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Bowering was one of the judges for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize.

H.W. Wilson Co.; 1999. p. 186. In 2012, her book of poetry, Soul Mouth, was published."Marilyn Bowering, Soul Mouth". Malahat Review, Poetry Review by J. A. Weingarten In 2013 Bowering worked with composer Gavin Bryars to create the libretto for a chamber opera, Marilyn Forever, about Marilyn Monroe.

The book has also been credited with helping to popularize the term "biotext", a term coined by George Bowering.

Marilyn Bowering (born April 13, 1949) is a Canadian poet,Reviewing Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People. Vol. 12. Canadian Library Association; 1984. p. 252. novelist and playwright. As well as several adventure novels and many books of poetry, Bowering has also scripted a number of dramatic works and a libretto.

In 2012, Queensland finished third in the Gilley Shield. The state hosted the Mack Gilley Shield in Brisbane in 1947, 1953, 1959 and 1966. Women's open team members who represented Queensland at the 2008 Mack Gilley Shield include Jodie Bowering and Jocelyn McCallum. Women's open team members who represented Queensland at the 2012 Mack Gilley Shield include Jodie Bowering.

George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and raised in the nearby town of Oliver, where his father was a high-school chemistry teacher. Bowering is author of more than 100 books.

Ernest George Bowering (30 March 1891 – 23 November 1961) was a professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham and Merthyr Town.

In 1934, the Chapin family, descended from the Bentons, sold the house to WTIC radio host and University of Connecticut dietetics instructor Florrie Bishop Bowering. Bowering restored the house and lived there until she sold it in 1968 to William Shocket and Charles Goodstein. The new owners donated the property, house, and furnishings to the Tolland Historical Society on December 13, 1969. The house opened as a museum the following year.

In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. That same year, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 2004. When the Indian Hungryalist, also known as Hungry generation, poet Malay Roy Choudhury, was arrested at Kolkata, India, Bowering brought out a special issue of Imago for helping the Indian poet in his trial.

Bowering served in the Royal Navy, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force during the First World War. He finished the war with the rank of Corporal Mechanic.

Bowering is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey, Fred Wah, Jamie Reid, and David Dawson who studied together at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s. There they founded the journal TISH. Bowering lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, where he worked for 30 years. Never having written as an adherent of organized religion, he has in the past wryly described himself as a Baptist agnostic.

Victoria Times-Colonist, June 14, 2018. The band members are vocalist Bria Salmena, guitarist Duncan Hay Jennings, bassist Lucas Savatti and drummer Kris Bowering."Frigs is ready to move on from Toronto’s ‘Seattle moment’". The Globe and Mail, March 8, 2018.

Dianne Burge (née Bowering), (born 9 October 1943) is a former Australian sprinter who competed in two Olympic Games and won three gold medals at the Commonwealth Games. She was awarded the title South Australian 'Athlete of the Century' by Athletics South Australia.

Key Porter published books by authors including Farley Mowat, Claire Mowat, Allan Fotheringham, Conrad Black, Erika Ritter, Pamela Wallin, George Bowering, Diane Francis, Joan Barfoot, Maude Barlow, Stevie Cameron, Brian Lee Crowley, Dennis Lee, Mark Bourrie, Paul Cellucci, Jean Chrétien, M.A.C. Farrant and Cleo Paskal.

Members of the 1965 Australian national team from Queensland included Brisbane based Lorraine Woolley, who competed at the World Championships in 1965 and was named the player of the tournament. Members of the 2012 Australia women's national softball team from Queensland include Jodie Bowering and Jocelyn McCallum.

In 1976 he moved to Terrace in northern B.C., where he worked as an instructor in the English department at Coast Mountain College. In 1992 he moved back to Vancouver to teach at Capilano College. During this period, Stanley published books and was active in Canadian politics, unions, and the alternative media, and served as a board member of the Capilano Press Society, publisher of The Capilano Review. He also edited and contributed to the intergenerational Vancouver literary journal Tads (1996-2001), through which Stanley, George Bowering, Jamie Reid, and Renee Rodin mentored younger writers such as Thea Bowering, Wayde Compton, Reg Johanson, Ryan Knighton, Jason Le Heup, Chris Turnbull, and Karina Vernon.

