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Frank Davey

Born in Vancouver, Frank Davey was Carl F. Klinck Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario. Upon his retirement in 2005, the conference “Poetics and Public Culture in Canada” was held in his honour. Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. With fellow TISH poet Fred Wah, Davey founded the world’s first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent in 1984.

A prolific and highly-esteemed author of numerous books and scholarly articles on Canadian literary criticism and poetry, Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it, and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing society—racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economic—that drive this play.

May 2010 : Video Clips From Talon’s 2010 Cross-Canada Poetry Tour: Vancouver

May 2010 : Talon Spring Launch at the Edmonton Poetry Festival

May 2010 : Talonbooks Spring Poetry Launch in Calgary

May 2010 : Talon Spring Poetry Night in Vancouver

QUOTES OF NOTE

Finally, what’s left is an irresistible, irrepressible read that’s bound to raise eyebrows.
— Monday Magazine

QUOTES OF NOTE

Risqué metaphors…scandalously unpoetic…a powerful alternative to the orthodoxy of poetic beauty.
— Smaro Kamboureli