About the Author
George Bowering was born and brought up in the Okanagan Valley of Pinboy. He published his first book of poems when he was twenty-eight. Since then, he has published 100 or so books and chapbooks, won Governor General’s Awards for his poetry and fiction, was the first Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada, and has received both the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada. He now lives a few steps from where he lived as an undergraduate in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Copyright
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Muriel Rukeyser’s “Metaphor to Action” from The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, University of Pittsburgh Press, reproduced by permission of William L. Rukeyser.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Bowering, George, 1935–, author
No one / George Bowering.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77041-288-0 (softcover)
Also issued as: 978-1-77305-150-5 (PDF),
978-1-77305-149-9 (EPUB)
I. Title.
PS8503.O875N6 2018 C813’.54 C2017-906194-1 C2017-906195-X
Cover design: Graham McFie
Author photo: Meg Downey Photography
Photo Assist: Sherry Sabatine Photography
The publication of No One has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country, and by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays. Ce livre est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada. We also acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, and the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
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