She wrote This Timeless Moment, a biography of Huxley. She told the story of their marriage through Mary Ann Braubach's 2010 documentary, Huxley on Huxley. Huxley was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in 1960; in the years that followed, with his health deteriorating, he wrote the Utopian novel Island,Peter Bowering Aldous Huxley: A Study of the Major Novels, p.

In 1963, Adelaide sprinter Diane Bowering won the Australian 100-yard Championships in an upset. She was virtually unknown outside her home state but ended the year ranked as #3 in the world. She competed for Adelaide Harriers and was coached by Len Barnes who nicknamed her 'the twerp'Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Peter Goers' interview with Di Burge.

In 1987, Bowering wrote a book of poetic monologues, titled Anyone Can See I Love You, which was later adapted as a radio drama."'Marilyn Forever' opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars' collaborative spirit". Mike Boehm Los Angeles Times, Mar 13, 2015 In 1998 she wrote an adventure story, Visible Worlds, which received positive reviews.Juliana De Nooy.

The Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is appointed as an officer of the Library of Parliament. The position alternates between an English and French speaking laureate. Candidates must be able to write in both English and French, have a substantial publication history (including poetry) displaying literary excellence and have written work reflecting Canada, among other criteria. The first laureate was George Bowering, in 2002.

He is a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry, receiving nominations at the 2000 Governor General's Awards for Rest on the Flight into Egypt,"Atwood, Ondaatje, Bowering among nominees for Governor General's awards". Canadian Press, October 24, 2000. at the 2008 Governor General's Awards for The Sentinel,"Selected nominees for the Governor General's Literary Awards".

Published authors include Marshall McLuhan, Joyce Carol Oates, Irving Layton, Tom Wayman, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Frances Itani, W.D. Valgardson, David Helwig, Armand Garnet Ruffo, George Elliott Clarke, Jeanette Lynes, John B. Lee, W.P. Kinsella, Alden Nowlan, Bronwen Wallace, Phil Hall, Pat Lowther, George Bowering, Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane, David Helwig, George Elliott Clarke, Elizabeth Bartlett , Margaret Avison, Joy Kogawa, Marian Engel, Carl Dennis, Douglas Glover, Lyn Lifshin, and J. Jill Robinson.

After playing for the youth side Tottenham Thursday,Tottenham Hotspur F.C A-Z of players Retrieved 29 November 2012 Bowering joined Tottenham Hotspur where the left half appeared in seven matches in the second half of the 1911–12 season. He went on to sign for Fulham in October 1912,Fulham Bowering's transfer to Fulham Retrieved 1 May 2010 where he played one match before ending his career at Merthyr Town.

Michael Ernest BoweringCompanies House (25 June 1935 – 25 April 2015)Diocese of York was Archdeacon of LindisfarneChurch Times from 1987Diocese of Newcastle until 2000. Bowering was educated at Barnstaple Grammar School; Kelham Theological College; and York St John University College. After curacies in Middlesbrough and New Earswick he held incumbencies at Brayton and Saltburn by the Sea. He was a Canon Residentiary at York Minster from 1981 to 1987.

He flirts with Hilary Robinson (Anne Scott-Pendlebury) much to her annoyance. Rob misses the wedding due to a hangover, but redeems himself by giving Charlene indenture papers for a four-year apprenticeship at the garage as a wedding present. When Gail decides to look for her biological parents, Rob is upset at the idea. Gail is distraught to discover her biological mother, Louise is dead but finds her father, Ian Chadwick (Robin Bowering).

When Gerald Giampa was born on 4 March 1950, his parents lived in a tent in Duncan, British Columbia. His interest in printing books came from his grandfather, who liked to read. Giampa studied letterpress printing and typography under Wil Hudson and Nick Schwabe in Vancouver. From 1975 to 1981 Giampa's Cobblestone Press in Vancouver published not only jobbing printing but also works by Ezra Pound, Robin Blaser and George Bowering among others.

The Bowering Sports Hall was opened by Richard Bacon in 1998 and eleven years later, in May 2009, the new Sixth Form Centre opened. In 2016 the old dining hall building was demolished and replaced by a performing arts centre known as The Space, and named The Squire Performing Arts Centre, after an alumna, Dame Rosemary Squire. In 2020, a nursery was opened by the education innovator Shonette Bason-Wood.Bason-Wood's campaign.

