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Poetry English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Alchemy of Happiness

by (author) Marilyn Bowering

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2002
Category
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, General, Canadian
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770706231
    Publish Date
    Dec 2002
    List Price
    $8.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888784353
    Publish Date
    Dec 2002
    List Price
    $13.95

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In her new volume of verse, Bowering continues her rigorous, ambitious path and delivers poems that blend a variety of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness. Like an alchemist of old, she transmutes experiences, perceptions, and perspectives into something richer and rarer despite the passage of years and the loss and death they have brought.

About the author

Marilyn Bowering has had two previous volumes of poetry nominated for the Governor General's Award: Autobiography and The Sunday Before Winter. The former also won the Pat Lowther Award. Her novel Visible Worlds received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize. Bowering is also the author of Human Bodies: New and Selected Poems and the novel To All Appearances A Lady. She lives in Sooke, British Columbia.

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