Tim Bowling has published numerous poetry collections, including "Low Water Slack; Dying Scarlet" (winner of the 1998 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for poetry); "Darkness and Silence" (winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry); "The Witness Ghost"; and "The Memory Orchard" (both nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award). He is also the author of three novels, "Downriver Drift" (Harbour), "The Paperboy's Winter" (Penguin) and "The Bone Sharps" (Gaspereau Press). His first book of non-fiction, "The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture" (Nightwood