{"product_id":"writing-the-okanagan-paperback","title":"Writing the Okanagan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Bowering\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bowering was born in Penticton, where his great-grandfather Willis Brinson lived, and Bowering has never been all that far from the Okanagan Valley in his heart and imagination. Early in the twenty-first century, he was made a permanent citizen of Oliver. Bowering has family up and down the Valley, and he goes there as often as he can. He has been asked during his many visits to Okanagan bookstores over the years to publish a collection of his writing about the Valley. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting the Okanagan\u003c\/em\u003e draws on forty books Bowering has published since 1960 - poetry, fiction, history, and some forms he may have invented. Selections from \u003cem\u003eDelsing \u003c\/em\u003e(1961) and \u003cem\u003eSticks \u0026amp; Stones\u003c\/em\u003e (1962) are here, as is \"Driving to Kelowna\" from \u003cem\u003eThe Silver Wire \u003c\/em\u003e(1966). Other Okanagan towns, among them Rock Creek, Peachland, Vernon, Kamloops, Princeton, and Osoyoos, inspire selections from work published through the 1970s and on to 2013. Fairview, the old mining site near Oliver, is the focus of an excerpt from \u003cem\u003eCaprice\u003c\/em\u003e (1987, 2010), one volume in Bowering's trilogy of historical novels. \"Desert Elm\" takes as its two main subjects the Okanagan Valley and his father, who, as Bowering did, grew up there. With the addition of some previously unpublished works, the reader will find the wonder of the Okanagan here, in both prose and poetry.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bowering, Canada's first Poet Laureate, was born in the Okanagan Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as an aerial photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bowering earned a BA in English and an MA in history at the University of British Columbia, where he became one of the co-founders of the avant-garde poetry magazine \u003cem\u003eTISH\u003c\/em\u003e. He has taught literature at the University of Calgary, the University of Western Ontario, and Simon Fraser University, and he continues to act as a Canadian literary ambassador at international conferences and readings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA distinguished novelist, poet, editor, professor, historian, and tireless supporter of fellow writers, Bowering has authored more than eighty books, including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography and youth fiction. His writing has also been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Romanian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBowering has twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary prize. In 2019 he received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 21, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772962865440,"sku":"9780889229419","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6c59f3ba680ca58cfd7cfd845cd45c9d.webp?v=1780417320","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/writing-the-okanagan-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}