Bennett tried for the British Columbia Conservative Party's South Okanagan nomination for the 1937 provincial election for the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, but was unsuccessful. For the 1941 election, he won the nomination and the election. Following the election, the Conservative and Liberal parties voted to henceforth govern in coalition, an arrangement formally titled the British Columbia Coalition Organization.Bowering's B.C.: A Swashbuckling History, by George Bowering, Toronto 1996, Penguin Canada, , pp. 300-301.

Between 1995 and 2008, Raincoast Books was also a Canadian book publisher. The Raincoast publishing program produced a range of fiction and non-fiction titles for both adults and children. Authors who published work with Raincoast included Anne Fleming, Alison Pick, Colin McAdam, Nick Bantock, George Bowering, Paul William Roberts, Naim Kattan, Roy Miki, Amanda K. Hale, and Bill Gaston. As a publisher, the company was noted for using large amounts of recycled paper in its books.

She has recently worked with Gavin Bryars again on a chamber opera Marilyn Forever based on Marilyn Monroe, with libretto by Marilyn Bowering and produced by Aventa (Canada) in which Eivør played the leading role.Bryars about the chamber opera Anyone can see I love you: gavinbryars.com Parts of this were developed during a workshop in Banff, Canada in June 2010 and two scenes were performed there on 12 June 2010.Workshop for new chamber opera: gavinbryars.

The Balinese Om symbol Sunni Muslim traders of the Shafi'i fiqh, as well as Sufi Muslim traders from India, Oman and Yemen brought Islam to Indonesia.Gerhard Bowering et al. (2012), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton University Press, , pp. xvi The earliest known mention of a small Islamic community midst the Hindus of Indonesia is credited to Marco Polo, about 1297 AD, whom he referred to as a new community of Moorish traders in Perlak.

Jade Wall, player number 1, alongside numbers 25 Chelsea Forkin and 27 Jodie Bowering, at a match between Japan and Australia on 21 March 2012. Wall is a member of Australia women's national softball team. She trained with the senior national team in 2006 before the senior team, whom she did not accompany, went to Beijing and earned a bronze medal at the world softball championships. She toured with the team in Canada and the United States in 2009.

Talonbooks is an independent publisher of Canadian literature based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its repertoire features authors writing in the literary genres of poetry, fiction and drama, as well as non-fiction books in the fields of ethnography, environmental and social issues, cultural studies, and literary criticism. Notable Talonbooks authors include Michel Tremblay, George Ryga, bpNichol, George Bowering, bill bissett, Daphne Marlatt, George F. Walker, M.A.C. Farrant and Mary Meigs. The company started as a magazine called Talon in 1963.

Prior to 1947, Queen's teams were commonly referred to as "The Tricolour." The "Golden Gaels" name was coined in 1947 by Kingston Whig- Standard sports reporter Cliff Bowering, after the football team traded its traditional uniform of red, gold, and blue bands for gold jerseys, gold helmets, and red pants. The name caught on and became the familiar term for Queen's teams by the 1950s. "Gaels" is a reference to Queen's Scottish heritage (Queen's University was established in 1841 by the Presbyterian church).

She discovers that her real mother Louise Hampstead has died, but finds her biological father, Ian Chadwick (Robin Bowering). Rob is jealous of Ian's presence but soon accepts it. Rob is involved in a fatal car crash and dies and the blame falls on Paul. When Gail learns The two had been engaged in a vicious argument where Paul accused Rob of dealing in stolen car parts, and Rob had stormed off in a rage, culminating in the car accident.

Baie Verte is one of 42 communities that make up the Emerald Zone which is located in the North Central portion of Newfoundland. Baie Verte dates to the late 19th century, but remained a small village until the discovery of asbestos and other ore bodies of copper, lead, zinc and gold in the mid-1950s when the town underwent major expansion. Bowering Brother's steamers called in the area in the 1950s to transport the ore found here. It became a town in 1968.

