FRANK DAVEY Frank Davey has been a poet, editor, small magazine publisher, literary critic, and cultural critic in Canada since 1961. He is editor and co-founder of the notorious poetry newsletter Tish (1961-63) and since 1965 editor of Open Letter, the Canadian journal of writing and theory. With Fred Wah in 1984, he founded SwiftCurrent, the world's first on-line literary magazine, operating it until 1990. For colourful new work (2009-2011)from his series Postcards to Canada and Postcards from the Raj click the titles. His latest poetry book is Bardy Google, released in 2010 by Talonbooks. His new memoir, When Tish Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's 'Most Influential Literary Magazine,' has recently been released by ECW Press. For a review check Douglas Barbour's sexily titled "One Alternative." Four of the more recent of Davey's poetry books are also in print at Talonbooks, including The Arches: Selected Poems (1980), edited by bpNichol, Popular Narratives (1991), Cultural Mischief (1996), and Back to the War (2005). You can follow the faithful link to Talonbooks.
New writing by Frank Davey appears in The Capilano Review Manifestos Now! issue, 3/13 (Winter 2011) and in Rampike 19:2 (Fall 2010).
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