Fiction

• Mirror on the Floor - 1967
• A Short Sad Book - 1977
• Burning Water - 1980 (winner of the 1980 Governor General's Award for Fiction), 2007
• Caprice - 1988, 2010
• Harry's Fragments - 1990
• Shoot! - 1994, 2008
• Parents from Space - 1994
• Piccolo Mondo - 1998 (with Angela Bowering, Michael Matthews & David Bromige)
• Diamondback Dog - 1998
• "Pinboy" Toronto, Cormorant, 2010.

Short Fiction

• Autobiology - 1972
• Fiddler's Night - 1973
• Flycatcher and Other Stories - 1974
• Concentric Circles - 1977
• Protective Footwear - 1978
• A Place to Die - 1983
• The Rain Barrel - 1994
• Standing on Richards - 2004
• "The Box" - 2009

Booklength Poems

• "Baseball" Toronto, Coach House Press, 1967, 2003.
• "Sitting in Mexico" Calgary, Beaver Kosmos, 1970.
• "George,Vancouver" Kitchener, Weed/Flower, 1970.
• "Geneve" Toronto, Coach House, 1971.
• "Autobiology" Vancouver, New Star, 1972. Vancouver, Pooka, 2006.
• "Curious" Toronto, Coach House, 1973.
• "At War With the U.S." Vancouver, Talon, 1974.
• "Allophanes" Toronto, Coach House, 1976.
• "Ear Reach" Vancouver, Alcuin, 1982,
• "Kerrisdale Elegies" Toronto, Coach House, 1984. Vancouver, Pooka Press, 2008.
• Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2008.
• "Elegie di Kerrisdale" Rome, Edizioni Empiria. Transl. Annalisa Goldoni. 1996.
• "His Life: a poem" Toronto, ECW Press, 2000.

Collections of Poems (including gathered long poems

• "Sticks & Stones" Vancouver, Tishbooks, 1963.
• "Points on the Grid" Toronto, Contact Press, 1964.
• "The Man in Yellow Boots/ El hombre de las botas amarillas" Mexico,
• Ediciones El Corno, 1965.
• "The Silver Wire" Kingston, Quarry Press, 1966.
• "Rocky Mountain Foot" Toronto, M&S, 1969.
• "The Gangs of Kosmos" Toronto, House of Anansi, 1969.
• "Touch: selected poems 1960-1969" Toronto, M&S, 1971.
• "In the Flesh" Toronto, M&S, 1974.
• "The Catch" Toronto, M&S, 1976.
• "Poem & Other Baseballs" Windsor, Black Moss, 1976.
• "The Concrete Island" Montreal, Vehicule Press, 1977.
• "Another Mouth" Toronto, M&S, 1979.
• "Particular Accidents: selected poems" Vancouver, Talon, 1981.
• "West Window: selected poetry" Toronto, General, 1982.
• "Smoking Mirror" Edmonton, Longspoon, 1982.
• "Seventy-One Poems for People" Red Deer, RDC Press, 1985.
• "Delayed Mercy & other poems" Toronto, Coach House, 1986.
• "Sticks & Stones" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1989.
• "Urban Snow" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1992.
• "George Bowering Selected: Poems 1961-1992" Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1993.
• "Blonds on Bikes" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1997.
• "Poémes et autres baseballs" Montreal. Tryptique, 1999 (collaboration).
• "Changing on the Fly" Vancouver, Polestar, 2004.
• "Vermeer’s Light: Poems 1996-2006" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2006, 2007.
• Kerrisdale Elegies 2nd Edition; Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2008.
• My Darling Nellie Gray Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2010.

Criticism

• "Al Purdy" Toronto, Copp Clark, 1970.
• "Robert Duncan: an Interview" Toronto, Coach House/Beaver Kosmos, 1971.
• "Three Vancouver Writers" Toronto, Open Letter/Coach House, 1979.
• "A Way With Words" Ottawa, Oberon, 1982.
• "The Mask in Place" Winnipeg, Turnstone Press, 1983.
• "Craft Slices" Ottawa, Oberon, 1985.
• "Errata" Red Deer, RDC Press, 1988.
• "Imaginary Hand" Edmonton, NeWest Press, 1988.
• "Left Hook" Vancouver, Raincoast Books, 2005.