Taufiq Tanasaldy, Regime Change and Ethnic Politics in Indonesia, Brill Academic, Four diverse and contentious Islamic Sultanates emerged in north Sumatra (Aceh), south Sumatra, west and central Java, and in southern Borneo (Kalimantan).Gerhard Bowering et al., The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton University Press, The violence ended the Hindu- Buddhist kingdoms and communities in many of the islands of Indonesia. In other cases, Hindus and Buddhists left and concentrated as communities in islands that they could defend.

Bennett opened a hardware store in 1927, in partnership with another man, and married May Bennett soon afterwards.Bowering's B.C.: A Swashbuckling History, by George Bowering, Toronto 1996, Penguin Canada, , pp. 300. Bennett sold his interest just before the 1929 Stock Market crash, fled the tough Alberta economic conditions, and soon moved to Kelowna, British Columbia where he opened his own hardware store, Bennett's Hardware. A successful merchant, he served as President of the Kelowna Board of Trade from 1937 to 1939.

Grain published its first issue in June 1973, a gestetner edition with stapled, taped bindings, and with cover art on a card-stock cover by a then new artist Joe Fafard. The first edition, edited by Ken Mitchell, Anne Szumigalski, and Caroline Heath included writings by Robert Kroetsch, George Bowering, Robert Currie, and John V. Hicks, and cost $1.00. A subscription cost $2 a year, or $5 for three years. This was the first of a series of semi-annual issues.

Intercourse, subtitled Contemporary Canadian Writing, was a literary magazine published in Montreal from 1966 to 1971. In all 14 issues appeared. The magazine was established and edited by Raymond Fraser and LeRoy Johnson, and had a number of guest editors, including Alden Nowlan, Al Pittman, Louis Cormier, and Bernell MacDonald. Among the contributors were such Canadian literary figures as Irving Layton, Al Purdy, Elizabeth Brewster, Leonard Cohen, Hugh Hood, Marty Gervais, John Glassco, Patrick Lane, Robert Hawkes, Silver Donald Cameron, Fred Cogswell, George Bowering and Seymour Mayne.

It also touches upon Purdy's quest to become a great Canadian poet, and the artists wrapped up in his legacy. In addition to archival footage of Purdy, the film also features writers Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering and Joseph Boyden, actor Gordon Pinsent, and musicians Gordon Downie, Bruce Cockburn, Jesse Zubot, Sarah Harmer, Tanya Tagaq and Doug Paisley. The film debuted at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was named second runner-up for the People's Choice Award for Documentaries.

Apostasy in Islam (, or , ) is commonly defined as the conscious abandonment of Islam by a Muslim in word or through deed.Frank Griffel, Apostasy, in (Editor: Gerhard Bowering et al.) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, , pp. 40–41Diane Morgan (2009), Essential Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice, , pp. 182–83 It includes the act of converting to another religion or non-acceptance of faith to be irreligious, by a person who was born in a Muslim family or who had previously accepted Islam.

Other events that made interesting headlines were: "The Loss of the Swallow" which was the story of the Coley's Point fishing vessel, The Swallow, owned and mastered by John Bowering and his crew, all from Coley's Point, who were driven to sea in the Atlantic during a hurricane in September, 1915. After many days adrift, they were rescued from their sinking vessel by a passing ocean liner and brought to England, and after being given up for lost, they arrived home on Christmas Eve that same year.

He also founded the literary magazine The Sphynx. From 1975 to 1977 he and David Arnason produced the radio program Canadian Writers Symposium, for which they interviewed 45 Canadian writers, including well-known figures such as Milton Acorn, George Bowering, Patrick Lane, Daphne Marlatt, W.O. Mitchell, P.K. Page, Al Purdy, and Adele Wiseman. He published numerous newspaper and magazine articles, and dozens of critical reviews. In 1983, his first novel, Figures on a Wharf, was short-listed for the Books in Canada First Novel Award.canadianauthors.

Apart from their strong interconnections with the Beats, the Black Mountain poets influenced the course of later American poetry via their importance for the poets later identified with the Language School. They were also important for the development of innovative British poetry since the 1960s, as evidenced by such poets as Tom Raworth and J. H. Prynne. In Canada, the Vancouver-based TISH group, including George Bowering and Daphne Marlatt, were heavily influenced by the Black Mountain poets. Modern projectivist poets include Charles Potts.

