CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6947
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Title:
Fred Wah Fonds
Source Collection ID:
MsC 17
Source Collection Description:
The Fred Wah fonds collects materials from Vancouver-based poet Fred Wah, who was appointed as Canadau2019s fifth Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2011 and has published 25 books between 1965 and 2016. Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939 and grew up in the West Kootenay region. His Chinese and Scots-Irish ethnic background and identity have a significant influence on his literary work. Wah completed an undergraduate degree in Literature and Music at the University of British Columbia, where he became a founding editor of the TISH newsletter in 1961, and has taught at Selkirk College, the David Thompson University Centre, and the University of Calgary. The fonds contains a number of interviews, conversations, lectures, and public readings recorded between the years 1976 and 2006, featuring local and national literary and media figures such as Lorna Crozier, bpNichol, Daphne Marlatt, and Stuart McLean.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SFU Library
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
Sub Series Title:
Fred Wah Fonds
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
bp Nichol reading from The Martyrology at SFU on July 8, 1983 Tape 3 of 3 - DUPLICATE 2 of 2
Title Source:
J-card and Recording
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
Name:
Bowering, Angela
Name:
Wah, Fred
Dates:
1939-
Name:
Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)
Dates:
1944-1988
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
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:
T00:49:44
Size:
54.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:49:45
Size:
49.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1983-07-08
Type:
Production Date
Source:
j-card
LOCATION
Address:
8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Venue:
Simon Fraser University
Latitude:
49.2767
Longitude:
-122.9178
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Begins reading “chain one”, through “chain two”, From Book 5 then “chain seven” which is a particular reading of Book 1 of The Martyrology
217 Begins at “chain one” again, Shifts at the bottom of page 2 to “chain three”
578 Recording ends
Two 000 From “Deconstruction” – “driving east on 60 through Algonguin Park” (The Martyrology Book 5)
044 From Book 6, second book – “The book of hours”
068 The first hour. “Met a physic on the road…”
134 “The Birth-Death Cycle” From “The Book of Hours” – hours 12, 13 and 14
138 “hour twelve” “order/sweet seduction of that odour”
166 “hour 13” “briefly the heart does break”
188 “hour 14” “Passages from death into life”
234 Beginning of the fifth book of Book 6
“In the Plunket Hotel the stairs creak all night”
297 bp, George Bowering, Roy Miki and Sharon Thesen talk about the connection of bp’s work, and the idea of family, with the sacred
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Side A and B contain readings from select chains from Book 5 of The Martyrology. Side B contains a long conversation between bpNichol, Bowering, and numerous other unidentified speakers.
Type:
Related Version
Note:
This tape is the duplicate of Fred Wah fonds "bpNichol reading from The Martyrology at SFU on July 8, 1983 Tape 3 of 3 - DUPLICATE 1 of 2" (SWALLOW ID 6945) and from Readings in BC collection: bpNichol reading from "The Martyrology" at SFU on July 8, 1983 part 3 of 3 #415 (SWALLOW ID 5665). Original not determined
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