Chapbooks

• "How I Hear Howl" Montreal, Beaver Kosmos, 1967.
• "Two Police Poems" Vancouver, Talon, 1969.
• "The Sensible" Toronto, Massasauga, 1972.
• "Layers 1-13" Kitchener, Weed/Flower, 1973.
• "In Answer" Vancouver, William Hoffer, 1977.
• "Uncle Louis" Toronto, Coach House, 1980.
• "Spencer & Groulx" Vancouver, William Hoffer, 1985.
• "Quarters" Prince George, Gorse Press, 1991. (Winner, bp Nichol chapbook award 1991)
• "Do Sink" Vancouver, Pomflit, 1992. (Winner, bp Nichol chapbook award, 1992).
• "Sweetly" Vancouver, Wuz, 1992.
• "Blondes on Bikes" Ottawa, Above Ground, 1997.
• "A, You're Adorable" Ottawa, Above Ground, 1998, 2004.
• "6 Little Poems in Alphabetical Order" Calgary, House Press, 2000.
• "Some Writers" Calgary, House Press, 2001.
• "Joining the Lost Generation" Calgary, House Press, 2002.
• "Lost in the Library" Ellsworth, ME, Backwoods Broadsides, 2004.
• "Rewriting my Grandfather" Vancouver, Nomados, 2005.
• "Crows in the Wind" Toronto, BookThug, 2006.
• "A Knot of Light" Calgary, No Press. 2006.
• "Montenegro 1966" Calgary, No Press, 2007.
• "U.S. Sonnets" Vancouver, Pooka, 2007.
• "Eggs in There" Edmonton, Rubicon, 2007.
• "Some Answers" Mt. Pleasant, ON, LaurelReed Books, 2007.
• "Horizontal Surfaces" Edmonton, Olive Collective, 2007.
• "Tocking Heads" Edmonton, above/ground, 2007.
• "There Then" Prince George, Gorse Press, 2008.
• "Animals, Beasts, Critters" Vancouver, JB Objects, 2008.
• "Valley" Calgary, No Press, 2008
• "Fulgencio" Vancouver, Nomados, 2008.
• "According to Brueghel" North Vancouver, Capilano, 2008.
• "Shall I Compare" Penticton, Beaver Kosmos, 2008.
• "A Little Black Strap" St. Paul, Unarmed, 2009.

Memoirs

• "The Moustache: remembering Greg Curnoe" Toronto, Coach House, 1993.
• "A Magpie Life" Toronto, Key Porter, 2001.
• "Cars" Toronto, Coach House Books, 2002.
• "Baseball Love" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2006.

History

• "Bowering's B.C." Toronto, Viking, 1996. Penguin, 1997.
• "Egotists and Autocrats" Toronto, Viking, 1999. Toronto, Penguin, 2000.
• "Stone Country" Toronto, Viking, 2003. Penguin, 2004.

Plays

• "The Home for Heroes" Vancouver, Prism, 1962.
• "What Does Eddie Williams Want?" Montreal, CBC-TV, 1966.
• "George Vancouver" Vancouver, CBC radio network, 1972.
• "Sitting in Mexico" Vancouver, CBC radio network, 1973.
• "Music in the Park" Vancouver, CBC radio network, 1986.
• "The Great Grandchildren of Bill Bissett's Mice" Vancouver, CBC radio network,1989.

Editions

• "The 1962 Poems of R.S. Lane" Toronto, Ganglia Press, 1965.
• "Vibrations: poems of youth" Toronto, Gage, 1970.
• "The Story so Far" Toronto, Coach House, 1972.
• "The City in her Eyes" by David Cull, Vancouver, Vancouver Community Press, 1972.
• "Imago Twenty" Vancouver, Talon, 1974.
• "Cityflowers" by Artie Gold, Montreal, Delta Canada, 1974.
• "Letters from Geeksville: letters from Red Lane 1960-64" Prince George, Caledonia Writing Series, 1976.
• "Great Canadian Sports Stories" Ottawa, Oberon, 1979.
• "Fiction of Contemporary Canada" Toronto, Coach House, 1980.
• "Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek: selected poems of Fred Wah" Vancouver, Talon,1981.
• "My Body was Eaten by Dogs: selected poems of David McFadden" Toronto, M&S, New York, CrossCountry, 1981.
• "1945-1980," in Introduction to Poetry: British, American, Canadian, David and Lecker, Toronto, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981.
• "The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology" Toronto, Coach House, 1983.
• "Sheila Watson and The Double Hook: the artist and her critics" Ottawa, Golden Dog Press, 1984.
• "Taking the Field:the best of baseball fiction" Red Deer, RDC Press, 1990.
• "Likely Stories: a postmodern sampler" Toronto, Coach House Press, 1992. WithLinda Hutcheon.
• "An H in the Heart: Selected works of bpNichol" Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1994. With Michael Ondaatje.
• "And Other Stories" Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2001.

*"The 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology" Toronto, House of Anansi, 2008.

• "The Heart Does Break" Toronto, Random House, 2009. With Jean Baird.

Editor

• "Tish" Vancouver, 1961-63.
• "Imago" Calgary, London, Montreal, Vancouver, 1964-1974.
• "Beaver Kosmos Folios" Calgary, London, Montreal, Vancouver, 1966-75.

About

• "A Record of Writing: an annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of GeorgeBowering" by Roy Miki, Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1989, 401 pp.
• "Essays on Canadian Writing, George Bowering issue" ed. Ken Norris, 1989, 127 pp.
• "George Bowering: Bright Circles of Colour" by Eva-Marie Kroller,Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1992, 128 pp.
• "George Bowering and His Works" by John Harris, Toronto, ECW Press, 1992, 62 pp.
• "71 (+) for GB" ed. Jean Baird, David McFadden and George Stanley, Vancouver/Toronto, (printed at) Coach House Books, 2005.