Jamie Reid (Canadian poet)
Jamie Reid (born April 10, 1941) is a Canadian poet, writer, and arts organizer/activist. He was born in Timmins, Ontario and came of age on the west coast of Canada.
Reid co-founded the influential poetry journal TISH in Vancouver in 1961 with George Bowering, Frank Davey and Fred Wah.[1] He published his first collection of poems, The Man Whose Path Was on Fire, in 1969. A short time later he joined the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)[2] and for a time, stopped writing poetry in favour of political work, "because [he] didn’t have a way of working the language of politics into the language of poetry."
Reid returned to poetry and cultural criticism in the late 1980s, with a special interest in jazz expressed in many of his works. There is a 25-year gap between his first book of poetry and his later books.[3] Married to painter Carol Reid since the 1960s, his home in North Vancouver continues to be a hub of literary activism and activity, from small press experiments like the local/international avant garde magazine DaDaBaBy to events and memoir writings in honour of a variety of literary figures who are, notably, human beings.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Poetry
- 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)
- homages (2009)
[edit] Biography
- Diana Krall: The Language of Love (2002)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Can You Hear Me Now? A Tribute to Jamie Reid, edited 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
