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'''Frankland Wilmot Davey''', [[Royal Society of Canada|FRSC]] (born April 19, 1940) is a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[poet]] and [[scholar]].
Born in [[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], he grew up in the Fraser Valley village of [[Abbotsford, British Columbia|Abbotsford]]. In 1957 he enrolled at the [[University of British Columbia]] where, in 1961, shortly after beginning MA studies, he became one of the founding editors of the influential and contentious poetry newsletter ''[[TISH]]''. In the spring of 1962 he won the university's Macmillan Prize for poetry, and published the poetry collection ''D-Day and After'', the first of the Tish group's numerous publications. In 1963 he began teaching at Canadian Services College [[Royal Roads Military College]] in [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]]. He began doctoral studies at the [[University of Southern California]] in the summer of 1965, completing in 1968. After serving as Writer-in-Residence at [[Montreal]]'s [[Sir George Williams University]], he joined the English Department of [[York University]] in [[Toronto]] in 1970, becoming department chair in 1986. He was appointed in 1990 to the Carl F. Klinck Chair of Canadian Literature at the [[University of Western Ontario]] in [[London, Ontario|London]]. From 1975-1992 he was one of the most active editors of the [[Coach House Press]]. He currently lives in [[Strathroy, Ontario|Strathroy]], [[Ontario]].<ref>http://publish.uwo.ca/~fdavey/c/autonew2.pdf.</ref>
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