University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives

Finding Aid - Tish group collection (SC313)

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Table of contents

Summary information ...... 3 Administrative history / Biographical sketch ...... 3 Scope and content ...... 3 Notes ...... 3 Access points ...... 4 Collection holdings ...... 4 SC313-1980-025, Poetry and Prose Reproductions (1961-1963) ...... 4

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Summary information

Repository: University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives Title: Tish group collection ID: SC313 Date: ca. 1961-1963 (date of creation) Physical description: 2 cm of textual records

Administrative history / Biographical sketch

Note The Tish group were largely based poets who were associated with the little magazine Tish (1961-1969). Original members of the group -- Frank Davey, , David Dawson, and -- met at the University of British Columbia. They referred to William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Robert Creely and as influences.

Scope and content

The collection consists mostly of blue "ditto" typescript reproductions of poems and prose by the groups contributors. They appear to be limited copies for consideration amongst the group participants. Also included is a corrected typescript copy of "Stacked-Verse"(Aug., 1962, 40 pp.) by Lionel Kearns. Among the contributors represented are George Bowering, Fred Wah, Judy Copithorne, Rona Haddon (Murray), , Clark Coolidge, John E. Hill, James Reid, Dan McLeod, Linda Wagner, etc.

Notes

Title notes

Other notes • Publication status: Published • Description identifier: tish-group-collection

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Access points

• Black Mountain school (Group of poets) • Bowering, George, 1935- (subject) • Bromige, David (subject) • Coolidge, Clark, 1939- (subject) • Copithorne, Judith (subject) • McLeod, Dan, 1943- (subject) • Murray, Rona, 1924-2003 (subject) • Reid, Jamie, 1941- (subject) • Wah, Fred, 1939- (subject) • poetry (documentary form) • prose poems (documentary form) • reproductions (derivative objects) (documentary form) • typescripts (documentary form) • (English)--20th century--History and criticism (subject) • Canadian poetry--20th century--History and criticism (subject) • Canadian poetry--American influences (subject) • Kearns, Lionel, 1937-. Stacked-verse (subject)

Collection holdings

Series: SC313-1980-025 - Poetry and Prose Reproductions Title: Poetry and Prose Reproductions ID: SC313-1980-025 Date: 1961-1963 (date of creation) Scope and content: The file consists mostly of blue "ditto" typescript reproductions of poems and prose by the groups contributors. They appear to be limited copies for consideration amongst the group participants. Also included is a corrected typescript copy of "Stacked-Verse"(Aug., 1962, 40 pp.) by Lionel Kearns. Among the contributors represented are George Bowering, Fred Wah, Judy Copithorne, Rona Haddon (Murray), David Bromige, Clark Coolidge, John E. Hill, James Reid, Dan McLeod, Linda Wagner, etc.

Physical description: 1 file.

Publication status:

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Published

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