Selected Poems _history the only oasis in an

the only oasis in an abandoned city being claimed by water

Victoria Times-Colonist

but reading

Spencer Gordon’s poetry debut

tight composition

Selected Poems _history the only oasis in anDescription With Selected Poems, Tim Bowling has gathered together his finest poems over a twenty year period, a selection including work from his widely celebrated debut collection, Low Water Slack, in 1995, to his tenth collection, Tenderman, in 2011. Always a poet of intense emotion and surprising metaphor whose lyric narrative voice ranges in tone from romantic to humorous to coldly tragic and unrelievedly dark, Bowling's integrity has never