CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
7065
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Title:
Warren Tallman Fonds
Source Collection ID:
MsC 26
Source Collection Description:
Warren Tallman (7 November 1921 - 1 July 1994) was an American-born poetry professor who inspired the Canadian Tish movement and influenced the mid-20th century poetry scene in Canada. Born in Seattle attended the University of California, Berkeley on the G.I. Bill. There he met Ellen King; they married in 1951. In 1956, the Tallmans accepted teaching jobs in the English department at the University of British Columbia, where they helped Earle Birney and Roy Daniells to organize the creative writing department. In 1963, they hosted a poetry conference attended by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, and Philip Whalen. The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was there that Jack Spicer gave some of his now legendary lectures. Two years later, they held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California. Sometimes criticized by Canadian literary nationalists for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch plant, Tallman embraced the Black Mountain school approach to poetry, and also was influenced from the Beats and other New American Poets. The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching papers, personal and financial records, material pertaining to the Vancouver Poetry Centre, photographs, audiotapes, ephemera, etc.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SFU Library
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
Sub Series Title:
Warren Tallman Fonds
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Warren Tallman's compilation and introduction of poetry readings by William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle, Adeena Karasick, bpNichol, Bill Bissett, and Basil Bunting recorded for Eli Mandel at Buffalo – S.U.N.Y. University on May 11, 1987
Title Source:
J-card and Recording
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Doolittle, Hilda
Dates:
1886-1961
Notes:
Known as H.D.
As Warren Tallman indicates at 27:20 on the first side, H.D. reads "This Is One of the Great Privileges of Our Life" poem by H.D.
Name:
Karasick, Adeena
Dates:
1965-
Name:
Tallman, Warren
Dates:
1921-1994
Name:
Williams, William Carlos
Dates:
1883-1963
Notes:
Here are this list of poems which William Carlos Williams reads from "The Desert Music and Other Poems"; poems he wrote after he'd had a stroke:
"The Descent"
"To Daphne and Virginia"
"The Orchestra"
"For Eleanor and Bill Monahan"
"The Yellow Flower"
Name:
Bissett, Bill
Dates:
1939-
Notes:
Bill Bissett reading at Warren Tallman's poetry class on November 24, 1986 in Vancouver
Name:
Bunting, Basil
Dates:
1900-1985
Notes:
Basil Bunting reading "Cantos 4" at UBC on November 30, 1970.
His part is not audible
Name:
Mandel, Eli
Dates:
1922-1992
Notes:
Warren Tallman is recording this tape for him
Name:
Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)
Dates:
1944-1988
Notes:
bp reading a part of Meteorology in Warren Tallman's class at UBC on January 26, 1971
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Sound Quality:
Poor
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:
T00:47:59
Size:
50.1 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:48:02
Size:
50.5 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1970-11-30
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Recording
Notes:
Basil Bunting reading "Cantos 4" at UBC
Date:
1986-11-24
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Recording
Notes:
Bill Bissett reading at Warren Tallman's poetry class in Vancouver
Date:
1971-01-26
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Recording
Notes:
BP reading a part of Meteorology in Warren Tallman's class at UBC
Date:
1987-05-11
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Recording
LOCATION
Address:
Buffalo, NY 14260, United States
Venue:
Buffalo – S.U.N.Y. (University at Buffalo)
Latitude:
42.9533
Longitude:
-78.8181
Notes:
Warren Tallmen indicates that he is in Buffalo; We assume it refers to the University at Buffalo in New York. The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly referred to as the University at Buffalo or SUNY Buffalo.
Address:
Vancouver, District of North Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Latitude:
49.2604
Longitude:
-123.1145
Notes:
Bill Bissett reading at Warren Tallman's poetry class on November 24, 1986 in Vancouver
Address:
University of British Columbia, Long Trail, University of British Columbia, Electoral Area A, District of North Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, V6S 0A9, Canada
Venue:
University of British Columbia
Latitude:
49.2600
Longitude:
-123.2469
Notes:
BP reading a part of Meteorology in Warren Tallman's class at UBC on January 26, 1971 and Basil Bunting reading "Cantos 4" on November 30, 1970.
CONTENT
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
The quality of sound increases in the parts which Warren Tallman speaks
Warren Tallman held a temporary teaching appointment at SUNY Buffalo for the academic year 1987-1988, working alongside his good friend Robert Creeley. (Creeley was faculty at SUNY Buffalo from 1966-2003 and Tallman visited him several times, though this was his only teaching appointment there).
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