TIM BOWLING SHORTLISTED FOR ALBERTA LITERARY AWARD

24 April 2007

Gaspereau Press is pleased to announce that Tim Bowling’s Fathom (Gaspereau Press, 2006) has been shortlisted for the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. The award is one of seven Alberta Literary Awards given annually. This year’s jurors selected 21 finalists from over 90 submissions representing work by Alberta authors published in 2006. Fellow nominees for the poetry award are Alice Major of Edmonton for The Occupied World (University of Alberta Press) and Birk Sproxton of Red Deer for Headframe: 2 (Turnstone Press).

The Alberta Literary Awards were created to recognize and celebrate the highest standards of literary excellence from the province’s authors. The winners in all seven categories will be announced at the awards gala to be held Saturday 29 September 2007 at the Quality Hotel & Conference Centre in Grande Prairie. There will also be two public readings featuring the shortlisted authors, the first to be held at 7:00 pm on Tuesday 29 May 2007 at Audreys Books (10702 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton) and the second at 7:00 pm on Wednesday 30 May 2007 at McNally Robinson Booksellers (120 8th Avenue SW, Calgary). For more information about the awards, please visit the Guild’s website: www.writersguild.ab.ca

BACKGROUND
Gaspereau Press is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design. Its publications have won numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Evelyn Richardson Prize, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Alberta Book Award for short fiction, and numerous Alcuin Awards for excellence in book design.

Fathom

takes stock of memories, ancestors and friends, years spent and fish caught. Amidst the drama of the salmon fishery that is his heritage and was once his occupation, Tim Bowling navigates the culverts, rivers and harbours that lend a fluid tumble to his verse. Bowling’s poetry progresses in the rhythms of his subjects, pulled by the coursing of generations through the decades and of a river along its banks. Offering fresh variations on subjects that have spurred his poetry from his very first collection, Tim Bowling’s latest is characterized by strong narratives and a potent lyric energy. The book was awarded a third place in this year’s Alcuin Awards.

For more information, contact:
Beth Crosby, Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue, Kentville, NS, B4N 2M7
(902) 678-6002 | booksales@gaspereau.com
www.gaspereau.com

Gaspereau Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture & Heritage, and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program.