His first book, River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage, won the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize,"Respect at last for non- fiction: winner". The Gazette, March 7, 2001. the Canadian Booksellers Association's Libris Award for Best First-Time Author, the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award and the Regina Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2000 Governor General's Awards."McKay's Wilcox on GG's list: Atwood, Ondaatje, Bowering among nominees for Governor General's awards".

Bennett was born in Hastings, New Brunswick, Canada, one of five children of Andrew Havelock Bennett and Mary Emma Burns. His father was a third cousin of Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada. He left formal school in grade nine, during the First World War, to take a job in a hardware store, but would pursue correspondence courses as an adult to improve his knowledge and job potential.Bowering's B.C.: A Swashbuckling History, by George Bowering, Toronto 1996, Penguin Canada, , pp. 299-300.

Michael Laffan, The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past, Princeton University Press, , pp. 3-6Taufiq Tanasaldy, Regime Change and Ethnic Politics in Indonesia, Brill Academic, Four diverse and contentious Islamic Sultanates emerged in north Sumatra (Aceh), south Sumatra, west and central Java, and in southern Borneo (Kalimantan).Gerhard Bowering et al., The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton University Press, These Sultanates declared Islam as their state religion and against each other as well as the Hindus and other non-Muslim infidels.

The Thirteenth Canadian Ministry was the second cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Arthur Meighen. It governed Canada from 29 June 1926 to 25 September 1926, including only the last three months of the 15th Canadian Parliament, all cabinet ministers were acting cabinet ministers as Meighen hadn't been given the confidence of the house, and any cabinet ministers appointed by him would have had to resign their seats and run for re-election.Egotists and Autocrats, Bowering, George, p. 222, 10th Penguin printing The government was formed by the old Conservative Party of Canada.

In 1991, Bindon accepted the position of Principal of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, the West Coast campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland. On 1 November 1997, Bindon become President of Okanagan University College, succeeding Dr. Bill Bowering. Between 1997 and 2004 she oversaw significant growth in the institution, including obtaining recognition from the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Under her stewardship external research funding grew from virtually nothing to $6.8 million in 2004-2005.

In June 1850 two elders, Gilbert Clements and John Lindsay, were sent to Belfast to revive what was left of the church and missionary efforts. The branch in that area had disestablished itself and did not have a public place to hold meetings. The missionaries obtained a chapel that had previously been owned by the Baptist Church. At the same time that Clements and Lindsay were regathering the saints in Belfast, Elders Sutherland and Bowering were sent to preach in Dublin and were the first missionaries in that area.

A grass-roots movement to preserve Purdy's A-frame cottage in Ameliasburgh has been organized by Jean Baird (wife of poet George Bowering) and Purdy's publisher Howard White of Harbour Publishing, who together founded the A-Frame Trust with the intent of raising $1 million to preserve the house as a memorial to Purdy and a writing retreat for other writers.Save Al Purdy's House Campaign The campaign is profiled in Brian D. Johnson's 2015 documentary film Al Purdy Was Here."Al Purdy lives in the present in film premiering at TIFF". The Globe and Mail, September 14, 2015.

He met other poets at the University of British Columbia such as George Bowering, Fred Wah, Frank Davey, David Dawson, and Jamie Reid, and they encouraged him to write and publish his work. At the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Festival Bromige met Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Duncan. The result of this endeavor led to the publication of many poems. Robert Hass, the chairman of the Western States Book Award Committee, wrote glowingly of his work and chose his 1988 book, Desire: Selected Poems, 1963-1987 to win the first prize for poetry.

MTP held the first poetry manuscript contest in Canada. Judges included Daphne Marlatt, Brian Brett, Phyllis Webb, Susan Musgrave, Cathy Ford, Charles Lillard, P. K. Page, Robert Kroetsch and Marilyn Bowering. First and 2nd prize manuscripts were published in beautiful signed limited editions. By 2007 twenty-eight (m)Öthêr Tøñgué Press chapbooks and broadsides by Canadian writers were available by; Stephanie Bolster, Lorna Crozier, Kate Braid, Cathy Ford, Maxine Gadd, Shirley Graham, Penn Kemp, Robert Kroetsch, Sylvia Legris, Peter Levitt, Sandi Frances Duncan, Patricia Young, Daphne Marlatt, Susan McCaslin, P.K. Page, Murray Reiss, Nadine Shelly, Peter Such and Phyllis Webb.

