CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6296
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:
BP Nichol Reading from The Undercover Country, #297, #298, #299
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Title Note:
Liner notes: see the photo in the material description
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Nichol, B.P.
Dates:
1944-1988
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Track Configuration:
2 track
Playback Mode:
Stereo
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
Tape Brand:
SFU
Sound Quality:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
2 (stereo)
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:46:49
Size:
46.8 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
2 (stereo)
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:47:34
Size:
46.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
#297
Side Track No. Comments
One Autumn (Fox Fires flaming…)
Summer (Blues on Green)
Autumn (Ancient Maps of / Real World)
Late Autumn-Early Winter (Beginning. And. End)
Late Winter-Spring (Letters from a rainy season)
Two Early Autumn (We went to the forest…)
Autumn (Sliding from sight…)
Early Winter (last poem / or the language folds in…)
After Christmas (always a season / bitter…)
Mid-Winter (having risen from the bath…)
January
#298
Side Track No. Comments
Too (continued)
Mid-Winter
February (the river the streets are to become…)
Spring (clarity / distance / claritas…)
Half (in process at time of recording)
Summer (owl in the wood / wouldja come…)
(all that summer / hot…) absorbed into MONO tones
(the humber empties out into the lake…)
(sometimes the humber is not the humber…)
Other rivers (kaministiqua and red)
Late summer-some letters
Letter 1 (2 drafts) for john & joanne
Letter 2 for bill & martina
Letter 3 for david & ruth
Letter 4 for wayn & Juli (later realized this was for vic & sarah)
WON (One short poem at time of recording)
One / to have won something…
End of Undiscovered Country
BLUES (for Bill & Martina)
#299
Side Track No. Comments
Dark Night / Secret Room
Lunar Eclipse (for Rob)
No title: Rebuttal
Varinheim
Fifth Journey
Motherlove and other inventions
Far Well (for Christine Baumann)
From DN/SR
The End of Etc.
“how am I able to saw what I would…”
The Room (for Margaret A)
Peace (for Chris Baumann)
Love Song
One for the Gideon Music
2nd Poem (for Dace)
The Ordinary Man (for Dave A)
From ML & OI
Queen’s for a Day
No title: Evil
No title: Inevitable
Postcard Between (for Margaret A)
Moonshot (for Dace)
The New Improved Atlas of the World
After Hokusai
A Poem by Bill Bissett
22
Two Songs
The Junctions
Night Thots
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
The first two minutes of the first side of #297 are missing. It starts from Autumn (Fox Fires flaming…)
NOTES
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