U.S.American-born Warren Tallman (1921-1994) moved to Vancouver in the 1950s to take up a position as a professor at University of British Columbia where he remained until his retirement in 1987. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he mentored several Canadian poets who made up the TISH movement and the Downtown poets group. Tallman was a prolific recordist who made audio recordings of many West Coast poetry readings and other events. Tallman is also author of the volumes Godawful Streets of Man (Coach House, 1978) and In the Midst (Talon, 1992). With Donald Allen, he edited The Poetics of the New American Poetry (Grove, 1973).