Frank Davey

Frank Davey was born in Vancouver on April 19, 1940. More recently, he served as the Carl F. Klinck Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario; and was the first to hold this chair. He has also taught at York University in Toronto. Davey attended the University of British Columbia and was a founding editor of TISH, the avant-garde poetry and poetics magazine of the 1960s. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. A prolific and highly-esteemed author of numerous books and scholarly articles on Canadian literary criticism and poetry, Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind them, and the struggles between different groups in society -- racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, and economic. Davey has also been the editor of Talonbooks’s New Canadian Criticism Series. Frank Davey retired as professor at the University of Western Ontario in 2005. A conference—“Poetics and Public Culture in Canada”—was held in his honour from March 3 to 7 in that year with several scholarly and literary publications doing special issues in his honour including Open Letter and Rampike.

Appearances at BookFestWindsor:
November 6, 2 - 3:45 p.m. (Wilkinson)