Book description
In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous,
ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of
personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance
she sees as happiness. Like an alchemist of old, she transmutes
experiences, perceptions, and perspectives into something richer and
rarer despite the passage of years and the loss and death they have brought.
Marilyn Bowering has had two previous volumes of poetry nominated
for the Governor General's Award: Autobiography and The
Sunday Before Winter. The former also won the Pat Lowther Award.
Her novel Visible Worlds received the Ethel Wilson Fiction
Prize and was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize. Bowering
is also the author of Human Bodies: New and Selected Poems and
the novel To All Appearances a Lady. She lives in Sooke,
British Columbia.
