George Bowering

George Bowering: lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and was Canada’s first Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He has, twice, won Canada’s top literary prize, the Governor General’s Award for both poetry and fiction and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2005.  He was one of the co-founders of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH.  His 36th book of poetry, The World, I Guess(New Star, 2015) shows he is still in MVP form as he approaches his 83th birthday.