Jamie Reid (Canadian poet)

Jamie Reid ( born April 10, 1941 in Timmins, Ontario ) is a Canadian poet, writer and art activist.

Life

Jamie Reid was born in Timmins, Ontario and came in adulthood to the west coast of Canada. According to some references Reid is not only as a writer but also as a co-founder along with George Bowering, Frank Davey and Fred Wah to the men of the first hour at the influential underground magazine TISH in Vancouver in 1961.

Jamie Reid published his first collection of poems, The Man Whose Path What on Fire, 1969. Shortly thereafter, he joined as a convinced Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Canada and set for an extended period of time writing poems about the political activism back because he 's According to him personally have not found a way to translate the language of politics in his poems.

Only in the late 1980s, Reid turned back the poetry and cultural criticism to give a specific interest towards jazz expressed in many of his works, such as his homage towards Lester Young, Prez: Homage to Lester Young (1994, 2010) or the biography of Diana Krall, Diana Krall: the Language of Love (2002 ). After all, there is thus a 25-year gap between his first volume of poetry, and his later books.

Married to the painter Carol Reid since the 1960s, his home in the north of Vancouver continues to be a hub of literary activism and other artistic actions of smaller journalistic experiments such as the local avant-garde magazine with international appeal, DaDaBaBy, or commemorative writings in honor of literary figures. In 2004 he published a biography of the musician and actor Chris Isaak.

Works

• The Man Whose Path What on Fire. 1969
• Prez: Homage to Lester Young. (1994, 2010)
• Mad Boys. 1997
• I. Another. The Space Between: Selected Poems. 2004
• Genesis. , 2005.
• St. Ink: selected poems. 2008
• Homages. 2009

• Diana Krall: The Language of Love. 2002
• Chris Isaak: wicked games. Kingston, Ontario in 2004.