It is understood as marking the beginning of human consciousness with mankind making their first conscious response to the divine question 'Am I not your lord?'. Some also see it as being relevant to the Islamic principle of Tawhid or unity as the entirety of mankind was said to have been assembled on this date. Another perspective is that as an Abrahamic faith, the covenant was made with Abraham. Any person confessing to faith can become a Muslim and partake of this covenant with God: Gerhard Bowering has written about the mystical aspects of the Covenant in Islam.

Oberon Press is an independent Canadian literary publisher founded in 1966.Canadian Encyclopedia It focuses mainly on Canadian fiction—particularly short stories—and poetry, but also publishes criticism, history, biography and autobiography.Oberon Press web site Oberon has published early work by Canadian writers such as David Adams Richards, Wayne Johnston, Peter Behrens, Hugh Hood, David Helwig, bpNichol, George Bowering and W.P. Kinsella. Two short-story anthologies, Best Canadian Stories and Coming Attractions, feature the work of established and new Canadian writers. Oberon’s national restaurant guide, Where to Eat in Canada, published annually since 1971, has sold more than 150,000 copies.

Others such as Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, and Earle Birney, already published, produced some of their best work during this period. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw greater experimentation from poets such as bpNichol, David UU, Joe Rosenblatt, Steve McCaffery, Judith Copithorne and bill bissett. The TISH Poetry movement in Vancouver brought about poetic innovation from Jamie Reid, George Bowering, Fred Wah, Frank Davey, Daphne Marlatt, David Cull, and Lionel Kearns. Since the 1990s, several Governor General's Award-winning poets, in particular Jan Zwicky and Tim Lilburn, have been engaged in nonfiction writing that maps the relationships between poetry and philosophy.

The company was founded as Coach House Press in 1965 by artist Stan Bevington. It is known for publishing early works by writers such as Fred Wah, Daphne Marlatt, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Ann-Marie MacDonald, George Bowering, Nicole Brossard, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Christopher Dewdney, bpNichol and Anne Michaels, Darren O'Donnell, Sean DixonSean Dixon, Greg MacArthur, Matthew Heiti and Amiel Gladstone. Coach House was at the centre of a number of innovations in the use of digital technology in publishing and printing, from computerized phototypesetting to desktop publishing. Notably, the pioneering SGML/XML company, SoftQuad, was founded by Coach House's Stan Bevington and colleagues Yuri Rubinsky and David Slocombe.

Others such as Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, and Earle Birney, already published, produced some of their best work during this period. The TISH Poetry movement in Vancouver brought about poetic innovation from Jamie Reid, George Bowering, Fred Wah, Frank Davey, Daphne Marlatt, David Cull, and Lionel Kearns. The former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke (2015) Canadian poets has been expanding the boundaries of originality: Christian Bök, Ken Babstock, Karen Solie, Lynn Crosbie, Patrick Lane, George Elliott Clarke and Barry Dempster have all imprinted their unique consciousnesses onto the map of Canadian imagery. A notable anthology of Canadian poetry is The New Oxford book of Canadian Verse, edited by Margaret Atwood ().

Low Profile were a New Zealand alternative rock band of the 1980s, formed by Phil Bowering (formerly of The Protons) and Steve Garden (Last Man Down, National Anthem), recording on the Jayrem label. The band's lineup included - among others - the late Mike Farrell on guitar and vocals, Tom Ludvigson (the Jive Bombers, Snap, Bluespeak, Trip to the Moon) and Stuart Pearce (Coconut Rough). Low Profile released two albums - Quiet Streets (1982) and Elephunkin' (1987), but are best remembered for their quirky single Elephunk In My Soup(mixed in Feb. 1984, released in 1984) with its unlikely instrumentation of hosepipe, slap bass and synthesizers, which was a staple of student radio in 1984.

