Frank Davey
Frank Davey as Frankland Wilmot Davey (born April 19, 1940 in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada ) is a Canadian poet , writer and former university professor.
Life
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Wilmot Elmer Davey and Doris Brown, he grew up in the village of Abbotsford in the Fraser Valley . In 1957 he enrolled at the University of British Columbia , where in 1961, shortly after completing his Bachelor of Arts, he became one of the co-founding editors of the influential poetry newsletter TISH alongside Fred Wah and George Bowering . In the spring of 1952 he won the Macmillan Prize for poetry at his university and published the poetry collection D-Day and After , the first in a group of TISH's numerous publications. He married Helen Simmons, also from Abbotsford, in December 1962 and graduated with an MA the following spring. In the fall of 1963 he began teaching at the Canadian Services College Royal Roads Military College in Victoria , where in 1965 he founded Open Letter , a journal on the theory of writing. In the summer of 1965 he began his doctoral thesis at the University of Southern California , where he was able to take a Canada Council fellowship in 1966/67 to complete his work.
Shortly after he and his wife separated in 1969, he left Victoria to work as Writer-in-Residence at Sir George Williams University in Montreal . Here he married the native Linda McCartney. In 1970 Davey became a member of the English Chair at York University in Toronto and 15 years later chairman of the institute. In 1990 he took over the Carl F. Klinck Chair of Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario in London . In 2014 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada . From 1975 to 1992 he was one of the most active writers on Coach House Press. He currently lives in Strathroy , Ontario .
Work (selection)
- Poems
- D-day and After - 1962
- City of the Gulls and Sea - 1964
- The Scarred Hull - 1965,
- Bridge Force - 1965
- Weeds - 1970
- Four Myths for Sam Perry - 1970
- Griffon - 1972
- King of Swords - 1972
- L'An Trentiesme: Selected Poems, 1961-70 - 1972
- Arcana - 1973
- The Clallam, or, Old Glory in Juan de Fuca - 1973
- Selected Poems: The Arches - 1980 (edited by bpNichol ) ISBN 0-88922-174-X
- Capitalistic Affection! - 1982 ISBN 0-88910-244-9
- Edward and Patricia - 1984 ISBN 0-88910-274-0
- The Louis Riel Organ and Piano Company - 1985 ISBN 0-88801-096-6
- The Abbotsford Guide to India - 1986 ISBN 0-88878-262-4
- Popular Narratives - 1994 ISBN 0-88922-285-1
- Cultural Mischief - 1996 ISBN 0-88922-364-5
- Back to the War - 2005 ISBN 0-88922-514-1
- Paint On! - 2009 ISBN 978-0-9813548-0-4
- How We Won the War in Iraq - 2009 ISBN 978-0-9813548-1-1
- Bardy Google - 2010 ISBN 978-0-88922-636-4
- Afghanistan War: True, False - or Not - 2010 ISBN 978-0-9813548-2-8
- Non-fictional works
- Five Readings of Olson's Maximus - 1970
- Earle Birney - 1971
- From There to Here: A Guide to English-Canadian Literature Since 1960 - 1974 ISBN 0-88878-036-2
- Louis Dudek and Raymond Souster - 1980 ISBN 0-88894-264-8
- Surviving the Paraphrase - 1983 ISBN 0-88801-075-3
- Margaret Atwood : A Feminist Poetics - 1984 ISBN 0-88922-217-7
- Reading Canadian Reading - 1985 ISBN 0-88801-130-X
- Post-National Arguments: The Politics of the Anglophone-Canadian Novel since 1967 - 1993 ISBN 0-8020-2785-7
- Reading 'Kim' Right - 1993 ISBN 0-88922-342-4
- Canadian Literary Power - 1994 ISBN 0-920897-57-6
- Karla's Web: A Cultural Investigation of the Mahaffy-French Murders - 1994 ISBN 0-670-86153-7
- How Linda Died - 2002 ISBN 1-55022-497-2
- Mr & Mrs GG - 2003 ISBN 1-55022-565-0
- When TISH Happens - 2011 ISBN 978-1-55022-958-5
- Anthologies
- Tish Nos. 1-19 - 1975 ISBN 0-88922-077-8
- The SwiftCurrent Anthology - 1986 (edited with Fred Wah ) ISBN 0-88910-317-8
Individual evidence
- ^ Davey, Writing a Life, Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series , Vol. 27, Detroit: Gale, pp. 83-114.
- ↑ RSC Class of 2014. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 7, 2015 ; accessed on September 13, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://publish.uwo.ca/~fdavey/c/autonew2.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davey, Frank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Davey, Frankland Wilmot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian poet, writer and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada |