New Books In Poetry

Tim Bowling is the award-winning author of the poetry collection In the Capital City of Autumn (Wolsak & Wynn, April 9, 2024). Tim is the author of twenty-four works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He is the recipient of numerous honours, including two Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund Awards, five Alberta Book Awards, a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, two Writers’ Trust of Canada nominations, two Governor General’s Award nominations and a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of his entire body of work. In the Capital City of Autumn is an absorbing collection of poems that show Bowling’s mastery of language and imagery. Now living in Edmonton, Tim spent the first thirty years of his life in the town of Ladner, BC, at the mouth of the Fraser River, where he worked in the salmon fishing industry. His love of the natural world, along with his love of language, and his experiences as a child and as a father of three children (now young adults) all reveal themselves in his unmistakably transcendent poems