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Author: Tim Bowling
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Nov 2002
 | Darkness and Silence
by Tim Bowling
Nightwood Editions
78 pages $22.93 paper
ISBN: 0889711755
|  | Downriver Drift
by Tim Bowling
Harbour Publishing
254 pages $21.12 paper
ISBN: 1550172204
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A River and Surrounding Life
by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
Pic Tim Bowling
As a poet, Tim Bowling has undeniable gifts: lyric strength, directness, musicality, and a confident sense of gesture. He has an inclination towards too-useful archetypes (strong, silent fathers; the mystery of feminine wisdom), but can usually keep that in check. In his most recent collection, Darkness and Silence, I hear the influence of Yeats, more than anyone. Not mystical, spirit-tapping Yeats, but the grave, grand, sombre poet who believes in simplicity Read more...
| JanFeb 2003
Outside the Petri Dish of the Poetic Imagination
by Andrew Steinmetz
Where the Words Come From: owes its existence to Tim Bowling who modestly asserts in the introduction that his role in the entire production "was a minor one." This is far from the truth. Bowling set out to mark the loss of Al Purdy in 2000 by first soliciting "A collection of interviews pairing younger and/or less well-known poets with some of our countries most celebrated practitioners of the art." The pairings cover a wide range, from Avison to Zwicky. Read more...
| Nov 2006
 | The Good Bacteria
by Sharon Thesen
Anansi
96 pages $18.95 paper
ISBN: 0887847463
|  | Fathom
by Tim Bowling
Gaspereau Press
96 pages $18.95 paper
ISBN: 1554470161
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Giddy Vertigo
by Bryan Sentes
Bowling and Thesen both anchor their latest volumes on Canada's Pacific coast. Bowling's thirty-four poems might be taken to be yet another rewriting of Wordsworth's Prelude, relating as it does the narrative of his childhood and youth at the mouth of the Fraser River from his present-life perspective as a father in Edmonton. Thesen's collection is looser, four sequences framing twenty-nine poems. However similar the matter of the two poets, their manners seem vigorously opposed. Read more...
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