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  • Governor-General's Award for Poetry, 1969.
  • Governor-General's Award for Fiction, 1980.
  • bp Nichol Chapbook award for poetry, 1991.
  • bp Nichol Chapbook award for poetry, 1992.
  • Canadian Authors' Association Award for Poetry, 1993.
  • Honorary Degree (D. Litt.), University of British Columbia, 1994.
  • Appointed as the first Canadian resident Poet Laureate on Parliament Hill for a two year term, November 8, 2002-2004.
  • Order of British Columbia, 2004

George Bowering's works copyright © to the author.


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