TISH
TISH was a Canadian underground lyrical literature magazine in the form of a newsletter , founded by literary students at the University of British Columbia in 1961 and operated by a number of poets from the greater Vancouver area until 1969. These newsletter poems were based on the work of those writers associated with North Carolina's Black Mountain College experiment.
Contributing authors included George Bowering , Fred Wah , Frank Davey , Daphne Marlatt , David Cull , Carol Bolt , Dan McLeod , Robert Hogg , Jamie Reid, and Lionel Kearns . Influenced by the poetry theorist Warren Tallman , the group of TISH poets also drew inspiration from Robert Creeley , Robert Duncan , Charles Olson and Jack Spicer .
TISH was to be the springboard for a number of other publications, such as the alternative journal The Georgia Straight , edited by Dan McLeod, the poetry newsletter SUM (1963-1965), edited by Frank Wah, the magazine of the long poem Imago (1964-1974) , edited by Bowering, the Journal of Theory of Writing Open Letter (1965 to date), edited by Davey, the Prose Journal Periodics (1977-1981), edited by Marlatt and Paul de Barros, and the online journal Swift Current (1984 –1990), published by Davey and Wah, which they described as the world's first e-magazine.
According to George Fetherling in The Georgia Straight , TISH had a special meaning: “ The journal started by George Bowering, Frank Davey, David Dawson, Jamie Reid and Fred Wah is probably the most influential literary magazine ever produced in Canada, of greater significance than even Preview or First Statement, the two that brought poetic modernism to the country in the 1940s. ”
literature
- Frank Davey: When TISH Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's "Most Influential Literary Magazine". ECW Press 2011, ISBN 978-1-55022-958-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Author portrait of Frank Davey on ABC Bookworld. Accessed January 11, 2012.
- ↑ Quoted from: Portrait of the author Warren Tallman. on: www.abcbooworld.com. Accessed January 11, 2012.