When Tish Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's "Most Influential Literary Magazine"

by Frank Davey

In the early 1960s, a group of students at UBC started a magazine called Tish. The name was purposefully an anagram of shit, in order to demonstrate their youthful and iconoclastic attitude. In many ways, Tish, and its editors, became the clear break from older Canadian poets and styles. At the heart of the magazine, and the "movement," was Frank Davey. And it is Davey who has written this definitive history. Davey has organized the material...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550229583
• ISBN13: 9781550229585
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"