George Fetherling

George Fetherling

Douglas George Fetherling (born 1 Jan 1949) is a Canadian poet, novelist, journalist and essayist. One of the most prolific figures in Canadian letters, he has written and edited more than fifty books, including more than a dozen volumes of poetry, two novels, and a multi-volume memoir. He wrote as either Doug or Douglas Fetherling until 1999 when he began using his middle name.

Fetherling is the editor and publisher of Subway Books, an independent publishing house based in Vancouver, British Columbia. His column, "Books this Week", appears in Seven Oaks magazine, an online journal and Geist magazine.

A study of Fetherling's books George Fetherling and His Work, edited by Linda Rogers, features essays by W. H. New, George Elliott Clarke, Brian Busby and others.

Contents

Selected bibliography

Poetry

  • United States of Heaven1968
  • My Experience in the War1970
  • Our Man in Utopia1971
  • Café Terminus1973
  • Eleven Early Poems1973
  • Achilles' Navel1974
  • Subroutines1981
  • Variorum: New Poems and Old, 1965-19851985
  • Moving Towards the Vertical Horizon1986
  • Rites of Alienation1988
  • The Dreams of Ancient Peoples1990
  • Selected Poems1994
  • Madagascar2000
  • Singer, An Elegy2004

Fiction

  • The File on Arthur Moss1994
  • Jericho2005
  • Tales of Two Cities2006

Non-fiction

  • The Five Lives of Ben Hecht1977
  • Gold Diggers of 1929: Canada and the Great Stock Market Crash1979
  • The Blue Notebook: Reports on Canadian Culture1985
  • The Crowded Darkness1988
  • The Gold Crusades: A Social History of the Gold Rushes, 1849-19291988
  • The Rise of the Canadian Newspaper1990
  • A LIttle Bit of Thunder: The Strange Inner LIfe of the Kingston Whig-Standard1993
  • The Book of Assassins2001
  • River of Gold: The Fraser and Cariboo Gold Rushes2008

Biography

  • The Gentle Anarchist: A Life of George Woodcock1998

Memoir

  • Notes from a Journal 1978-19801987
  • Travels By Night: A Memoir of the Sixties1994
  • Way Down Deep in the Belly of the Beast: A Memoir of the Seventies1996

Travel writing

  • Year of the Horse: A Journey Through Russia and China1991
  • The Other China: Journeys Around Taiwan1995
  • Running Away to Sea: Round the World on a Tramp Freighter1998
  • Three Pagodas Pass: A Roundabout Journey to Burma2002
  • One Russia, Two Chinas2004

Anthologies edited

  • A George Woodcock Reader1980
  • Carl Sandburg at the Movies: A Poet in the Silent Era 1920-19271985 (with Dale Fetherling)
  • Documents in Canadian Art1987
  • Documents in Canadian Film1988
  • The Broadview Book of Canadian Anecdotes1988
  • Best Canadian Essays 19891989
  • Best Canadian Essays 19901990
  • The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs2001

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