Bowering, George

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1935- ) Canadian poet, teacher and author, appointed in 2002 as the first Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada. Of his 80 or so volumes, of sf interest is the Young Adult series comprising Parents from Space (1994) and Diamondback Dog (1999), which comically involves adolescent siblings with Aliens who claim to be their (as it were, additional) parents. [JC]