TISH

TISH was a Canadian lyric underground literary journal in the form of a newsletter, which was founded by students of literature at the University of British Columbia in 1961 and was operated by a singular of poets from the greater Vancouver area until 1969. This newsletter poems based on the works of those writers who were associated with North Carolina's Black Mountain College experiment.

Among the authors included George Bowering contributor, Fred Wah, Frank Davey, Daphne Marlatt, David Cull, Carol Bolt, Dan McLeod, Robert Hogg, Jamie Reid and Lionel Kearns. Influenced by the poetry theorist Warren Tallman, the group of TISH poets also drew its inspiration from Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson and Jack Spicer.

TISH should edited the springboard for a number of other publications such as the alternative newspaper The Georgia Straight, edited by Dan McLeod, the poem newsletter SUM (1963-1965), edited by Frank Wah, the magazine of the long poem Imago (1964-1974), by Bowering, the Journal of the theory of writing Open Letter (1965 to present), edited Davey, the prose journal Periodics ( 1977-1981 ), edited by Marlatt and Paul de Barros, as well as the online journal Swift Current ( from 1984 to 1990 ), edited by Davey and Wah, which was described by them as the first e- magazine in the world.

According to George Fetherling in The Georgia Straight TISH was a special significance: " The journal started by George Bowering, Frank Davey, David Dawson, Jamie Reid and Fred Wah is probably the most influential literary magazine ever produced in Canada, of Greater Significance than even Preview or First statement, the two did Brought poetic modernism to the country in the 1940s. "