George Fetherling

George Fetherling (born 1949, full name Douglas George Fetherling) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and cultural commentator. One of the most prolific figures in Canadian letters, he has written or edited more than fifty books, including a dozen volumes of poetry, four book-length fictions, and a two-volume memoir. He lives in Toronto and Vancouver.

Fetherling was born in West Virginia, in the United States, on January 1, 1949. He moved to Canada at age eighteen.^[1] He started in the Canadian literary industry in 1966 in Toronto, where he was the first employee of publisher House of Anansi.^[2] Born Douglas, Fetherling began publishing under his father's name, George, in 1999.^[1] He began writing for the book reviews section of the Vancouver Sun in 2000.^[2] He is the author of British Columbia literary figure George Woodcock's only biography.^[2]

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

• 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
• "The Sylvia Hotel Poems" - 2010
• "Plans Deranged by Time" - 2012

Fiction

• The File on Arthur Moss – 1994
• Jericho – 2005
• Tales of Two Cities – 2006
• "Walt Whitman's Secret" - 2010

Non-fiction

• The Five Lives of Ben Hecht – 1977
• Gold Diggers of 1929 – 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 – 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 – 1987
• Travels By Night: A Memoir – 1994
• Way Down Deep in the Belly of the Beast: A Memoir – 1996
• "The Writing Life: Journals 1975 - 2005" - 2013

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
• "Indochina Now and Then" - 2012

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

References

1. "Douglas Fetherling". Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada.
2. "FETHERLING, George". ABCBookWorld. BC Book World.

External links

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