George Bowering, My Darling Nellie Grey

August 17, 2011

by Ryukan

George Bowering is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. The author of more than 90 books, Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal TISH. On SPLAB Presents for the week of August 15, 2011 George talks about his new book My Darling Nellie Grey. See more interviews here: https://cascadiapoeticslab.org/2010/11/interviews/ and listen for SPLAB Presents Thursdays at 4:30P on KBCS.FM.

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