Ron, OBOC committee member and Libary Bound staffer, has been reading When Tish Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada’s Most Influential Literary Magazine by Frank Davey.
Written as a memoir by one of its founders and editors, Frank Davey chronicles his early life in Abbotsford, B.C., and the history of the UBC poetry magazine, Tish.
While an interest in Canadian literary history brought me to this book, Davey’s descriptions of his childhood and campus years at UBC, then his early career in Victoria, Montreal, and Toronto were a huge part of what makes the book an interesting read.
Amazing how arguments over poetic theory, publishing deals, and slights real or imagined can be so fiercely remembered 40+ years later, but these are poets, after all. A must read for those interested in Canadian letters of the last 50 years.
Watch a reading of the book by the author (below).
