis Press, 2000.

Human Bodies: New and Collected Poems, 1987-1999. Vancouver, BC: Beach Holme Publishers, 1999.

Autobiography. Victoria, BC: Beach Holme Publishers, 1996.

Interior Castle. Victoria, BC: Published for the Hawthorne Society by Reference West, 1994.

Love As It Is. Victoria, BC: Porcepic, 1993.

Calling All The World: Laika & Folchakov, 1957. Victoria, BC: Porcepic Books, 1989.

Anyone Can See I Love You. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1987.

Grandfather Was a Soldier. Victoria, BC: Press Porcépic, 1987.

The Sunday Before Winter: The New and Selected Poetry of Marilyn Bowering. Toronto: General Pub., 1984.

Giving Back Diamonds. Victoria, BC: Press Porcépic, 1982.

Sleeping With Lambs. Victoria, BC: Press Porcépic, 1980.

The Visitors Have All Returned. Erin, ON: Press Porcépic, 1979.

The Book of Glass. Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press, 1978.

Third Child; Zian. Knotting, England: Sceptre Press, 1978.

The Killing Room. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis Press, 1977.

One Who Became Lost. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1976.

Down From the Sun. microform. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1975.

The Liberation of Newfoundland. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973.

OTHER WORKS

Cat's Pilgrimmage. Toronto: HarperPerennial, 2005.

The Raven Spreads Its Wings. Vancouver: Pooka Press, 2005.

To All Appearances A Lady. Toronto: Random House, 1989.

Bowering, Marilyn, and David Day, eds. Many Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Indian Poetry. Vancouver: J.J. Douglas, 1977.

CRITICISM

Berger, Carol. “Visible Worlds.” Quill & Quire 63.9 (1997): 67.

Burke, Anne, ed. Reinventing Memory, 1993. Toronto: Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets,
1994.

Donovan, Rita. Rev. of The Night Before Winter: The New And Selected Poetry Of Marilyn Bowering, by
Marilyn Bowering. Journal of Canadian Poetry 1 (1986): 21-4.

Hall, Phil. Rev. of Anyone Can See I Love You, by Marilyn Bowering. Books in Canada 16.6 (1987): 27-8.

Hatch, Ronald. Rev. of Anyone Can See I Love You, by Marilyn Bowering. University of Toronto
Quarterly 58.1 (1988): 44-5.

Johnson, Terry. Rev. of Anyone Can See I Love You, by Marilyn Bowering. Western Report 2.27 (1987):
50.

Mason, Michael. Rev. of Grandfather Was a Soldier, by Marilyn Bowering. Canadian Literature 122-3
(1989): 2180-20.

Rev. of Love As It Is, by Marilyn Bowering. Books in Canada 22.9 (1993): 37-8.

Rev. of Love As It Is, by Marilyn Bowering. Quarry 44.1 (1995): 121-32.

Sweatman, Margaret. Rev. of Calling All The World: Laika And Folchakov, by Marilyn Bowering. Journal
of Canadian Poetry 6 (1991): 26-30.

Woodcock, George. Rev. of Giving Back Diamonds, by Marilyn Bowering. Canadian Literature 98
(1983): 96-8.

Yarrow, Susan. “A Marilyn Bowering Interview.” Waves: Fine Canadian Writing 8.2 (1980): 43-50.

AWARDS

1994: Malahat Review Long Poem Prize

1988: National Magazine Award, poetry

1978: National Magazine Award, poetry

BIOGRAPHY

Marilyn Bowering was born in 1949 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Victoria, British Columbia. In 1973, she graduated from the University of Victoria with her MA in English Literature. She has published eight books of poetry, two of which, Autobiography (1996) and The Sunday Before Winter (1984), were nominated for the Governor General's Award. She has also received the Du Maurier poetry prize. She also writes fiction and drama, and is involved in the Writers in Electronic Residence Project. She currently lives in Sooke, British Columbia, and teaches at the University of Victoria.

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