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.

Selected bibliography

Poetry

• United States of Heaven — 1968
• My Experience in the War — 1970
• Our Man in Utopia — 1971
• Café Terminus — 1973
• Eleven Early Poems — 1973
• Achilles' Navel — 1974
• Subroutines — 1981
• Variorum: New Poems and Old, 1965-1985 — 1985
• Moving Towards the Vertical Horizon — 1986
• Rites of Alienation — 1988
• The Dreams of Ancient Peoples — 1990
• Selected Poems — 1994
• Madagascar — 2000
• Singer, An Elegy — 2004

Fiction

• The File on Arthur Moss — 1994
• Jericho — 2005
• Tales of Two Cities — 2006

Non-fiction

• The Five Lives of Ben Hecht — 1977
• Gold Diggers of 1929: Canada and the Great Stock Market Crash — 1979
• The Blue Notebook: Reports on Canadian Culture — 1985
• The Crowded Darkness — 1988
• The Gold Crusades: A Social History of the Gold Rushes, 1849-1929 — 1988
• The Rise of the Canadian Newspaper — 1990
• A LIttle Bit of Thunder: The Strange Inner LIfe of the Kingston Whig-Standard — 1993
• The Book of Assassins — 2001
• River of Gold: The Fraser and Cariboo Gold Rushes — 2008

Biography

• The Gentle Anarchist: A Life of George Woodcock — 1998

Memoir

• Notes from a Journal 1978-1980 — 1987
• Travels By Night: A Memoir of the Sixties — 1994
• Way Down Deep in the Belly of the Beast: A Memoir of the Seventies — 1996

Travel writing

• Year of the Horse: A Journey Through Russia and China — 1991
• The Other China: Journeys Around Taiwan — 1995
• Running Away to Sea: Round the World on a Tramp Freighter — 1998
• Three Pagodas Pass: A Roundabout Journey to Burma — 2002
• One Russia, Two Chinas — 2004

Anthologies edited

• A George Woodcock Reader — 1980
• Carl Sandburg at the Movies: A Poet in the Silent Era 1920-1927 — 1985 (with Dale Fetherling)
• Documents in Canadian Art — 1987
• Documents in Canadian Film — 1988
• The Broadview Book of Canadian Anecdotes — 1988
• Best Canadian Essays 1989 — 1989
• Best Canadian Essays 1990 — 1990
• The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs — 2001

External links

• George Fetherling's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• George Fetherling at Geist.com

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