Marilyn Bowering

Marilyn
Bowering

Marilyn Bowering, poet, novelist, playwright (b at Winnipeg, Man 13 Apr 1949). Marilyn Bowering was born in Winnipeg but grew up in Victoria, BC. She was educated at the University of Victoria, where she earned an MA in English. Bowering has lived in Europe, Great Britain and the United States but has always come back to her childhood home of Vancouver Island. She has taught creative writing and served as writer in residence at institutions across Canada, including Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Alberta. Marilyn Bowering is an accomplished poet, novelist and playwright. Marilyn Bowering's poems often explore dreams and external reality and the struggle to maintain a balance between these two worlds. Her first collection, The Liberation of Newfoundland (1973), has been followed by many others, including The Sunday Before Winter: New and Selected Poems (1984) and Human Bodies: New and Selected Poems 1987-1999.
Marilyn Bowering, poet, novelist, playwright (b at Winnipeg, Man 13 Apr 1949). Marilyn Bowering was born in Winnipeg but grew up in Victoria, BC. She was educated at the University of Victoria, where she earned an MA in English. Bowering has lived in Europe, Great Britain and the United States but has always come back to her childhood home of Vancouver Island. She has taught creative writing and served as writer in residence at institutions across Canada, including Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Alberta. Marilyn Bowering is an accomplished poet, novelist and playwright. Marilyn Bowering's poems often explore dreams and external reality and the struggle to maintain a balance between these two worlds. Her first collection, The Liberation of Newfoundland (1973), has been followed by many others, including The Sunday Before Winter: New and Selected Poems (1984) and Human Bodies: New and Selected Poems 1987-1999.
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