Jamie Reid (April 10, 1941 – June 25, 2015)[1] was a Canadian writer, activist, and arts organizer.
Reid co-founded the influential poetry journal TISH in Vancouver in 1961 with George Bowering, Frank Davey, David Dawson, and Fred Wah.
A short time later he joined the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)[3] and stopped writing for 25 years in favour of political activism "because [he] didn’t have a way of working the language of politics into the language of poetry.
"[4][5] Reid returned to poetry and cultural criticism in the late 1980s, with a special interest in jazz expressed in many of his works.
Reid also edited and contributed to the intergenerational Vancouver literary journal Tads (1996-2001) through which Reid, George Bowering, Renee Rodin, and George Stanley mentored younger writers, including Thea Bowering, Wayde Compton, Reg Johanson, Ryan Knighton, Jason le Heup, Cath Morris, Chris Turnbull, and Karina Vernon.