Jamie Reid (poet)
Jamie Reid (born April 10, 1941 in Timmins , Ontario , † June 25, 2015 in North Vancouver , British Columbia ) was a Canadian poet, writer and art activist.
Life
Jamie Reid was born in Timmins, Ontario and came to the west coast of Canada in adulthood. According to some sources, Reid is not only an author, but also a co-founder alongside George Bowering , Frank Davey and Fred Wah, one of the first men at the influential underground magazine TISH in Vancouver in 1961.
Jamie Reid published his first collection of poems, The Man Whose Path Was on Fire , in 1969. A little later he joined the Communist Party of Canada as a staunch Marxist-Leninist and for a long time postponed the writing of poetry to political activism because he had his own According to words, I personally have not found a way to translate the language of politics into his poems.
It wasn't until the late 1980s that Reid returned to poetry and cultural criticism, with a special interest in jazz expressing itself in many of his works, such as his homage to Lester Young , Prez: Homage to Lester Young (1994, 2010) or the biography about Diana Krall , Diana Krall: The Language of Love (2002). After all, there is a 25-year gap between his first volume of poetry and his later books.
Married to the painter Carol Reid since the 1960s, his home in the north of Vancouver was still a hub for literary activism and other artistic activities, for smaller journalistic experiments such as the local avant-garde magazine with international standards, DaDaBaBy , or commemorative publications in honor of literary figures . In 2004 he published a biography about the musician and actor Chris Isaak .
Works
- Poems
- The Man Whose Path Was on Fire . 1969
- Prez: Homage to Lester Young . (1994, 2010)
- Mad Boys . 1997
- I. Another. The Space Between: Selected Poems . 2004
- Genesis . 2005.
- St. Ink: selected poems . 2008
- homages . 2009
- biography
- Diana Krall: The Language of Love . 2002
- Chris Isaak: wicked games . Kingston, Ontario 2004.
Web links
- Jamie Reid, ABCBookworld
- Can You Hear Me Now? A Tribute to Jamie Reid , by Carol Reid (Blurb, 2011)
- Jamie Reid Closing the Night , reading, Vancouver BC, 2010
- Reid reading from his chapbook homages in 2009
- A Night of Newlove , Jamie Reid on John Newlove , The Pacific Rim Review of Books, 2008
- TPRRB Issue 8 [PDF]
- Jamie and Himself: An Interview With Canada's Jamie Reid , Word Arc, 2008
- The East Village Poetry Web, Poetries of Canada, Jamie Reid
- Remembering Allen , Homage to Allen Ginsberg , 1997
- Festivals and Happenings: Vancouver's Human Be In , 7 O'Clock Show, CBC Archives, 1967
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reid, Jamie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reid, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian poet, writer, and art activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Timmins , Ontario , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 2015 |
| Place of death | North Vancouver , British Columbia |