Jamie Reid (Canadian poet)

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Jamie Reid (born April 10, 1941) is a Canadian poet. He was born in Timmins, Ontario.

Reid co-founded the influential poetry journal TISH in Vancouver in 1961 with George Bowering, Frank Davey and Fred Wah. He published his first collection of poems, The Man Whose Path Was on Fire, in 1969. A short time later he dedicated himself to communist organizing in Ontario, and ceased publishing. Reid returned to print in 1994 with Prez: Homage to Lester Young, a verse-biography of the famed jazz saxophonist. He currently publishes DaDaBaBy, a journal and chapbook press.

[edit] Bibliography

Poetry

• The Man Whose Path Was on Fire (1969)
• Prez: Homage to Lester Young (1994)
• Mad Boys (1997)
• I. Another. The Space Between: Selected Poems (2004)

Biography

• Diana Krall: The Language of Love (2002)