CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
7164
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:
Sensasound 90: Toronto Sound Poetry
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Tallman, Warren
Dates:
1921-1994
Notes:
This is Warren Tallman collection
Name:
Bissett, Bill
Dates:
1939-
Name:
Kemp, Penny
Dates:
1944-
Name:
Barreto-Rivera, Rafael
Dates:
1944-
Name:
Karasick, Adeena
Dates:
1965-
Name:
Allen, Lillian
Dates:
1951-
Name:
McCaffery, Steve
Dates:
1947-
Name:
Dutton, Paul
Dates:
1943-
Name:
Joseph, Clifton
Dates:
1957-
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:
T00:47:05
Size:
59.9 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:48:26
Size:
64.5 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1990
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
Toronto, Golden Horseshoe, Ontario, Canada
Latitude:
43.6540
Longitude:
-79.3858
CONTENT
NOTES
Note:
In "ANERCA: woMANIFESTivO," Adeena Karasick writes, "In 1988, Kedrick [James] and I moved for a year to Montreal where, connecting with both the renegade English and French poetry and music scenes, we organized SENSASOUND—a Sound Poetry Fest
in both Montreal at McGill and Toronto (at the Rivoli) where, together with bill bissett, Steve McCaffery, Lillian Allen, Christopher Dewdney, Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, we tried to revivify a sense of performance in poetry within an increasingly sterile environment" (22).
See: To Breathe Poetry Among the Neighbours: Two Essays on Anerca, a Journal of Experimental Writing (1985-1990), available in pdf format from library.buffalo.edu.
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