[2] Bowman's first published poem, "North Room", appeared in Outlook in May 1913 and she had quite an extensive magazine publication.
Her work appeared in Poetry, Outlook, Independent, Dalhousie Review, Queen's Quarterly, and Canadian Magazine.
They claim "Louise Morey Bowman shows an airy fancy which is almost so ethereal as to be altogether abstract and unearthly.
Modelled upon Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird," it deals with twelve aspects of Canadian life both past and present and urban and rural.
It is the second of a series of poems called "Portraits of Five Sinners": These two lines exemplify the power of the image to evoke the deepest of insights with the least amount of verbiage.
Imagism could have given Bowman a method to set herself free from the past, but she was unable to break away from the grip of the Romanticism which dominated the Canadian literary scene.
But she is an interesting representative figure nonetheless whose career can serve to symbolize the slow and painful struggle which Canadian poetry underwent in its transition from Victorian to modern styles.