2 October 2007
Tim Bowling Wins Alberta Book Award

Gaspereau Press is delighted to announce that Tim Bowling’s Fathom (Gaspereau Press, 2006) was named winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry at the Writers Guild of Alberta’s awards gala on Saturday 29 September 2007 in Grande Prairie. The award is one of seven Alberta Literary Awards given annually. Fellow nominees for the poetry award were 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. 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 several 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 at Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue, Kentville, NS, B4N 2M7
902-678-6002, info@gaspereau.com