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Selected Poems by Bowling, Tim, 1964- is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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With Selected Poems , Tim Bowling has gathered together his finest poems over a twenty-year period, a selection including work from his widely celebrated debut collection, Low Water Slack , in 1995, to his tenth collection, Tenderman , in 2011. Always a poet of intense emotion and surprising metaphor whose lyric-narrative voice ranges in tone from romantic to humorous to coldly tragic and unrelievedly dark, Bowling's integrity has never wavered, nor has his commitment to celebrating poetic tradition and the land and waterscapes of his cherished West Coast. Selected Poems is unabashedly musical, image-rich and ambitious; poems of the natural world, childhood, family, death, and the pleasures and rigours of art lead into ever-deeper explorations of history, society and middle age, but the faith in the power of language to convey something essential about life remains consistent. This is a book whose pages are viscerally alive with concrete, physical sensations; you can hear the seagulls, smell the wet cedar and brine, and see the sun sink on the great salmon runs with "the clunk of a cue ball." Bowling's particular ability to make his place come alive and to transfer that vitality in

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Author

Bowling, Tim, 1964-

Publisher

Partners Pub Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780889712782

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.29 / 5 (75 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14