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Toronto: Coach House, 1973. Self Wrappers. Good. 8vo, pp. unnumbered, b/w photos. Poems about Canadian and U.S. poets including Ed Dorn, Earle Birney, Brian Fawcett, Robert Duncan, Stan Persky, Fred Wah, Al Purdy, Anselm Hollo, David Bromige and Margaret Randall, among many others; this copy is inscribed and signed by the author to Randall ("for Meg, with love and chocolate"). Wrappers sunned, foxed, edgeworn, page edges foxed, lower fore-edge corner bumped.

Erin Ontario: Press Porcepic, 1974. First edition. Wraps. Fine/No dust jacket. 12mo. 136pp. Illus. Association copy of the influential Canadian poet McCaffery's scarce second book. Includes a brief postscript in which McCaffery outlines his experimental poetics. Illustrated card wrappers. McCaffery to Jerome Rothenberg. dated 1975. Fine Copy.

Cheltenham. Staplebound wraps. Very Good. n.d. Wide 12mo, 20 pp. Issue devoted to Canadian poetry. Wrappers a bit sunned and edgeworn, corners lightly bumped.

Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1971. Wraps. Very Good. Wide 12mo, 100 pp. Head of spine and corners lightly bumped, wrappers handled, rear cover and last leaf beginning to separate from staples.

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1948. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. Inscribed by author, two-inch stain on back cover, slightly discolored along top front cover and spine.

Vancouver, 1965. First Printing. Corner-Stapled. Good. A Poetry Newsletter. Folio, 12 pp. Folded twice, stamped and addressed. Edges and corners bumped/creased, light soiling to outer pages, staple marks at fold. This seminal Canadian small press publication includes contributions by David McFadden, Colin Stuart,Gerard Malanga, David Dawson,Daphne Buckle,Maxine Gadd, Bob Hogg and Dan McLeod.

Vancouver, BC: Tish, 1965. First edition. Staplebound wraps. Very Good/No dust jacket. Staplebound mimeographed sheets fastened with a staple. Contributors include: Bob Hogg, Dan McLeod,David McFadden, Colin Stuart, Geralrd Malanga,David Dawson, Terrence J. Fletcher, Daphne Buckle, and Maxine Gadd. Staplebound mimeographed sheets fastened with a staple.

Vancouver, 1966. First Printing. Corner-Stapled. Good. A Poetry Newsletter. Folio, 12pp. Folded twice, stamped and addressed. Edges and corners bumped/creased, light soiling to outer pages, staple marks at fold. Contributors include:Warren Tallman, Bill Bissett, Nachshen, and George Bowering. This issue includes the entire essay ROBERT CREELEY'S RIMETHOUGHT. By Warren Tallman.

Vancouver, BC: Tish, 1966. First edition. Staplebound wraps. Very Good/No dust jacket. Important Canadian mimeo poetry bulletin. Contributors include: George Bowering,Brian Nachshen, Warren Tallman, Bill Bissett. Includes Tallman's essay "Robert Creeley's Rimethought" in it's entirety.

Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1975. First edition. Wraps. Very Good/No dust jacket. 8vo. 431pp. Wraps. Covers has several creases. Edges shows wear. Interior clean, tight. TISH was a Canadian poetry newsletter founded by student-poets at the University of British Columbia in 1961. The publication was edited by a number of Vancouver poets until 1969. The newsletter's poetics were built on those of writers associated with North Carolina's Black Mountain College experiment. Contributing writers included George Bowering, 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 Tish Group also drew inspiration from Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson and Jack Spicer and Jason Lee Wiens. In 2001, George Fetherling wrote in The Georgia Straight that "the journal [TISH] started by George Bowering, Frank Davey, David Dawson, Jamie Reid and Fred Wah is probably the most… Read More