# TISH

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'''''TISH''''' was a Canadian poetry newsletter founded by student-poets at the [University of British Columbia](/source/University_of_British_Columbia) in 1961. The publication was edited by a number of [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver) poets until 1969. The newsletter's poetics were built on those of writers associated with North Carolina's [Black Mountain College](/source/Black_Mountain_College) experiment.

Contributing writers included [George Bowering](/source/George_Bowering), [Fred Wah](/source/Fred_Wah), [Frank Davey](/source/Frank_Davey), [Daphne Marlatt](/source/Daphne_Marlatt), David Cull, [Carol Bolt](/source/Carol_Bolt), [Dan McLeod](/source/Dan_McLeod), [Robert Hogg](/source/Robert_Hogg_(poet)), [Jamie Reid](/source/Jamie_Reid_(Canadian_poet)), and [Lionel Kearns](/source/Lionel_Kearns). Influenced by the poetry theorist [Warren Tallman](/source/Warren_Tallman), the Tish Group also drew inspiration from [Robert Creeley](/source/Robert_Creeley), [Robert Duncan](/source/Robert_Duncan_(poet)), [Charles Olson](/source/Charles_Olson) and [Jack Spicer](/source/Jack_Spicer).

''TISH'' launched a number of other publications including the alternative newspaper ''[The Georgia Straight](/source/The_Georgia_Straight)'', edited by McLeod; the poetry newsletter ''SUM'' (1963–65), edited by Wah; the magazine of the long poem ''[Imago](/source/Imago_(magazine))'' (1964–74), edited by Bowering; the journal of writing and theory ''[Open Letter](/source/Open_Letter_(journal))'' (1965–2013), edited by Davey; the prose journal ''Periodics'' (1977–81), edited by Marlatt and Paul de Barros; ''Motion: A Prose Newsletter'', edited by David Cull and Robert Hogg (1962), the ''TISHBooks'' imprint, and the online journal ''[Swift Current](/source/Swift_Current_(magazine))'' (1984–1990), edited by Davey and Wah, who described it as the world's first e-magazine.

In 2001, George Fetherling wrote in ''The Georgia Straight'' that "the journal [''TISH''] started by [George Bowering](/source/George_Bowering), [Frank Davey](/source/Frank_Davey), [David Dawson](/source/David_Dawson_(poet)), [Jamie Reid](/source/Jamie_Reid_(Canadian_poet)) and [Fred Wah](/source/Fred_Wah) is probably the most influential literary magazine ever produced in Canada, of greater significance than even ''Preview'' or ''[First Statement](/source/First_Statement)'', the two that brought poetic modernism to the country in the 1940s."<ref>Quoted in "http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=59 Author Bank: Warren Tallman"</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060617021948/http://www.youngpoets.ca/history/history14.php A Digital History of Canadian Poetry]
* [http://www.ccca.ca/history/ozz/english/authors/bowering_george.html Virtual Library of Canadian Small Press]
* [http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=59 Author Bank: Warren Tallman] at [BC Bookworld](/source/BC_Bookworld)
* [http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=785 Author Bank: Frank Davey] at [BC Bookworld](/source/BC_Bookworld)
* [http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=1874 Author Bank: Fred Wah] at [BC Bookworld](/source/BC_Bookworld)
* [http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=299 Author Bank: George Bowering] at [BC Bookworld](/source/BC_Bookworld)
* [http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=834 Author Bank: Daphne Marlatt] at [BC Bookworld](/source/BC_Bookworld)

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