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Bowling's vision
yet avoids sentimentality
The poems talk about togetherness as they pound each other apart
a young woman watches her grandparents begin to decline
5 in - 128 pp
The Witness Ghost Jaimie McEvoy Bowling's visionDescription The Witness Ghost is Tim Bowling's most unified collection of poems since his widely praised debut, Low Water Slack (Nightwood, 1995). Here, in an extended sequence of powerful elegies, he traces his feelings of loss, bewilderment and anger at the death of his father, a man who spent his working life as a salmon fisherman on British Columbia's majestic Fraser River. Borne back into a past of old wharves, boats, nets and ripening