In June 1995, for Blaser's 70th birthday, a conference was held in Vancouver to pay tribute to his contribution to Canadian poetry. The conference, known as the "Recovery of the Public World" (a phrase borrowed from Hannah Arendt), was attended by poets from around the world, including Canadian poets Michael Ondaatje, Steve McCaffery, Phyllis Webb, George Bowering, Fred Wah, Stan Persky and Daphne Marlatt; and poets who reside in the United States, including Michael Palmer and Norma Cole (who was born in Canada, subsequently migrating to San Francisco). Blaser was also well known as the editor of The Collected Books of Jack Spicer, which includes Blaser's essay, The Practice of Outside. The 1993 publication The Holy Forest represents his collected poems to that date.

In the early 1960s she became acquainted with an informal group of "Downtown Poets," including writers such as Gladys (Maria) Hindmarch, John Newlove, bill bissett, Gerry Gilbert, Maxine Gadd and Roy Kiyooka, centered around the Vancouver venues of Sound Gallery, Motion Studio and Intermedia Press. The Downtown Poets were involved in more radical experimentation than the established TISH group of the University of British Columbia, represented by poets such as George Bowering, Fred Wah, Frank Davey and Daphne Marlatt. The appellation "Downtown poets" was invented by UBC professor Warren Tallman to distinguish the San Francisco Renaissance- influenced UBC writers from the homegrown Canadian poets. Judith Copithorne has made many contributions to concrete poetry and other types of experimental writing in prose, poetry and visual poetry, with works centering on domestic space and community.

Penalties (actual or proposed) for apostasy in some Muslim-majority countries as of 2013. Apostasy in Islam is commonly defined as the conscious abandonment of Islam by a Muslim in word or through deed.Frank Griffel, Apostasy, in (Editor: Gerhard Bowering et al.) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, , pp 40–41; Diane Morgan (2009), Essential Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice, , pages 182–183Hebatallah Ghali (2006), Rights of Muslim Converts to Christianity PhD Thesis, Department of Law, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, page 2; "Whereas apostate (murtad) is the person who commits apostasy ('rtidad), that is the conscious abandonment of allegiance, and renunciation of a religious faith or abandonment of a previous loyalty". A majority considers apostasy in Islam to be some form of religious crime, although a minority does not.

In England, two special purpose de Havilland DH.88 Comet racers were built by Geoffrey de Havilland (Robin Bowering) for the teams of Captain Tom Campbell Black (Robert Reynolds) and Flight Lt. C. W. A. Scott (Tim Hughes) as well as the husband and wife team of Jim (Jonathan Hyde) and Amy Mollison (Caroline Goodall). Many other entries from England were production aircraft that could not compete with the Comets. The other serious contenders were from the United States where celebrity pilots such as Roscoe Turner (Barry Bostwick), Clyde Pangborn (David Arnett) and Jacqueline Cochran (Helen Slater) were entered with potent long-distance racing aircraft. The most unusual entry was from KLM with a Douglas DC-2 airliner that would fly the course as part of a proving flight to establish the efficiency and safety of the airline.

A year later, Bowering ran second in the national 100y title and earned a place in the Australian team for the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. At the Games, she did not progress past the second round of the 100 metres, but made the final of the 4 × 100 metres relay with the Australian team.Athletics Australia profile Now married and running as Dianne Burge, she starred in the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, winning gold medals at 100 yards, 220 yards and in the 4x110 yards relay. At the end of the year, she was world-ranked #6 for 100 metres and #5 for 200 metres. In 1967, she won the 100 m and 200 m at the United States versus British Commonwealth meet in Los Angeles, beating Olympic champion Wyomia Tyus and was ranked #2 in the world for 100 m and #3 for 200 m by Track and Field News.

He was formally in the employ of the Department of External Affairs until 1959, though for several years during that time he was seconded by the Department of Finance to serve as Secretary for the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects (the "Gordon Commission"); his work drafting the multi-volume Report of the commission was widely praised. LePan left the diplomatic service in 1959 to return to academic life; he taught at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and at the University of Toronto, where he was Principal of University College (1964–1970) and then University Professor and Senior Fellow at Massey College. LePan's wartime experience with the Canadian Army in Italy inspired much of his poetry and one novel, The Deserter (1964). LePan is one of only a few people (Michael Ondaatje and George Bowering are two others) to have won the Governor General's Award both for poetry (1953 for The Net and the Sword) and fiction (1964 for The Deserter, in a highly controversial win over Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel).