Finalist! 2001 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
His Life
by George Bowering
Publisher: ECW Press
His Life is a collection of autobiographical poems, each with a date and location, which takes the reader through the life and thoughts of the first-ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. From the disquiet of a child in a fractured home to the pleasure of standing in the right field during baseball practice, His Life covers the spectrum of exerperience in such a way as to make George Bowering’s life seem as important and mundane as anyone else’s. More