CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5964
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Title:
Reading in BC Collection
Source Collection ID:
MsC 199
Source Collection Description:
Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. It consists of the recordings of Canadian and American writers, mostly poets, reading poems, talking, being interviewed, participating in panel discussions, and so on. Most of the recordings were made in BC, but there are some made elsewhere in Canada or the USA. Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SFU Library
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
Sub Series Title:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
UBC Poetry Festival: Avison, Olson, Creeley, Duncan, Ginsberg, Whalen, and Levertov on August 9, 1963 #46a
Title Source:
J-card and inventory
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Whalen, Philip
Dates:
1923-2002
Name:
Avison, Margaret
Dates:
1918-2007
Name:
Duncan, Robert
Dates:
1919-1988
Name:
Ginsberg, Allen
Dates:
1926-1997
Name:
Olson, Charles
Dates:
1910-1970
Name:
Creeley, Robert
Dates:
1926-2005
Name:
Levertov, Denise
Dates:
1923-1997
Name:
Kiyooka, Roy
Dates:
1926-1994
Name:
Keyes, John
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Wah, Fred
Dates:
1939-
Notes:
In the inventory it states that he is a Donor and we are not sure what it means
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Very Good
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:45:23
Size:
29.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:20:55
Size:
13.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1963-08-09
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card and inventory
LOCATION
Address:
6398 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Venue:
UBC
Latitude:
49.2586
Longitude:
-123.2452
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Creeley presenting Zukofsky bibliography
140 Audience question – gestalt therapy in relation to poetics – discussion on contexts of being
170 Creeley – reality as extensive verbal construct – need to return to our bodies – often by the agencies of this order of help ie psychologists
200 Ginsberg on keywords used by members of this discussion which reveal a definite experience of being here in the universe, in a place: field, energy, eternity, form-place, natural harmony, go for broke… samenesses and differences
290 Dangers of static terminologies
340 Creeley recounts story of a reading in the mid-west. After the reading, a young man who was deeply moved by the second to last poem, comes up to the reader and asks this question “Was that a real poem or did you just make it up yourself?” Creeley’s question is “How shall we measure what we do?”
360 Discussion on form and content – Creeley stating a context in which the issue of some occasion is the means by which a poem occurs as opposed to a putting on of form like a coat. Levertov – form is never more than the revelation of content as opposed to Creeley’s “Form is never more than the extension of content”.
395 Levertov – the Elizabethan sonnet
470 Avison – the ‘machine’ and ‘form’
510 Levertov – “You don’t know what you think till you see what you do.”
Creeley – “There’s no occasion other than what is, as is literally now.”
580 Creeley’s letter to Olson re ‘form-content’
670 Thought preceding poem? – Form preceding occasion? – Wyatt’s “They Flee From Me”
725 Roy Kiyooka – form in painting – Rubens
765 Creeley – What do we mean by form in a poem? – How do we know when it’s a poem? – What is a poem?
820 Creeley – “What measure exists to know what a poem is? “ this is not a concern while you’re writing – story about Robert Graves being halfway through a poem for The New Yorker
890 John Keyes relates story about Franz Kline, destroying form, destroying himself- argument ensues involving Keyes, Creeley, Ginsberg, Kiyooka
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Vancouver Poetry festival, UBC, Vancouver, August 9, 1963 (side 1 of 2) Avison, Creeley, Duncan?, Ginsberg, Levertov, Whalen, Olson
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