Frank Davey

Frankland Wilmot Davey (born April 19, 1940) is a Canadian poet and scholar.

Life
Frank Davey was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but raised in nearby Abbotsford. He was the son Wilmot Elmer Davey and Doris Brown. Much of his childhood in Abbotsford is pseudonymously recounted in his 2005 poetry volume Back to the War. He enrolled at the University of British Columbia in 1957 where he met the influential poetry theorist Warren Tallman and student writers George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, Carol Bolt, and Fred Wah, and in 1960 the charismatic San Francisco poet Robert Duncan. With Wah and Bowering, and the advice of Tallman and Duncan, he founded the poetry newsletter Tish in 1961.

In the spring of 1962 he won the university's Macmillan Prize for poetry, and published the poetry collection D-Day and After, the first of the TISH group's numerous publications. He married Helen Simmons, also of Abbotsford, in December of 1962, and completed an MA the following spring. That fall he began teaching at Canadian Services College Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, where in 1965 he founded Open Letter, a journal of writing and theory which he has continued to edit and publish. He began doctoral studies at the University of Southern California in the summer of 1965, which in 1966-67 he took advantage of a one-year leave from Royal Roads and a Canada Council fellowship to complete. Shortly after he and his wife separated in 1969, he left Victoria to become Writer-in-Residence at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, where he married Linda McCartney. He joined the English Department of York University in Toronto in 1970, and became department chair in 1985. He was appointed in 1990 to the Carl F. Klinck Chair of Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario in London. From 1975-1992 he was one of the most active editors of the Coach House Press. He currently lives in Strathroy, Ontario.

Poetry

 * 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
 * Lack 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-Fiction

 * 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 0-67086-153-7
 * How Linda Died - 2002 ISBN 1-55022-497-2
 * Mr & Mrs G.G - 2003 ISBN 1-55022-565-0
 * When TISH Happens - 2011 ISBN 978-1-55022-958-5

Edited

 * Tish Nos. 1-19 - 1975 ISBN 0-88922-077-8
 * The SwiftCurrent Anthology - 1986 (edited with Fred Wah) ISBN 0-88910-317-8